Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
34th Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island; June 19, 2006

Using Artifacts: Is Conservation Compromised?

Compiled by Virginia Greene, Patricia Griffin, and Christine Del Re

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Katie Holbrow

Postprints abstracts

• Send them out or keep them here? The dilemma of loaning Harvard’s glass flowers
  Scott E. Fulton and Susan M. Rossi Wilcox

• 48 pieces: Reassembly of an Ancient Greek marble lion using an internal armature with reversible mechanical components
  Joe Rogers and Dale Benson

• The 2004-2005 treatment of Alexander Calder’s last and largest mobile, Untitled (1976)
  Michael Belman, Abigail Mack, and Shelley Sturman

• Restoring the M.R. 1750 public clock: History, analysis, experimentation, and re-creation
  Steven W. Dykstra, Donald Saff, and Lee W. Badger

• Preserving the mountain
  Gerri Ann Strickler

• The conservation and resurrection of seven clay coffins from Nippur
  Julia B. Lawson

• Conservation and exhibit of an archaeological fish trap
  Ellen Carrlee

• Don’t rock the boat: Reconstruction and mounting of a waterlogged dugout canoe
  Howard Wellman

• Conservation of Assyrian reliefs at the Brooklyn Museum
  Tina March, Lisa Bruno, Hiroko Kariya, Won Ng, Ellen Pearlstein, and Helen Stockman (Amélie Drewdun)

• Conservation of big stuff at the Henry Ford: Past, present, and future
  Clara Deck

• Hair consolidation and treatment of an insect-damaged dancing hat from Sierra Leone
  Anya McDavis-Conway, Jakki Godfrey, Bruno P. Pouliot, and Richard Wolbers

Unpublished presentation abstract

• The stabilization of zinc statuary through the addition of internal armatures
  Mark Rabinowitz