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Collections for the future – future of collections: Natural resins sold today: are they correct and pure?

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The Anthropology Division of the Yale Peabody Museum holds a collection of 180 Pacific tapa, or barkcloth. These wonderful examples of art and cultural heritage continue to be of interest to researchers and professors. Made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree and decorated with natural paints and dyes, they range in length from 1.5ft (0.5m) to 14ft (4m). In 2014 the Division received a grant to rehouse 8,000+ objects in the Oceania Ethnographic collection from sub-standard conditions into modern storage at a new facility. During that process it was clear that these fragile objects had been either tightly rolled on narrow (1.5in or <4cm) tubes or folded into wooden drawers. They therefore needed a significant amount of care, and a new storage solution. With museum conservators, we undertook a project to systematically relax, mend, photograph, reroll, and add a protective cover to each before rehousing them on new hardware. To make these objects visible to others, and limit the amount of handling to them in the future, photography was performed in the visible, ultraviolet and infrared spectra. The images are now available on the Peabody Museum’s website: http://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/
Originele taal-2Engels
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StatusGepubliceerd - 2016
Event31st Annual Meeting SPNHC: Green Museum - How to practice what we preach. - Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin, Duitsland
Duur: 20-jun.-201625-jun.-2016
Congresnummer: 31
http://www.bgbm.org/sites/default/files/pdf/SPNHC_broschuere_digital.pdf

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Congres31st Annual Meeting SPNHC
Verkorte titel2016 SPNHC Conference
!!Country/TerritoryDuitsland
StadBerlin
Periode20/06/1625/06/16
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