Comments on: Seeing Art’s Bones: X-Raying Plant Fiber Objects at the Getty Villa http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/seeing-arts-bones-x-raying-plant-fiber-objects-at-the-getty-villa/ The online magazine of the Getty Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ellen Pearlstein http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/seeing-arts-bones-x-raying-plant-fiber-objects-at-the-getty-villa/#comment-63396 Ellen Pearlstein Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:30:43 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=4453#comment-63396 To see additional work performed for this class, check out the exhibition "Western Science Seeks Cultural Knowledge," described at http://www.accmuseum.org/Online-Exhibitions and do please provide comments or questions. Baskets are important not only amongst the Cahuilla, but for Native peoples throughout the west and northwest regions of the United States. It seems fitting, then, to focus the eyes of conservators on baskets and other items made from plant materials in the collections of the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum. This exhibition demonstrates the kinds of discoveries that UCLA graduate conservation students made in the investigation and treatment of cultural objects and sandals in the Museum collection. To see additional work performed for this class, check out the exhibition “Western Science Seeks Cultural Knowledge,” described at
http://www.accmuseum.org/Online-Exhibitions and do please provide comments or questions.

Baskets are important not only amongst the Cahuilla, but for Native peoples throughout the west and northwest regions of the United States. It seems fitting, then, to focus the eyes of conservators on baskets and other items made from plant materials in the collections of the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum. This exhibition demonstrates the kinds of discoveries that UCLA graduate conservation students made in the investigation and treatment of cultural objects and sandals in the Museum collection.

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