Unknown Burial Beads
Last year, the Guam Cultural Repository merged to become part of the Guam Museum (which in turn falls under the Department of CHamoru Affairs). While the facility has been open and active for several years now, many people are still unfamiliar with its genesis and purpose. For many decades, the Guam Museum acted as Guam's depository, holding a variety of historical or culturally significant materials for the public good. Since the 1970s, this has included archeological collections and also the remains from burials disturbed by construction. As a result the Guam Museum has grown since World War II, to a massive collection of several hundred thousand items, which break down into different categories, ranging from archives, to cultural and educational artifacts and finally things held for the people of Guam in our depository/repository function. In the storage annex for the Guam Museum we have close to 2,000 boxes of artifacts, soil samples, project files a...