{"id":208190,"date":"2015-07-24T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=208190"},"modified":"2015-07-24T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:25:53","slug":"traditional-carvers-shape-yap-games-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/traditional-carvers-shape-yap-games-trophies\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional carvers shape Yap Games trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YAP, Micronesia<\/strong>\u2014A group of master craftsmen on Yap are using cultural skills and traditional designs to create trophies for winning athletes in that Micronesian state\u2019s sports tournament.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-208190 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/traditional-carvers-shape-yap-games-trophies\/yap-pix-1\/'>Yap pix 1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-208193'>\n\t\t\t\tA group of master craftsmen on Yap has carved \u201cCarolina Proa\u201d trophies for the 5th Annual Yap Games. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/traditional-carvers-shape-yap-games-trophies\/yap-pix-2\/'>Yap pix 2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-208194'>\n\t\t\t\tMaster craftsmen carve \u201cCarolina Proa\u201d trophies. \n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/traditional-carvers-shape-yap-games-trophies\/yap-pix-3\/'>Yap pix 3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-208195'>\n\t\t\t\tA complete canoe model decorated with red and black paint is for gold medalists. Those painted black and naturally varnished are for silver and bronze winners, respectively. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The 5th Annual Yap Games opened to a large crowd in mid-July at the Yap Sports Complex Gymnasium. Nearly 900 athletes, representing 10 municipalities across Yap, are competing in a dozen separate sports. Among the most popular are basketball, soccer, and wrestling, according to Paul Lane, director of Yap\u2019s Sports Council.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers have partnered with Waa\u2019gey, a group organizing efforts of local carvers, to developed distinctive traditionally inspired trophies. These symbols of reward and recognition are modeled after the \u201cCarolina Proa,\u201d a complex all wood outrigger canoe design perfected\u2014and made famous\u2014 by Micronesians<\/p>\n<p>A complete canoe model decorated with red and black paint is for gold medalists. Those painted black and naturally varnished are for silver and bronze winners, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Waa\u2019gey is a community-based organization that uses traditional skills to confront the social, economic and environmental challenges faced by the people of Micronesia\u2019s most remote outer islands. The group pursues preservation of native technologies and arts both to protect our distinctive Island identity, and to solve specific problems relating to import dependency, urbanization, climate change, and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Among the carvers directing work on these unique trophies are Carlos Yarofaireg, Henry Mailuw, Johnny Retiglur, and Larry Raigetal, all of Lamotrek Atoll. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YAP, Micronesia\u2014A group of master craftsmen on Yap are using cultural skills and traditional designs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":208193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6164,6165,6166,6167],"class_list":["post-208190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-annual-yap-games","tag-carolina-proa","tag-paul-lane","tag-sports-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}