Danielle's Garden

The World in a Garden

Danielle's Garden

TOWER HILL EDUCATIONAL FUND
A/C 20067
Bank of Nova Scotia
1-3 Knutsford Blvd.
kingston 5,
Jamaica

AUSTRALIA

The Boomerang and Kangaroo

The boomerang is a weapon created by the Aborigines of Australia. The boomerang was used to kill the kangaroo, an animal providing a source of food for the Aborigines. The traditional 'x-ray' style of painting, as done by an Aborigine, decorates the boomerang displayed here.

The kangaroo is an indigenous marsupial of the Australian continent.

Interlude - The Fountain

This fountain is called 'the fountain of the birds', as it is decorated with bird designs on Italian tiles, a blue ceramic bird from the Dominican Republic, some brass birds from England, and a bronze bird from Czechoslovakia.

The fragments are mainly modern items, but a few are more than 500 years old. (N.B. Guide to have visitors GUESS!). The stone man is over 500 years old, and is an Indian pre-Columbian artifact from the Dominican Republic. It may have been a religious artifact or a tool. Next to it are two Indian pottery fragments from the same period.

Also of interest is the coat of arms of Hungary, next to the brass bird statue. The green in the lower right section represents the original three parts of the capital Budapest - Buda, O'buda and Pest. The cross above the hills is the,' cross of King Stephen, the saint who brought Christianity to Hungary a thousand years ago. The crown is symbolic of Hungarian statehood, and the real crown can be seen in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. Ferenc Ra'ko'cz, in May 1703, started a successful insurrection against the Emperor, and his flag had the design features which are adopted in the left portion of the coat of arms.

The next stop on the tour, will help explain how coats of arms originated.

Object d’Art

Historical Date

Cross-Related Dates and Events

Comments Related to Objects d'Art

PYRAMID/SPHINX

-3000 to –2501

·     Egypt’s introduction of 365 day calendar

·      Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs emerge

·      Cheops’s Pyramid and the Sphinx at Gizeh are built

RAMSES II

-1350 to -1200

·         Olmec, as first major Mesoamerican civilization, emerges in Mexico

·         Accession of Rameses II as Pharaoh in –1279

·         Battle of the Hittites at Kadesh, circa –1275/4, in the 4^th or 5^th year of Rameses rule

MAYA

-600 to –501

·         Cyprus under Egyptian rule

·         Babylonian captivity of the Jews and first Hebrew written words of the Old Testament

·         Mayan civilization is established

·         Pascal rules in Palenque over 1,000 years later, from 615 to 683

BUDDHA

-563 to –483

·         Confucius born in 479

·         Buddha preaches his first sermon at Benares in -521

GREAT WALL

-250 to 1644

·         Jesus Christ born circa –4

·         Mohamed born 570

·         Charlemagne born 742

·         Qui Shi Huang becomes first emperor of China in –221

·         Start of building of Great Wall, circa –217

·         Building of Great Wall ends when last emperor of Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, committed suicide in 1644

HERALDIC SHIELD AND SWORD

1100 to 1300

·         Marco Polo born 1254

·         Medieval birth of heraldry in Western Europe about 1150

·         Baron Ulrich von Lichenstein dies 1257

AZTEC

1327 to 1364

·         Great fire of Munich in 1327

·         Black Death in lEurope 1347

·         Mexico City is established by the Aztecs 1327

·         Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec, is built in 1364

TOTEM POLE
KANGAROO
PENGUINES

1400 to 1992

·         Christopher Columbus set sail in the Santa Maria, from Palos, Spain, in 1492

·         500^th year after Columbus landed in the Americas 1992

·         Project work on Danielle’s Garden starts in 1988

·         All major commissioned works of art for Danielle’s Garden completed in 1991

·         Private family opening of garden in 1991

·         Formal public opening of garden in 1992

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Interlude - The Fountain

The Statue Garden

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Jamaica

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