Micronesian ethnic group indigenous to Yap, known for a distinctive caste-influenced social order, stone-money (rai) exchange, and (in later centuries) the sawei tribute network extending across the Caroline Islands.
Not an ending: the Yapese remain the people of Yap State. The map hands off to the colonial Micronesias and, from 1986, the FSM.
Ethnographic and historical study of Yapese social/political organization and its change over time.