Conservation Resources

Professional Organizations

AIC American Institute for Conservation  http:www.culturalheritage.org 

ICOM-CC International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation. Working Group Conservation Newsletter of the Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures.  

AAM American Alliance of Museums https://www.aam-us.org/ 

NECA New England Conservation Association https://www.necaconservation.org/

General Bibliography

Broekhoven, I.N.K. Van, C. Buijs, and P. Hovens, eds. 2010. Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: First Nations of the Americas. Studies in Collaboration with Indigenous Peoples form Greenland, North and South America. National Museum of Ethnology no 39. Leiden The Netherlands. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

 

Bruchac, M. 2014. “Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Knowledge.” In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by C. Smith, 3814-3824. New York: Springer. https://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/171/

 

Clavir. M. 2002. Preserving What Is Valued, Museums, Conservation, and First Nations. Vancouver: The University of British Columbia.

 

Deloria, P.J. 2018. “The New World of the Indigenous Museum.” Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 147 (2): 106-115.

 

Deloria, P.J., K.T. Lomawaima, B.M. Jones Brayboy, M.N. Trahant, L. Ghiglione, D. Medin, and N. Blackhawk. 2018. “Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Way of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century.” Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 147 (2): 6-16.

 

Dignard, C., K. Helwig, J. Mason, J.K. Nanowin, and T. Stone, eds 2008. Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches. Proceedings of a Conference Symposium 2007. Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute.

 

Indian Arts Research Center. 2019. Guidelines for Collaboration (website). Facilitated by L. Smith, B. Vallo, and C.C. Lamar. Santa FE, NM: School for Advanced Research. https://guidelinesforcollaboration.info/.

Ogden. S. ed. 2004. Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide. St. Paul, MN: The Minnesota Historical Society.

 

Preventive Conservation

 

Preparation, art handling, collections care information network: http://www.paccin.org/content.php 

RIT Image Permanence Institute: https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org

Materials

AIC Materials Working Group: 

Conservation & Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (CAMEO) by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Main_Page

Conservation Staff Publications

Adams, M., and T. R. Holdcraft. 1992. “Dida Woven Raffia Cloth from Cote d’Ivoire.” African Arts 25 (3): 42-51 and 100-01.

 

Brown, I. W., R. Riccio, and R. Renshaw-Beauchamp. “Hall of the North American Indian: The Making of a New Exhibition.” In Symbols, March 1990. Pp. 3-5; 9-11.

 

Brown, J.P., M. Leveque, and M. Nau. 2017. “Treatment of Two Badly Damaged Egyptian Mummies and Associated Coffins.” In American Institute for Conservation Objects Specialty Group Postprints, edited by K. Dodson et al. Vol. 24: 293-318.

 

Chao, E., and J. Jungels. 2005. “Technical Study and Conservation of Colonial Period South American Figurines.” Symbols, Spring issue: 6-8

 

Cutulle, C. and Kim, S. 2015. “Dry Ice Blasting in the Conservation of Metals—A Technical Assessment as a Conservation Technique and Practical Application in the Removal of Surface Coatings” Paper presented at American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works (AIC) 43rd Annual General Meeting: Practical Philosophy, or Making Conservation Work, Miami, Florida, May 13-16, vol. 22: 77-100. URL: http://resources.conservation-us.org/osg-postprints/postprints/v22/cutulle/

 

Cutulle, C., M. Vigneau, M. Richmond, L. Koso, K. Nguyen, and M. Denhard. Forthcoming. “From Discovery to Recovery: Managing A Webbing Clothes Moth Infestation at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.” Paper Presented at ICON Pest Odyssey 2021—The Next Generation: Detect, Respond, Recover, London, September 20-22.

 

Cutulle, Cassy. Forthcoming. “Management of Priorities, Goals, and Training in the Execution of a Pest Mitigation Project at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.” Poster Presented at ICON Pest Odyssey 2021—The Next Generation: Detect, Respond, Recover, London, September 20-22.

 

Fang, M. W. and M. R. Binder. 1990. A Photographic Guide to the Ethnolgraphic North American Indian Basket Collection, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard. Vol,1. Peabody Musum Press (second edition 2004).

 

Fulton, S. and S. Keochakian. 2005. “The Conservation of Tumbaga Metals from Panama at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. In Objects Specialty Group Postprints, Vol. 22 pp. 76-90.

 

Healy, P. 1980/ 2006. Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua. Acknowledgment to Dennis Piechota and Elaine Grossbart for reassembly of two large Rivas vessels from the Peabody Museum collection. pp. XXVIII Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo Ontario.

 

Holdcraft, T. R., S. Haakanson, Jr, E. Promise, J. Jungels, F. Ritchie, and P. Capone. 2021. “Collaborative Study and Preservation of Coastal Alaskan Native Watercraft and Material Culture.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 60 (1): 2-17. DOI: 10.1080/01971360.2019.1698227.

 

Holdcraft, T. R., S. Haakanson, Jr., E. Promise, J. Jungels, F. Ritchie, and P. Capone. 2014. “Collaborative study and Preservation of Coastal Alaskan Native Material Culture with Museum staff, Alutiiq scholars and artists, university students and the visiting public.” American Institute for Conservation Objects Specialty Group Postprints, ed. S. Davis. Vol. 21: 1-20. (ISBN:2169-379X)

 

Holdcraft, T. R, D. P. Kirby, E. Promise, M. Corona, and S. Trauger. 2014. “Update on Identification of Skin, Sinew, and Inner Membrane Sources using Peptide Mass Fingerprinting.” ICOM-CC Newsletter of the Leather and Related Materials Working Group. June issue: 7-8.

 

Holdcraft, T. R., E. Perry, D. Loren, and C. Hodge. 2007/2010. “A Rare Native American Sash and its Paper Label ‘Belt of the Indian King Phillip. From Col. Keyes’: A Collaborative Study.” European Review of Native American Studies 21 (2): 1-8.

 

Holdcraft, T. R. 2003. “Documenting and Preserving Woven and Constructed Materials on a Collection of Early Nineteenth Century Native North American Object.” In Tales in the Textile: The Conservation of Flags and Symbolic Textiles, Preprints. Compiled by Jan Vuori, North American Textile Conservation Conference November 6-8, 2003. Vol 4: 37-44.

 

Holdcraft, T. R. 2003. “Silk Ribbons.” In Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark’s Indian Collection by Castle McLaughlin, 229. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.

 

Holdcraft, T. R. 2001. “Research, Exhibition, and Preservation of Bark Cloth Collections from the Pacific in the Harvard Peabody Museum.” In Barkcloth: Aspects of Preparation, Use, Conservation, and Display, edited by Margot Wright, 96-111. London: Archetype Publications.

 

Holdcraft. T. R. 2000. “Conservation Notes.” Part 1 on the final reporting of the 1997 IMLS-grant funded conservation of Pacific Island barkcloth; and Part 2, “Conservation Training at the Peabody Museum.” Symbols, Spring issue: 23-25 and 29.

 

Jungels, J., D. P. Kirby, and T.R. Holdcraft. “Ivory, Bone, and Hide: Exploring the History, Provenance and Materiality of a 19th century Greenland Inuit Dog Sedge Collected by Admiral Peary.” American Institute for Conservation Objects Specialty Group Postprints, edited by K. Dodson and M. Wilcop. Paper delivered at the 46th Annual Meeting 2018 in Houston, TX.

 

Jungels, J., and T.R. Holdcraft. 2014. “Study and treatment of Coastal Alaskan Native Kayak Models.” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 10 (2): 167-181.

 

Jungels, J., T. R. Holdcraft, and I. Spartz, 2011. “Preserving 140 Years of Archaeological Records in the Peabody Museum Archives.” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 7 (3): 271-88. doi.org/10.1177%2F155019061100700303.

 

Jungels, J., T. R. Holdcraft, and B. Fash. 2008. “Preservation and Rehousing of Mesoamerican Plaster Casts.” Poster presentation at the 36th Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Conservation, Abstract Book: 56. Denver, CO.

 

Jungels, J., and Y. Riddle. 2006. “A Study of the Technology and Conservation Treatment of Twelve Silvered Beads from South America.” The 32nd Annual Canadian Association for Conservation Conference, May 15-19, 2006. Toronto, ON.

 

Kirby, D.P., M. Corona, E. Promise, T. R. Holdcraft, J. Jungels, and S. Trauger. 2016. “Update on peptide mass fingerprinting for identification of skin, sinew, and inner membranes: NCPTT Grant Project at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology of Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.” ICOM-CC Newsletter Objects from Indigenous and World Cultures Working Group. March issue No. 1: 3 – 11.

 

Kirby, D. P., T. R. Holdcraft, M. Corona and S. Trauger. 2015. “Application of a Biotechnology Technique for Accurate Identification and Regional Localization of Mammalian Materials in Native American Cultural Heritage from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.” Final Report (2015-04) on Grant Number P13AP00078. National Park Service’s National Center for Preservation Technology and Training in Archeology & Collections, Grants, Product Catalog, Reports. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ncptt/

 

Kirby, D. P., M. Buckley, E. Promise, S. A. Trauger, and T. R. Holdcraft. 2013. “Identification of Collagen-based Materials in Cultural Heritage.” Analyst 138: 4849-4858.

 

Love, N., and T. R. Holdcraft. 1997. “Preservation of Maya Textile Fragments Excavated Ninety Years Ago in the Yucatan: A Closer Look.” American Institute for Conservation Textile Specialty Group Postprints, edited by P. Ewer and B. McLaughlin. Vol. 7 : 12 – 21.

 

McChesney, L. 1984. “Putting Our Show on the Road: Collections-Sharing at the Peabody Museum.” In Council for Museum Anthropology Newsletter 8(4): 7-13.

 

Morilla, C. (in press). “Naming blue pigments and colors in Medieval Catalonia: the case of LLuís Borrassà.”In Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World, Visual Culture in Early Modernity Series: Routledge.

 

Morilla, C., N. Khandekar, K. Smith, A. Schaffer. 2020. “Colored Grounds and Transfer Techniques in 17thCentury Spanish Royal Portraiture: the case of Pantoja de la Cruz’s Portrait of Philip III at the Harvard Art Museums” in Ground Layers in European Painting 1550–1750., edited by A. Haack Christensen, A. Jager and J. H. Townsend. London: Archetype, 2020 pp. 34-43.

 

Morilla, C. “Manipulacion de material etnografico en el Museo Nacional de Antropologia: la colección de indumentaria de corteza batanada”. InFrágil. Curso sobre manipulación de bienes culturales". Ed. Ana Tomas, pp.238-249. Madrid:Ministerio de Cultura, 2012.https://es.calameo.com/read/0000753357ab837daae35

 

Morilla, C. “Preventive conservation and museums storage” publication on line.http://www.icom-ce.org/recursos/ICOM_CE_Digital/04/ICOMCEDigital04.pdf

 

Morilla, C. “Conservation of four 19thcentury polychromed Chinese Sculptures from the National Museum of Arts and Crafts: Developing Protocols for LacquerConservation”, Published online: http://www.calameo.com/read/000075335399b4e3401c7

 

Nau, M. 2018. “Bug Tubs: Streamlining Blunder Trap Collection for Storage and Transport.” Presented at Stash Flash V at the 46th Annual AIC Meeting, Houston, TX.

 

Nau, M., J.P. Brown, J. Gallea, and R. Martin. 2015. “The Use of CT Scanning in the Preliminary Examination of an Egyptian Mummy and Coffin.” Midwest Regional Conservation Guild Newsletter, 34 (1): 9-11. https://themrcg.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/2015-spring-newsletter.pdf

 

Piechota D. V. 1978 “Storage Containerization: Archaeological Textile Collections. In Journal of the American Institute for Conservation Vol 18 (1) article 3 pp 10-18.

 

Piechota Dennis V. 1982. “Conservatism in American Textile Conservation.” In Textile History Vol 13 (2).

 

Promise, E., T. R. Holdcraft, D. P. Kirby, and S. Haakanson, Jr. 2014. “Identifying Collagen-based Materials: A Cross-cultural Collaboration.” ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference Preprints. Melbourne, 15-19 September 2014, edited by J. Bridgland, art. 0407, 10 pp. Paris: International Council of Museums. (ISBN: 978-92-9012-410-8)

 

Renshaw-Beauchamp, R. “The Preservation of Nonrenewable Resources” in Symbols, December 1988 pp. 5-6, 7.

 

Rivera, A. B., L Rainer, and L. Vagts. 2006. “Out of their native earth the history of excavation and conservation of ancient Hopi murals from Awatovi and Kawaika-a.” In The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces of Earthen Architecture. Proceedings from the International Colloquium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Park Service. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Sept 23- 25 2004. Pp 53-65. J Paul Getty Trust.

 

Wilson, J., ed. with M. Fang and S. H. Haskell. 1990. A Photographic Guide to the Ethnographic North American Indian Basket Collection, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard Vol 2. Peabody Museum Press. (Second edition 2006).