Seminar on fur, feathers and skin

Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts Seminar & AGM
The Museum of London
Monday 11 December 11, 2000
10am-15pm

Papers:

    An introduction to types of tannages used on ethnographic
    leather
    Aline Angus

    The conservation of Plains Indian shirts at the National Museum
    of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute
    Heather Richardson

    Laser cleaning of parchment
    Sam Sportun

    The conservation of a turtleshell mask from the Torres Strait
    Islands
    Jeremy Uden

    Love a duck: the conservation of feathered skins
    Allyson Rae

    The cleaning of feathers at the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
    Steffi Schaeuffelhut

    Colourful feathers: multidisciplinary investigation of the
    Amazonian featherwork from the ethnographic collection of the
    National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside
    Dr MR Solajic et al.

    Fur in fashion: a woman's glory or an unnecessary and murderous
    commodity?
    Edwina Ehrman

    Caring for fur at the Museum of London
    Barbara Heiberger

For registration please contact

    Deborah Cane
    Organics Conservator
    NMGM Conservation Centre
    Whitechapel, Liverpool L1 6HZ
    +44 151 478 4842
    Fax: +44 151 478 4990
    deb [at] NMGMCC4__demon__co__uk

Morwena Stephens
Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts, Chair


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