15 Gorgeous Photos Celebrating Micronesia’s Yap Day
MARCH 1-3 was Yap Day, the biggest cultural celebration in Yap and its most colorful days of the year, with traditional dances, crafts, tattoos, competitions, and demonstrations in ceremonial dress. Everything Yapese — Micronesia’s most intact traditional culture — is celebrated. On March 1, the 49th annual Yap Day kicked off, with a conch-shell blowing, a parade, a presentation of colors, a blessing, stone money transfer and presentation, plus opening remarks and speeches by members of traditional and governmental leadership.