The Geographies of Henna
Present use of Henna

Maps of historic henna use from
Developing Guidelines on Henna: A Geographical Approach
Location of Artifacts Between 6000 BCE and 3000 BCE That Have Positive Evidence of Henna Use
Location of Artifacts Between 3000 BCE and 1400 BCE That Have Positive Evidence of Henna Use
Location of Artifacts Between 1400 BCE and 500 BCE That Have Positive Evidence of Henna Use
Location of Artifacts Between 500 BCE and 700CE That Have Positive Evidence of Henna Use
Location of Artifacts between 700 BCE and 1250 BCE That Have Positive Evidence of Henna Use
Location of Artifacts Between 1250 BCE and 1700 BCE That Have Positive Evidence of Henna Use
Areas of Henna Body Art Practices in the Early Twentieth Century
Areas of Henna Body Art Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: Tradition, Immigration, Westernization and Para-Phenylenediamine
The Geographies of Henna Emergence in the West
The Geographies of Para-phenylenediamine “Black Henna” as Body Art
The Geographies of Traditional Henna Use in the Early 21st Century



Geography, Henna and The Hennapage

Henna use and its traditions have migrated over the course of many centuries as the people of the world's henna-using cultures moved across parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. The pace of that migration has increased greatly as people from southern Asia and the Middle East have formed permanent communities in the West and fast efficient shipping and commmunication have made it possible to transport henna and information about it to all parts of the world.

This section of The Hennapage is devoted to illustrating the role geography has played and continues to play in the cultivation and use of henna and the worldwide spread of its use and traditions.

The maps
The two maps below are snapshots of dynamic maps that show different subsets of the users of The Hennapage.


Frappr.com
Frappr is a "social networking" site that includes the standard features, such as chat, personal and group photoalbums and blogging. What makes it unique is the map that is part of each Frappr group. Members of a Frappr group can place markers on the group's map showing who and where they are.

Because the link to the Frappr Community has been available only through a link on the Forum, all of the people who have added themselves to the map are at least occasional Forum users. That might change now that the link has been moved to our home page.

The growth of Frappr and similar social networks is an important recent phenomenon in the Internet world and is likely to be the topic of much scholarly discussion in years to come.

Our thanks to Erika Harrison, who set up the HennaPageForum group on Frappr.com.

Click the Frappr logo below to see the current Frappr map or to add yourself to the Hennapage Frappr group.


Clustrmaps.com
Clustrmaps is an online service that provides dynamic mapping of the accesses to a webpage. HTML code added to the page sends data to the Clustrmaps server which is analyzed for the location of the server that issued the webpage request. Based on this data, a marker is added to a world map showing by the relative size and position of the markers the location of the requesting server and the number of requests coming from that general area.

We have installed a Clustrmaps link in the index ("home") page of the Hennapage site. Because not every user accesses the site through the index page, the link captures only a portion of the overall site traffic. The index page averages about 1000 accesses daily while the site as a whole logs 3500 - 5000 accesses per day. Nonetheless, the Clustrmaps display is an interesting sample of the overall users of this site. We have configured the map to update daily and to automatically archive monthly, so a new map will automatically start around the third week of each month but the old maps will be stored on the Clustrmaps server for later reference.

Click the Clustrmaps.com logo below to see the current map display.



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