Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge
This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpens...
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ftjcms:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/157 2024-06-23T07:54:11+00:00 Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge Rowe, Sophie Ravaioli, Flavia Tully, Catherine Narvey, Megan 2018-07-05 application/pdf application/xml https://account.jcms-journal.com/index.php/up-j-jcms/article/view/157 https://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.157 eng eng Ubiquity Press https://account.jcms-journal.com/index.php/up-j-jcms/article/view/157/134 https://account.jcms-journal.com/index.php/up-j-jcms/article/view/157/135 https://account.jcms-journal.com/index.php/up-j-jcms/article/view/157 doi:10.5334/jcms.157 Copyright (c) 2018 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies; Vol. 16 (2018); 2 1364-0429 2049-4572 object conservation sustainability mount gut parka Inuit protein analysis network info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftjcms https://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.157 2024-06-03T09:05:10Z This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpensive mounting methods to get maximum value from a very small budget. The parkas were analysed with a range of techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX), attenuated reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and a novel low-cost and non-destructive protein analysis technique to identify species. The results of the analysis are presented along with an explanation of the inexpensive mounting system which was devised to display the parkas as they were originally worn. The advantages and limitations of using a networking approach to analysis are also discussed. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies (JCMS) Parka ENVELOPE(17.540,17.540,66.787,66.787) The Polar Museum ENVELOPE(18.963,18.963,69.652,69.652) Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies 16 1 |
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This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpensive mounting methods to get maximum value from a very small budget. The parkas were analysed with a range of techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX), attenuated reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and a novel low-cost and non-destructive protein analysis technique to identify species. The results of the analysis are presented along with an explanation of the inexpensive mounting system which was devised to display the parkas as they were originally worn. The advantages and limitations of using a networking approach to analysis are also discussed. |
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Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge |
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Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge |
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Conservation and Analysis on a Shoestring: Displaying Gut Parkas at the Polar Museum, Cambridge |
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