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A woman in a colorful floral print dress sits on a chair in an open-air house in the Caroline Islands. She is supervising a young woman sitting in front of a loom, working on a weaving project. Another young girl is sitting in the background, winding yarn around a warping board. Drapes that line the open windows have been pulled up to reveal the tropical forest surrounding the house.

CCG Year of Engagement Podcast #2: Warp and Weft of Yap’s Outer Islands

Posted by: Meg Nicholas

AFC Folklife Specialists Nancy Groce and Meg Nicholas chat with Neil Mellen and Modesta Yangmog, from the CCG project, "Warp and Weft of Yap's Outer Islands: Backstrap Weaving in Micronesia." The post includes photographs from the project, interview excerpts, and a link to the full interview, in the second episode of a special subseries of the Folklife Today podcast.

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