The conservation of fur, feather and skin
By: edited by Margot M. Wright
Contributors: Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts; Museum of London
Series: CEA series -- no. 3
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Antiquities; Collection and preservation; Congresses; Leather; Conservation and restoration; Feathers; Fur; Museum conservation methods; Material culture; Ethnological museums and collections
Notes: Seminar organised by the Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts at the Museum of London on 11 December 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the types of tannages used on ethnographic leather  -- Aline Angus; title: The conservation of Plains Indian shirts at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution  -- Heather Richardson; title: A brief summary of laser experimentation undertaken on parchment at the Conservation Centre, National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM), Liverpool  -- Samantha Sportun; title: The conservation of a turtleshell mask from the Torres Strait Islands  -- Jeremy Uden; title: Love a duck: the conservation of feathered skins  -- Allyson Rae and Barbara Wills; title: Cleaning of feathers from the Ethnological Museum, Berlin  -- Stephanie Schaeuffelhut, Helene Tello and Simone Schneider; title: Colourful feathers: multidisciplinary investigation of the Amazonian featherwork from the ethnographic collection at the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM)-initial results / M.R. Solajic, M. Cooper, T. Seddon, J. Ruppel, J. Ostapkowicz and T. Parker -- Fur will fly: exhibiting controversy  -- Edwina Ehrman; title: Caring for fur at the Museum of London -- Barbara Heiberger.