Call for papers

Call for Papers:
"The Conservation of Ethnographic Materials"
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, April 1995

Papers concerning the conservation and preservation of ethnographic
materials are invited for a symposium sponsored jointly by the ICOM
Working Group on Ethnographic Materials and the Division of
Conservation, Field Museum.

Papers can include any aspect of the care and conservation of material
culture from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, such as case
studies, technology, material science, curatorial and ethical problems,
repatriation, and the interaction of native peoples with museum
collections.

The language of the symposium will be English. The proceedings of the
symposium will be published. Abstracts of approximately 300 words should
be submitted by 1 February 1994 to Catherine Sease, Division of
Conservation, Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago,
Illinois USA 60605; fax 312/427-7269.

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