NOTES

1. The newspaper article that describes Frederic E. Church's purchase and treatment of a painting that now hangs at Olana is so pertinent, and so interesting, that my frustration at being unable to read crucial phrases led me to seek another photocopy. (Joyce Martindale, Texas Christian University's librarian, kindly provided one.) Thus, I discovered that this article may survive only as microfilm copies in a few scattered libraries and that all the copies may derive from the same imperfect master film. The thought of losing access to published writings of this kind prompts me to add this note—a plea for the preservation of old periodicals.

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FURTHER READING

Fane, D., I.Jaknis, and L. M.Breen. 1991. Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Exhibition catalog. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Brooklyn Museum.

Native American Art Exhibit. 1992. Transcript of a discussion broadcast on March 4, 1992, on National Public Radio/Morning Edition, Brad Klein reporting. Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio. Accessed at http://www.npr.org. The repatriation of 13 Zuni war gods is mentioned. 379

AUTHOR INFORMATION

JEAN D. PORTELL is an independent conservator of sculptural objects. After receiving her bachelor of arts degree from Vassar College in 1962, she studied easel painting at the former Brooklyn Museum Art School. During this time she also worked as an office volunteer in the museum's Painting Conservation Laboratory, which was then headed by Caroline K. Keck. The museum hired her in December 1962 to assist Anton J. Konrad in creating a new conservation laboratory for the Department of Primitive Art and New World Cultures. During 1964–66, while living in Canada, she was hired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to equip and manage its first conservation laboratory and assist the museum's visiting consultant conservators. Returning to New York in 1966, she continued training in sculpture conservation with Konrad at his private studio in Brooklyn. In 1967, when the Museum of Modern Art hired Konrad to open its first sculpture conservation lab, she was hired to assist him. She worked part-time at MoMA (1967–69 and 1971–78) and also at Nelson Rocke-feller's Museum of Primitive Art (1968–70), where she assisted Jeanne Kostich. In 1978 she started a fulltime practice in sculpture conservation based in Brooklyn. For the past several years, she has also been researching the history of art conservation in the United States. Address: 13 Garden Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201.