Found an image on Flickr Commons that looked a lot like a piece of art I had in my house. Did some research, found it was mis-identified on Wikimedia Commons (it’s a navigation map, not a Chinese kite) so I’ve put in a “move” request to get the name updated.
Original cyanotype by Smithsonian photographer Thomas Smillie. Here’s a huge set of his photos.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/albums/72157604590559182/
#photography #Wikipedia


@Sxan@piefed.zip You can read more about them here and here. I suspect the one I have is just artistic but the other ones may have been functional
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/11/the-unique-seafaring-charts-of-the-marshall-islands/