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AUTHOR INFORMATION

STEPHEN P. MELLOR received his M.S. from the University of Delaware, Winterthur Art Conservation Program, in 1981 after completing his internship in the Objects Conservation Department for the Rockefeller collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has worked as conservator for the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Mass., and for the African, Oceanic, and the Americas Department at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He is presently chief conservator for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Address: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560.