Mapping the Tomb Court Lady with One Bun

This is the link for the map that our group made using arcGIS. https://carleton.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=3cbd4d2ce36b4c818fd3b462883e9765

Here also is a picture of the map we made:

There were a lot of details in this project that weren’t exactly clear, and didn’t quite know how we were accomplish making this map. We know that this statue had made several stops on its voyage to Carleton. The main thing we knew that it was given as a gift by a spouse of an alum, or an alum herself, Linda Larson to Carleton.

We of course knew that it had started in China, and had ended up in Northfield at Carleton, but we didn’t always have the information to place the movement of the statue in time. There were a total of 5 stops along the way, and we had dates for two of the stops, but not for the three others. We decided to make a range of time, instead of definite points, because, as I mentioned, we didn’t know all of the points for the dates. We do know that the statue was in Hong Kong on September 9th, 1998, for the second stop. The next stop was in California, where it was sold again, but this unfortunately did not have a date, we didn’t know where exactly in California the statue ended up. Because of this, we did some approximating, and decided on the major port of San Francisco for our best guess. We approximated the rest of the points, and had the statue end up in the Weitz. 

Besides coming up with the data, the major challenge of this lab was doing the mapping itself, because the program was being very annoying, and made it difficult to complete the assignment. The program wouldn’t allow the lines to go eastward, which doesn’t make sense, because eastward is faster for China to the US. We couldn’t change each flag to a particular color, so we indicated the final point with a checkered flag like we wanted. Overall, a difficult but interesting lab.