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| In Palau, life during this time had not changed much from a century earlier. Here a group of Palauan men sit in front of a house next to two European traders. The small building to the left is a spirit house, used when people wished to communicate with the dead. By the end of German rule in 1914, Palau had begun its rapid march to modernization. |
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(Georg Fritz Collection, MARC)