Notes


Image widths

Object image and timeline - 250

Who,What, Where Image - 160

 

Colors

In Paint, GIF to 24-color BMP to PNG to get the right colors

Background - FFFEECC; 255, 238, 204

Border - 660000; 102, 0, 0

Timeline box - CC9933; 204, 153, 51

Ocean - CCFFFF, 204, 255, 255

Desert - CC9900, 204, 153, 0

Savannah - FFCC00, 255, 204, 0

Jungle - 66CC00, 102, 204, 0

 

Dogon carver Picture

http://www.designthatmatters.org/field-journal/archives/000057.html

Iron Smelting picture and information

http://www.der.org/films/inagina.html

Drilling beads picture

(http://www.womensworkbw.com/osb.htm)

San tribeman picture

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/San_tribesman.jpg

Ostrich Eggs picture

http://picasaweb.google.com/GScoles/SouthAfricanSafari/photo#5140830912629280706

Design an adinkra cloth online at the Liverpool Museum

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/humanworld/adinkra/game.asp

Lesson Plans, West African Civilizations, 700 - 1600

http://www.crbs.umd.edu/crossingborders/ai2006/lessonplans.html

Adinkra cloth history

http://cat.conncoll.edu/projects/adinkra/history.htm

Cultural definition information from Introduction to Sociology/Society (from wikibooks Open Textbooks collection)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology/Society

Wearing Adinkra Photo

An official of the court of the Asantehene, king of the Asante people of Ghana, wearing an old adinkra cloth, Kumase 1997.(c) D.Clarke

http://www.adireafricantextiles.com/adinkraintroduction.htm 

Adinkra history

http://www.korepedia.com/textiles/adinkra-cloth.html

Ghana geography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana

Adinkra stamping photo

http://www.marshall.edu/akanart/adinkracloth.html

Calabash gourd origins

http://www.pnas.org/content/102/51/18315.abstract

Turkana Girl Picture

Turkana: Kenya's Nomads of the Jade Sea by Nigel Pratt, 1997, Harry N. Abrams, NY

Ndebele Market picture

http://ourlives-at-windandsea.info/42601.html

Powder puff making

http://www.iwf.de/iwf/res/mkat/others/bp/04000021139920000000.pdf

Picture of Czech seed beads

http://www.alchemyandice.com/Seed-Beads-Czech-Japanese-Matsuno-and-Miyuki-p-1-c-685.html

Lavendar Croton picture cGeoff Nichols, Lavendar Croton information

http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantcd/voteplant.php

Picture of San Woman and jewelry

http://www.theartofafrica.co.za/serv/everydaylife1.jsp

Powderpuff information

http://www.kuru.co.bw/trad_items.htm

http://www.iwf.de/iwf/do/mkat/details.aspx?Signatur=E+2113

http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantcd/voteplant.php

 

 

CyberTracker and San

http://keynet.blogs.com/networks/ICT%20and%20Poverty%20-%20The%20San%20Bushmen.doc

 

Pastoral Culture

Education of Nomadic People, Caroline Dyer

http://books.google.com/books?id=G_Pwekq_47AC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=turkana+culture&source=web&ots=EXCcMENgwA&sig=xDTQ-ZmDf7vWBsaGFsGkUNrqm58&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA141,M1

 

Things to check

Ask Ruth how old the Dogon door is.

Ask Ruth about history of our Ostrich shell beads