Call for papers--Unusual materials

Call for papers: Unusual Materials
UKIC Ethnography Section Unusual Materials Seminar and AGM
Oxford
15 April 2002

The next UKIC Ethnography Section 1 day Seminar will be on Unusual
Materials: e.g. sponge garments, insect wings, spiders silk, human
hair, pith, sand paintings, coral, baleen, teeth, claws, bird beaks
or fishskin which can be found in ethnographic artefacts. Papers are
welcomed on the use, investigation and analysis, storage, collection
care and conservation of unusual materials as well as ethical and
anthropological issues surrounding them.

Please send abstracts by 7 December 2001 to:

    Deborah Cane
    Organics Conservator
    NMGM Conservation Centre
    Whitechapel
    Liverpool L1 6HZ
    +44 151 478 4842
    Fax: +44 151 478 4990
    deb [at] nmgmcc4__demon__co__uk

Morwena Stephens
UKIC Ethnography Section


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