Micronesia
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 29 objects from Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean. These date from 1875 to 1951. This small but diverse collection includes interesting examples of body armour, a selection of weapons, bark cloth, costume, fish hooks, a necklace, a comb and shell money. From Kiribati there are two suits of coconut-fibre armour, a blowfish helmet and 11 weapons embedded with shark's teeth, which were extremely popular as souvenirs. The collection also includes several ceremonial tapa cloths from Palau. Oceania is a geographic region consisting of many different countries and surrounding islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is generally defined by its subregions of Australasia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. Micronesia is comprised of hundreds of small islands, which are politically divided into eight nation states and territories – Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Island, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau and Wake Island.
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