Ka ngere'dnga ruwiyu
To energy+my child+this
This child will support me when I am old

Please be patient!
We are developing this web site as we can. Almost everything is under construction and you will find some categories that are entirely empty.

Viewing the site

This website is designed initially for PC and Internet Explorer 5 or higher. It is intended to be viewed using the fonts 'Comic Sans MS,' 'Verdana,' and 'Goudy Handtooled BT.' These are commonly supplied with Windows and, with a little searching, are available for free download on the WWWeb.

How to use this site

Categorization fragments the whole but also facilitates access to information. The categories above -- Home, Tour, Montagnards, etc. -- are artificial but hopefully convenient.

The 'Tour', consisting of a slide show, serves to introduce you to Sukur, its landscapes, and its people.

'Montagnards' will provide a broader context, geographic and socio-cultural, within which Sukur can be better understood.

Since society is expressed in culture, the categories of 'Society' and 'Culture' are the hardest to disentangle, and we will do our best to interrelate them with hyperlinks. 'Society' will primarily contain information on the structure of Sukur society and on the economy past and present, but at present consists of sections on legends and history. Culture will include a wide range of information on the Sukur calendar, on ceremonies public and private, on material culture, and other aspects of Sukur life.

'Language' is at one and the same time more self-contained as a category and essential underpinning to everything else. At present it mainly contains our inexpert data on Sakun, the language of Sukur. While most people will use it not at all or occasionally for reference, we hope that students of language will find it useful.

Images are included in all categories. 'Images' will offer a gallery of pictures of Sukur people and their lives.

'Music' will give a brief description of Sukur music and musical instruments and include a sample of audio files.

The 'Library' is just that, a compilation of references to books, chapters, articles, videos, in fact everything that is referred to elsewhere on the web site and other sources of relevance.

'Links' offers the visitor connections to other Internet resources that we think are of interest.

Inoculations against meningitis and other diseases are carried out by medical technicians who walk up the mountain without complaint, sometimes even returning to visit on their free days. The inoculations we witnessed were free as part of a WHO program.

Chameleon on a white-barked acacia