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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2725007, member: 4910&quot;]The famous &quot;stone money&quot; of the Pacific Island of Yap get their feature film appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1954 Warner Brothers film &quot;His Majesty O&#039;Keefe&quot; is about an Irish-American adventurer David O&#039;Keefe, who lands in the South Pacific Island of Yap in 1870, sets up a company to employ the residents to harvest coconuts and produce copra (coconut oil), and later becomes a &quot;king&quot; of the island.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_hismajestyokeefe_king.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&quot;King&quot; O&#039;Keefe on his throne</p><p><br /></p><p>The film stars Burt Lancaster as David O&#039;Keefe and was mostly filmed in Fiji. It is based on a true story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Examples of the famous Yap stone &quot;money&quot; (sacred stones or &quot;Fei&quot; stones) are shown along with some generic gold coin props.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_hismajestyokeefe_stone.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yap Island sacred stone &quot;money&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>O&#039;Keefe visits the Island of Palau where the Yap natives mine and manufacture the stones.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_hismajestyokeefe_quarry.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Yap Islanders manufacturing a sacred stone</p><p><br /></p><p>Some traditional prop gold coins also appear in the film.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_hismajestyokeefe_coins.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Money on the table</p><p>The coins have Chinese and Western writing on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The film has been added to my website under &quot;Coins in Movies&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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