Field Research

http://you.travel/Kandangan

I leave tomorrow for a speaking engagement in Kandangan. Above you will find information and a video about electronic media and tradition created by Edmund Carpenter.

Genealogical Patterns

I found the following patterns today while sifting through the vault. The only information that I have about them is listed below. Feel free to post any new information that you might find.

What is ikat?

I found this flickr stream while conducting my research: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kainikat/with/3496188101/

I am trying to find out more about ikat. Please post everything that you find in the comments below.

Check this Out!

ONLINE INTERACTIVE PATTERN MAKER

You can load any image and create a pattern.

Note Under Office Door

I arrived at work today to find the this note slipped under my door in a manilla envelope. I am a little uneasy about it. It had no return address and I will not be able to go to MICA to check this out for a while. If you are there at MICA and could check this out for me, I would appreciate it. Please let me know what you find in the comment section below.

Strange Package

A strange package arrived on my desk today. I had no time to open it. I took it with me to my speaking engagement at the Maryland Institute College of Art. While there is I stopped by the Art Education office to see my old friend Karen Carroll, Dean of the Center for Art Education. We talked for so long that I left the package sitting on the floor in her office. I called and talked to the Administrative assistant Katie and she said she would leave it in the resource room. I am not scheduled to be back in Maryland for sometime, so I guess it will have to wait. However, if you find it would you please open it and post its contents in the comment section?

Why Are You Staring At Me?

While looking through the vault I came across this Scythian gold plaque from Siberia. I could not help but notice the similarities to the work of Bill Reid. At all of the joints there are eyes. It is similar to the technique utilized by Reid on this piece. The piece is titled Haida-Dogfish. I had to wonder what the connection between the two images was. I decided to dig a little deeper and I came across a blogpost about museums of the Northwest Coast: http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1268. These are called joint marks. I thought back to my anthropological training and remembered that the anthropologist Carl Schuster had documented such marks in his study of cultures all over the world. I took this information back to my office to mull over. As soon as I entered my office, the phone rang.

"Hello, office of Dr. Frank Howard. How can I be of assistance?"

A faint voice on the other end of the line stated, "You are on the right track. One word recursion" *CLICK*

I stood in front of my desk a little creeped out but sat down and began to search through the data.