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The Maya vase conservation project

Title
The Maya vase conservation project / Lynn A. Grant ; with contributions by Elin C. Danien.
Author
Grant, Lynn A.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Danien, Elin C.
  • University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Description
xvi, 109 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 27 cm +
Summary
"Museum goers are always fascinated by behind-the-scenes glimpses of how museum professionals prepare artifacts and works of art for exhibit and study. In this illustrated, step-by-step presentation, Lynn Grant describes the problems of conserving and preserving a collection of 19 important Maya polychrome vases from Chama, Guatemala. The vases were excavated early in the 20th century by Robert Burkitt, an early investigator for the University Museum."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Maya pottery > Guatemala > Alta Verapaz > Classification
  • Maya pottery > Guatemala > Alta Verapaz > Themes, motives
  • Mayas > Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Guatemala > Alta Verapaz
  • Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) > Antiquities > Collection and preservation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-106) and index.
Contents
1. Of pottery and preservation / Elin C. Danien -- 2. The need for conservation -- 3. New technologies for conservation and archaeology -- 4. The conservation treatments -- 5. The conservator's eye.
ISBN
1931707871 (hard cover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006004724
  • 9781931707879
OCLC
  • ocm64084354
  • SCSB-14576687
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries