18686
Accession Number
5633
Author
Stone, Tom
Title Of Article Chaper
Current projects at the canadian conservation institute relating to conservation of ethnographic material
Title Of Journal Book
Ethnographic conservation newsletter
Issue
1
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The projects include: treatment of a number of northwest coast monumental works of art (large wooden objects); investigation of cleaning methods for feathers; testing gap fillers for wood; shrinkage temperature measurements of skin and leather artifacts; casting of replacement pieces for basketry; documentation of pigments and binding media from native groups; a study of slatechuck creek argillite; examination and replication of a tsimshian stone mask; a study of glass bead deterioration; a method of unrolling birchbark scrolls; a study on the lightfastness of coloured ethnographic materials; hair slippage problems in fur materials; rock art conservation research.
Keywords
Wood, conservation; glass, bead; mask, restoration; stone, slate; pigment, analysis; paint coating, binder; basketry, conservation; wood, filling moulding; feather, conservation; bark, birch; ethnography, conservation; research, project conservation; rock, drawing engraving conservation; fur, deterioration; hair, material; colour, dye light fastness
pub_id
18686
Issue Date
19850000