18686
Accession Number
5633
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