The most traditional island state in the western Pacific, Yap, still uses stone money for some land transfers and to resolve clan disputes.

Members of the Yapese Dance Troupe perform an adult stick dance at Lebanon Senior Center luau on June 12. The troupe originates from the island of Yap, in the Federates States of Micronesia, and ...

Yapese people travelled across the 400 km of open water to Palau limestone Rock Islands where they quarried their megalithic disk money. ... The Mangyol Stone Money Bank or Dancing Ground also known ...

It has promised to make Yapese culture a selling point to Chinese tourists, and has said that in addition to paying for infrastructure such as a hospital and roads, it will fund a foundation run ...

Six students from Southern High in Santa Rita got the chance to immerse themselves in the Yapese culture during a recent music and cultural exchange. During the four-day tour, both ...