Resources on the Marshall Islands
Editor's Acknowledgements
by Dirk H.R. Spennemann


A site such as this one could obviously not be put together without the help and cooperation of many people.

The site started off in 1999 with the publication of three electronic books (Marshallese Legends and Traditions, Tattooing in the Marshall Islands, and Essays on the Marshallese Past), the raw coding for which was set as class exercises for the subject ITC 130 ' On-Line Publishing'. Fundamental to its success were Prof. David Green and Rob Stocker. Darren Stuart provided some of the further site development and recoding of the students' work into the present form of the three books.

Since then the site has been systematically enlarged by the editor. I am particularly indebted to the authors who graciously made their material available, as well as the web administrators who shared lists and data collected by them. These are individually listed below.

The site is maintained on the life server of Charles Sturt University. The ongoing organisational and technical support provided by Prof. David Green and Larry Benton is gratefully recognised.

 

Culture Pages

Anne and Bevan Downing (Canberra)
kindly permitted that a number of their items be photographed and reproduced as part of the Handicraft pages.
Nancy and David Huskins (Akron, Ohio, USA)
made available a number of photographs from their collection and kindly permitted that they be reproduced as part of the Handicraft pages.
Susan King (XXX)
kindly provided the photos of a basket and which are reproduced as part of the Handicraft pages.
Dietgard and Erhart Steffel (Bad Soden)
kindly permitted that a number of their items be photographed and reproduced as part of the Handicraft pages.