Title: "Where to start, where to stop?" :
Authors: British Museum/MEG Ethnographic Conservation Colloquium; Hill, Lewis.; Giles, Sue.; Gowers, Harold,; British Museum.; Museum Ethnographers' Group (Great Britain)
Date: 1995
Publisher: Museum Ethnographers' Group,
Physical description: vi, 154 p. : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC class: A
Contents: Harold Gowers Memorial Lecture : an introduction / M.E.A. McCord -- Harold Gowers Memorial Lecture 1989 : "Where to start, where to stop?" / M.D. McLeod -- Pottery, what makes ceramics ethnographic? / Elizabeth Pye -- The creolisation of West African material culture / Michael Rowlands -- The value of mass consumption objects / D. Miller -- The conservation of ephemera : discussion / Peter Gathercole, Chair -- Cultural restraints in the handling of objects : museum responsibilities / Derek Gilmann, Dale Idiens -- Discussion on museum responsibilities / Peter Gathercole, Chair -- Reorganizing the collections : video / Winifred Odder -- The ethnographic collections at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery : a computerized conservation survey / Vivien Chapman -- PREMA : training programme for African museums / Alain Godonou -- Passive and interventive conservation for a travelling exhibition / Maureen Robson -- The use of daylight as the main source of lighting exhibitions / Michael Belcher. The effects of light on ethnographical material / S.M. Bradley -- Relative humidity and temperature control / May Cassar -- Ventilation and humidity within museums / W. Hall -- Insect pests in museums : identification, prevention and housekeeping / D.B. Pinniger -- Harmful efects of pesticides on people and property / R.E. Child -- The extermination of insect pests by freezing / Caroline Allington -- Methods for the eradication of insect pests in museum objects / V.D. Daniels -- Some methods of basketry repair using Japanese tissue paper and starch paste / Barbara Wills -- The conservation of tree-ferns, pith and cork / Kerry Head -- A consolidation treatment of ethnographic pottery from New Guinea / Christine Daintith -- The technology and conservation of lac ware from the Maldive Islands / D.J. Lee -- Urushi techniques and conservation / Carolien Van Es -- Tin plate and its treatment / Richard Ryan.