Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
31st Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia; June 8, 2003

The History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Conservation

Compiled by Virginia Greene, David Harvey, and Patricia Griffin

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Program Chair’s Foreword
David Harvey

Postprints abstracts

• From an idea of creativity to a product of reliability: Update of research on electrochemical testing of exhibit and storage materials
  Judith J. Bischoff, Jason A. Bustamente, Chandra L. Reedy, Richard A. Corbett, and Marc S. Walton

• Connective tissues: Ethical guidelines for biohistorical research
  Nancy Buenger

• New ideas for the testing, documentation, and storage of objects previously treated with pesticides
  Nancy Odegaard, Leslie Boyer, Melissa J. Huber, Lara Kaplan, Caroline Kunioka, Teresa Moreno, Cheryl Podsiki, Alyce Sadongei, David R. Smith, and Werner Zimmt

• Practical aspects of consultation with communities
  Jessica S. Johnson, Susan Heald, Kelly McHugh, Elizabeth Brown, and Marian Kaminitz

• Preparation of a fossil dinosaur
  Amy Davidson

• Conservation before conservation at the Shelburne Museum: The doll collection
  Nancie Ravenel

• The influence of early ethnographic conservation in Alaska
  Scott Carrlee and Ellen Carrlee

• Assessing the past: Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological collection
  Emily Williams

• A preliminary investigation of compounds extracted when soaking low-fire ceramics
  Teresa Myers

• Tips from the National Museum of the American Indian collections move
  Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Colleen Brady, Norine Carroll, Jen French, Emily Kaplan, Angela Yvarra McGrew, Ashley McGrew, Scott Merritt, and Leslie Williamson

• Conservator’s anonymous: Post-its from the edge
  Katherine Holbrow

• Loss compensation and surface integration
  Maureen Russell

• Paintbrush and airbrush: A reconsideration of filling and inpainting techniques for ancient ceramics
  Tony Sigel

• Tips and tricks with epoxy and other casting and molding materials
  Stephen P. Koob

• Using dental molding compounds to record data in zero-visibility underwater environments
  Claire Peachey

• NMAI good tips: Application and bulking of cyclododecane and mass production of supports
  Rachael Perkins Arenstein, Norine Carroll, Jennifer French, Emily Kaplan, Angela Yvarra McGrew, Ashley McGrew, and Leslie Williamson

• Research on identifying organic pesticide residues at the National Museum of the American Indian
  Jennifer Bosworth, Jessica Johnson, and Rolf Hahne

• A basket case: Repair of a bamboo basket using false warps of Japanese tissue and wire
  Candis Griggs-Hakim

• Cellophane in collections
  Anne Léculier

• S.S. White to the rescue: Salvaging fire-damaged baskets with the S.S. White/Pennwalt Airbrasive Unit
  Nancy Odegaard, Melissa J. Huber, Lara Kaplan, Teresa Moreno, and Cheryl Podsiki

 Unpublished presentation abstracts

• A closer look at The Gentle Art of Applied Pressure
  Carole Dignard, Bob Barclay and Carl Schlichting

• “It shouldn’t have any bearing on the treatment but it does!”
  Jim Moss

• “Pilot Conservation Standards” for the design and construction of NPS museum exhibit cases
  Toby Raphael, Kevin Brookes and Van Wood

• Low-tech lightfastness testing of Flashe paints
  Julie Wolfe