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Online Museum Classes
NA255: Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and Ethnographic Artifacts
Course Description & Info Instructor: Nancy Odegaard
Student Login Price: $150.00
Oct 4 - Oct 29, 2010 Sign up at www.nathpo.org
Students must be staff at a tribal institution and meet NATHPO qualifications. This course is subsidized by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a grant awarded to NATHPO.
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Description:
Many museum collections were treated with pesticides to
preserve them. Often there are no records and staff is
unaware of what might be on the collection or how it may
affect researchers. This class is designed for museum
curators and others who work with Native American and
ethnographic collections. It details methods to mitigate
hazards from chemicals and pesticides and health issues
stemming from their use on artifacts.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Background to the problem
3. Identifying pesticides and why they were used
4. Creating a collection history
5. Medical issues and protective practices
6. Conclusions
Logistics:
Participants in Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and Ethnographic Artifacts work through sections on their own. Materials and resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog between students and the instructor through online forums. The course is limited to 20 participants.
Sign up for this class with NATHPO at www.nathpo.org
Students must be staff at a tribal institution and meet
NATHPO qualifications. This course is subsidized by the
Institute of Museum and Library Services through a
grant awarded to NATHPO.
Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and Ethnographic Artifacts runs four weeks. If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
Required Text Book
Old Poisons, New Problems by Nancy Odegaard, et. al.
Available for purchase from Northern States Conservation
Center at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html
The Instructor:
Dr. Nancy Odegaard is the Conservator and Head of the
Preservation Division for Arizona State Museum. She is also
a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Nancy
manages and supervises staff and programs in the
conservation lab, advises on museum environmental issues,
and seeks to promote the preservation of collections
through improved exhibition and storage conditions. Nancy
holds a Ph.D. in Applied Science through the Conservation
and Cultural Heritage Science Studies Department of the
University of Canberra, Australia. She earned her M.A. in
Museum Studies/Anthropology at the George Washington
University with a Certificate in Ethnographic and
Archaeological Conservation from the Smithsonian
Institution. Nancy specializes in the conservation of
archaeological and ethnographic objects including the
examination, analysis, and study of materials and
pre-industrial technologies used to fabricate artifacts.
She is the author of the 2005 publication Old Poisons, New
Problems about pesticides on Native museum objects.
NA255: Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and Ethnographic Artifacts
Course Description & Info Instructor: Nancy Odegaard
Student Login Price: $150.00
Oct 4 - Oct 29, 2010 Sign up at www.nathpo.org
Students must be staff at a tribal institution and meet NATHPO qualifications. This course is subsidized by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a grant awarded to NATHPO.
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