Oceania

Egypt
African Studies WWW (U. Penn.)
This Web site is supported by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Sandra T. Barnes, Director.
Egyptian Page
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Egypt.ht

Guardian's Egypt
Visit Guardian's Egypt where you can explore the mystery and splen-dor
of Egypt from the comfort of your own computer. Egypt is a fascinating land with a
rich history and a col-orful people. The site has great pictures and information about Egypt, and many links to Egyptology and Egypt resources throughout the World Wide Web. Guardian's Egypt http://guardians.net/egypt/

Dr. Holly Pittman, Associate Profes-sor in History of Art, page of Egyp-tian Links.
http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/223/ resrce.html
Dr. Holly Pittman’s home page html://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/hp/ hpittman.html

Internet School Library Media Cen-ter By Cherie Dean and Inez Ramsey
This bibliography includes books held at both an elementary school and the
juvenile collection of a public library.
Bibliography http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/egyptbib.htm

AESA
Discover Ancient Egypt with AESA. The AESA promotes the study and
understanding of the civilization of ancient Egypt by: sponsoring lectures,
discussion groups, and classes on the many aspects of ancient Egyptian cul-ture,
including modern Egyptology, reading hieroglyphics, and Egyptological Internet sites; disseminating
and exchanging information on Egypt via the Internet; and encouraging membership in and support of organizations which work to advance our knowledge of ancient Egypt.
AESA http://www.teleport.com/~ddonahue/aesa/joinaesa.html

Egyptological Information Resource
This page is set up with the kind assistance of the Newton Institute in the
University of Cambridge to provide a World Wide Web resource for
Egyptological information. The pages are not a publication of the New-ton
Institute, and all matters concerning them (e.g. comments, criticisms,
and suggestions for items to include) should be sent to Nigel Strudwick.
Egypt http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/

Rigby’s World of Egypt
This web site contains about 40 pages which reflect Rigby’s interest in
Egypt. Take a tour of the country, relish ancient poetry, find out about
Egyptian antiquities, see Egypt from above, plus much more.
Ribgy’s World of Egypt
http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/index.html

Egyptian Museum in Cairo
The greatest collection of Egyptian antiquities is, without doubt, that of
the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Museum http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/museum.htm

Yahoo Query for Egypt
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=egypt
Yahoo Query for Ancient Egyptian Art
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/
Anthropology_and_Archaeology/Archaeology/Egyptology/Art/
Yahoo Query for Archaeology and Anthropology for Africa
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/
Anthropology_and_Archaeology/Archaeology/Regions/Africa/
Yahoo Query for Archaeology and Anthropology for Europe
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/
Anthropology_and_Archaeology/Archaeology/Regions/Europe/
Yahoo Query for Archaeology and Anthropology for Mesopotamia
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/
Anthropology_and_Archaeology/Archaeology/Regions/Mesopotamia/

Walter de Gruyter, Inc.
Scholarly and Scientific Publishers
Publishes books on both Assyrian Studies and Ancient Egyptian Studies
http://www.degruyter.de/catalog/7410.html

Assyria
Nineveh On-Line
Assyrian links and resources, include a brief history of Assyria, cultural
links, news, fonts and much more.
http://www.nineveh.com/
Yahoo Query for Assyrian Culture
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cul-tures/ Assyrian/

Greece
Hellenic Literature Society
The HLS is a non-profit organization and is managed entirely by volun-teers.
It's mission is to promote the richness of the Hellenic civilization
and its vast culture.
HLS http://weber.u.washington.edu/~egkioule/books/HLS/

Hellenic Republic Consulate General of Greece
The Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles is a diplomatic mission providing
representation for Greece to the Southwest-ern part of the United States in every field:
political, economic and cultural. It also provides full consular services.
Consulate General http://www.hellas-info.org/
Links http://www.hellas-info.org/link.htm#Other

Center for Hellenic Studies at Temple University
http://zoro.cis.temple.edu/~chs

Hugh Elton's Home Page
Includes bibliography on Warfare in the Ancient World
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~helton/army.html

Yahoo Query for Ancient Greece
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Ancient_History/ Greece/
Yahoo Query for Ancient Greek Art
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Greece/Arts_and_Humanities/Art_History/

India
Alamkara: 5000 Years of Indian Art
An exhibition organized by the Asian Civilizations Museum, the National
Heritage Board, Singapore and National Museum, New Delhi held at
the National Museum, Singapore 1 July 1994 - 1 January 1995.
Alamkara - a Sanskrit word meaning ornamentation or decoration -
describes an enduring characteristic of Indian artistic production, whether
in the visual, performing or literary arts. Alamkara: 5000 Years of Indian Art explores ornamentation in the
context of objects made for use in domestic, religious and courtly set-tings.
These objects are grouped into sections focusing on various aspects
of Indian life, including the cooking and consumption of food, dress and
jewelry, past-times, the world of men and of women, and devotional pur-suits.
http://www.ncb.gov.sg/nhb/alam/ornament.html

Hindoo Aesthetic and British Architecture
Susan Johnson-Roehr Master Thesis on The 'Hindoo' Aesthetic and Brit-ish
Architecture, 1795 - 1820
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sroehr/sezincote.html

Yahoo Query for India
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/India/

China and Asia
Asian Studies Centre at The University of Manitoba
http://www.umanitoba.ca/asia/

Asian Arts Web Site
Asian Arts web site with links to related topics on the web, including
exhibitions, galleries, articles on Asian Art, and associations.
http://www.asianart.com/

Condensed Chinese History
http://asterius.com/china/
Yahoo Query for China
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/China/

Fairbanks Memorial Library (Harvard)
This project is dedicated to the memory of Harvard Sinologist, John King
Fairbank (1907-1991). Many thanks to Wilma Fairbank who gave her
consent for this project to bear her husband's name.
Library http://www.cnd.org:8022/fairbank/
China 5K - Time Line of the History of China
This site has an interactive timeline representation of Chinese history,
including culture, art, education, science, and government reference of China.
http://www.china5000pro.com/

Gandolf.com
A very entertaining page with live music and lots of information about
Cornish and Celtic legends and folk-lore. It also has an extensive bibliogra-phy
on the subject. Cornish Folklore http://www.gandolf.com/cornwall/introduction.shtml
Bibliography http://www.gandolf.com/reference/bibliography.shtml
Home http://www.gandolf.com/frames.shtml

Celts
Yahoo Query for Celtic Culture
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cul-tures/ Celtic/

Celtic Art, The Origins of
“Barbarians on the Greek Periphery? Origins of Celtic Art”. Very inter-esting
article by Contanze Baria Witt with some fairly sophisticated
HTML tool bars. If you are interested in the subject, or want to do some fancy HTML, check it out.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~umw8f/Barbarians/first.html

Book of Kells
Trinity College Library http://www2.tcd.ie/Library/kells.htm

Celtic Studies Around The World Compiled by Maria Wolters
Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Home Page http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~maria/LCC.html Celtic Studies Resources on the Web
By Lisa L. Spangenberg
Digital Medievalist is the best way to describe Lisa’s occupation, train-ing,
and interests. She started studying medieval English literature as an
undergraduate, and is currently completing a doctoral dissertation in
Medieval English and Celtic literatures.
http://members.aol.com/lisala/celturl.html
Trinity College Library

Roman and Rome
Yahoo Query for Rome
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Rome

Yahoo Query for Ancient Rome
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Ancient_History/ Roman_Empire/

Byzantine
Yahoo Query for Byzantine Culture
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Byzantine

Arabian and the Mid-East
UCLA Social Sciences Center
Wide ranging set of resources and information from UCLA. Includes Africa, Islam, and the Middle East.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/

Yahoo Query for Arabic Culture
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/ Culures/Arabic/

Turkey
Yahoo Query for Turkey and Turkish Arts and Humanities
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Turkey/Arts_and_Humanities/

Yahoo Query for Turkey and Turkish Society and Culture
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Turkey/Society_and_Culture/

Persia
Yahoo Query for Persian Culture
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Persia Persia.net
Expansive and comprehensive website with information and about Iran, both ancient and modern.
http://persia.net/

Center for South Asian Studies
The Center for South Asian Studies at the Univer-sity of Virginia is one of the nine federally funded
National Resource Centers for the Study of South Asia. Coordinating academic studies, outreach pro-grams,
and research relating to Afghanistan, Bang-ladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
and Tibet, the Center offers a wide range of courses in South Asia's lan-guages, cultures, religions, and history. The Center offers substantial fel-lowship and assistantship awards, as well as educational and cultural
programs in the community.
http://minerva.acc.Virginia.EDU/~soasia/

The Hindu
On-line edition of India's National Newspaper
http://www.webpage.com/hindu/

St. Aethelwold Nativity art from the Benedictional of St. Aethelwold, an Anglo-Saxon
manuscript, one of the British Library's treasures.
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/index.html

Celtic
The Ceolas celtic music archive
The home of celtic music on the internet. The site contains the largest
collection of information on celtic music on-line, and has links to hun-dreds
of other related sites.
http://celtic.stanford.edu/ceolas.html

The Irish Net directory
Irish resources on the net.
http://celtic.stanford.edu/IrishNet/

Celtic Design Series By Aidan Meehan's
The brilliant, beautiful designs, decorations and patterns of the Celts - expressed in their metal-work,
stonework and jew-elry, and continued in the manuscript illuminations of Celtic Christianity - are an
astonishing artform whose legacy has fascinated both Celtic and non-Celtic peo-ples for many centuries right through to the present day. With over 200,000 copies sold since its inception in early 1992, Celtic
Design is a successful and growing series of practical, step-by-step guides to Celtic art, revealing fully the versatile power of these ornamen-tal designs. Invaluable for designers and crafts people of all kinds, each
book examines a different theme, exploring its history and studying in detail its diverse forms.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/celtic_design/

The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access
to electronic resources in medieval stud-ies through a World Wide Web server at
Georgetown University. It has easy-to-use menus and hypertext links provide
automatic connections to databases, ser-vices, and electronic texts on other servers around the world.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

Arthema
Large site listing art that is for sale. They have a Medieval center.
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
http://www.arthema.com/html/Search/Associations/Associations000000154.htm

Gardner's Art through the Ages: Medieval
Tremendous source of art links. Includes Medieval links.
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks6.html

Yahoo Query for Medieval Art
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements/Medieval_Art/

Renaissance
Electrifying the Renaissance
University of Virginia’s Electronic guide to the Renaissance on the Web.
Home Page
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/depts/english/coursework/rar/index.html

Early Modern Links
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/depts/english/coursework/rar/links.html

Gardner's Art through the Ages: Renaissance
Tremendous source of art links. Includes Renaissance links.
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html

Yahoo Query for Renaissance Art
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements/Renaissance/

Elizabethan
Shakespeare Oxford Society
The home of the Shakespeare Oxford Soci-ety, the oldest continuously operating orga-nization
involved in the two-centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate.
http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/

UCLA Shakespeare Group
The Shakespeare Group engages in a variety of activities designed to fos-ter
an active study of Shakespeare's plays and bring his work to an audi-ence
that perhaps would not ordinarily be interested in Shakespearean drama.
http://gopher.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/shakespeare

Italian
Syracuse University Language Dept. Italian Links
Comprehensive set of links to everything Italian on the web.
http://lang.syr.edu/LLL/italian.html

The Italian Studies Web
This site provides access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies.
http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/italian.html

Dall'Italia Italian Links
Dall'Italia Italian links to Art, Cultural events, Institutions, Travel, and much more.
http://www.dallitalia.it/pos_e.html

Nature
Yahoo Query for Environment and Natuer
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/

Yahoo Query for Arts with a Natural Theme
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Thematic/Nature_and_Wildlife/

Yahoo Query for Nature Oriented Arts and Crafts
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Arts_and_Crafts/Thematic/Nature_and_Wildlife/

Ethnic and Folk Costumes
Thanks to Dr. Tara Maginnis for her contribution in this section

Preset Searches
Yahoo Ethnic Costume search
Yahoo Folk Costume search
Asia
The Philipine Fashion Page - Interesting look at current fashion designers in Philippines.
Thai Traditional Dress
Vietnam - Áo Dài Fashion Models by Linh Nguyen
The Americas
Alaskan Native Costume - This is a resource page that will allow you to link to many wonderful sites about Alaskan and other Native American costume. Also part of an even larger costume resource site.
Tulane Carnival Collection - Three miles of manuscripts on New Orleans society and culture. Good fantasy and carnival costumes.
Junkanoo in the Bahamas - Wonderful fun costumes with links to travel in the Bahamas.
Mardi Gras Indians - read about their history and annual parade, considered New Orleans "Black Mardi Gras". See the elaborate costumes now featured in some museums and National Geographic!
Moccasin and Mukluk Page - Native American footwear Clothing, Regalia, Textiles: Native American Costumes
Sharon Braunstein: Her Masks - A collection of theatrical masks that are also works of art.
The Costume Gallery’s Online Library - Researches for a fee historic costumes for private individuals, authors, designers, theatre, film and television.
Canada and the Northwest
Athapaskan Women’s Costumes and Ornaments
Canadian Indians - Mi’kmaq Portraits Collection
Canadian Museum of Civilization - Native American clothing collection
Clothing of the Native Peoples of Canada - Great images!
Clothing of Tsimshian Nobles
McCord Museum: The Collection, Ethnology and Archaeology - Quebec costumes
from the 1600’s on and Native American costumes.
Crossroads of Continents Exhibit (McCord Museum)
Tlingit Armor (McCord Museum)
The Chilkat Blanket - Tsimshian blankets.
Sanajuvut: Our Creations - Canadian Inuit fashion show, with similarities to Yupik
Threads of the Land - Clothing Traditions from Three Indigenous Cultures
FaceMaker: The Haida Mask - Truely cool Java site with a Make your own Hiada mask Java applet.
China
Asian Arts Chinese Textile Exhibit - 1,000 years of textile design and links into Asian art network.
Chinese Heritage in Tucson, Arizona: Traditional Dress - Building the Southern Pacific Railroad and the dress of the Chinese men who helped build it.
Peking Opera Masks - Great examples of this type mask with a link to a Bejing Opera page.
Japan
Kyoko88% - Japanese theatrical costume designer; mainstay of work is for Butoh.
Japanese Sword - Nihonto - provides information about Japanese swords, help in translating Japanese signatures and information about using Japanese characters (kanji) on computers.
Japanese Sword Index - Provides Japanese Sword Glossaries, Sword, History And
Care, Sword Identification, Clubs And References, Sword Link Pages, Translating
Japanese, Sword Signatures, Sword smith Indexes, Sword smiths, Articles By Clive Sinclaire.
Japanese Swords - Jim Kurrasch’s Japanese sword page.
Nihon To - Japanese sword web site
Arador Armour Library - Resource for those interested in medieval armour
(armor). Contains info on the construction of armour, pictures, and more.
Armour Archive - resource for beginner, and advanced armourers. With chat,
message boards, auctions, essays, reviews and much more.

Orient
India and Pakistan
Indian Drapes - A fabulous site on draping in India. More than 100 different styles
of draping, "families"of drapes, photos.
Silk Thread - Designer samples of Indian and Pakistani silk dresses.

Mediterranean and North Africa
Crusades Costumes and Period Info - The Jerusalem Mosaic’s online tutorial about Crusader costumes.
African Mask Making - Stagecraft of making African masks.

Mid-Eeast
Biblical Costhttp://www1.huji.ac.il/jeru/jerusalem.htmlume - Tour of Jerusalem through the ages, scant costume information in each period, but interesting.
Crusades Costumes and Period Info - The Jerusalem Mosaic’s online tutorial about Crusader costumes

English Isles and the Atlantic
Celtic Cultures - Web site for all things Celtic, including costume.
Icelandic Costume
Regency Costume Page - Perfectly delightful assortment of Regency fashion illustrations .
Traditional Welsh costume and recipes

France
Les santons habillés de Provence - 18th and 19th provincial French costume.
Paris Music Hall Collection - The Paris Music Hall Collection comprises over 6,000 original renderings of costume designs and 1,000 original renderings of curtain designs for the music halls of Paris from 1920-1938.

Germany, Austria and Swiss
Traditional Swiss Costumes and Customs

Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Sweden
BO Skraddare - Folkdrakts-Skraddar’n. Traditional Swedish costumes.
The Wooden Spoon - Scandinavian Clothing and Jewelry for sale

Norway
Bunad from Lier
Bunadfrom Solor-Odal
Bunads from Setesdal - in Norwegian. Keep clicking! Pictures and info on how they are made.
Orstabunaden - in Norwegian
Patty’s Norske Bunader - maker’s of Bunads (Norway)

Holland
Holland: Traditional Costumes

Eastern Europe and Balkans
Bosnia - Food and Dresses
Estonian Folk Costumes
Folk Costumes around Latvia
Macedonian Folk Embroidery - includes techniques
Polish Folk Costumes
Folk Costume near Moldovita
Oltenia costume
Northern Russia Folk Costume - Northern folk clothes of the Archangel Wooden architecture Museum