Wild International
YouTube: Zack De La Rocha - One Day As A Lion
Australia's True Colors
YouTube: Rock Art
Australia Forms Rock Art Reserves
September 25, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald:
Sign on the dotted line saves spectacular rock art
Yesterday the federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, and traditional indigenous owners signed an agreement at the base of a spectacular gallery of rock art, establishing the first of two new conservation reserves on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory.
Known as the Warddeken and Djelk Indigenous Protected Areas, the reserves span 20,432 square kilometres, stretching from high rocky country to the islands off northern Australia. They include sandstone gorges, pristine rivers, tropical savannah and coastal wetlands.
Under the agreements negotiated with 137 Aboriginal groups, traditional owners will manage the reserves helped by indigenous rangers in full-time jobs paid for by the Federal Government.
I didn't have the time to locate a decent gallery of Aboriginal rock art, so let Google be your guide.
Alaskan Medicine Men
Ka-Sh-Ak, the Monkeyman. Skan-Doo [Skundoo], notorious old medicene [medicine] man. Ind-A-Yanek (Swatka), the famous Indian guide.
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More California Redwoods
Wawona Tree - Tunnel completed in 1881 - fell down in 1969
Chandelier Tree - Leggett, Mendocino County, CA
Coolidge Tree - 48 miles North of Willits, CA
Shrine Tree - Myers Flat, CA
Revisiting this interesting collection of thumbnailed large images.
Alamedainfo.com
In the Year of the Pig Fish
Via SEM (scanning electron microscope)
Head of a fruitfly
Compound eye of a fruitfly
More G.I. Jones
G. I. Jones -- S.E. Nigerian Art and Culture
Plastic Life
Vincent Bousserez on Flickr
Life-Size Sculpture
Ammonite
Spinosaurus
Giant Nuts Strike Ukraine
Soviet Food Posters
Soviet Food Posters (long page, scroll scroll scroll)
Shine
YouTube: Collective Soul
Great Basin Caves
The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. Its boundaries depend on how it is defined. Generally it is the area shown in the map below.
Duck decoys from Lovelock Cave
I have been inside Lovelock Cave. The archaeological materials have been removed, but it is still a magical place. My favorite cave.
Lovelock Cave, despite years of destruction, is one of the most important sites in the history of North American archaeology.
The Great Basin BLM Collections
Big Navaho
Big Navaho in Native Dress, Blankets Hanging in Background 1879
Billy Shumkey Holding Pipe 1900
Blackfoot Man, Shorty White Grass Dec 29 1891
From an excellent collection of glass negatives of Indians. 9061 titles collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology and residing in the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian.
Glass Negatives of Indians
