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Mexico City 2005


Keynote Speech

Pathways to the Past: Strategies for Investigating Ancient Andean Textiles

Mary Frame

Workshops

No workshops offered

Papers

Textile Treasures of Llullaillaco / Fenella G. France, Vuka Roussakis, Patricia Lissa, Miguel Xamena, Pedro Santillán, María Campero de Larrán, Gabriela Doña, and Gabriela Ammirati 

Long Ago Person Found—An Ancient Robe Tells a New Story / Kjerstin Mackie 

Evidence of Caribbean Basketry Preserved as Impressions on Pottery / Soraya Serra-Collazo 

Rediscovering Pre-Columbian Peruvian Textiles: Their Conservation and Documentation in the Museo Nacional, Universidad Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Luciana da Silveira, Arabel Fernández López, y Elizabete Mendonça 

A Pre-Columbian Funerary Bundle from Atacama: An Interpretation of the Textiles’ Tactile–Visual Languages / María Soledad Hoces de la Guardia Chellew y Ana-María Rojas Zepeda 

Looking into the Past: The Potential of X-Radiography as an Investigative Technique for Archaeological and Ethnographic Textiles / Sonia A. O’Connor and Mary M. Brooks 

Identification and Quantification of Organic Pesticides on Ethnographic Textiles during Treatment Phases / Susan Heald, Lauren Chang, and Jessica S. Johnson 

Darn that Spot! Investigations into Cleaning Raffia Cut-Pile Kuba Cloth / Beth Szuhay and Jill D’Alessandro 

A Study of Moosehair-Embroidered Souvenir Objects / Anne MacKay 

Conservation of the Feather Mosaic “Christ Saviour of the World” from the Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Mexico / Rosa Lorena Román Torres, Abner Gutiérrez Ramos, Nicolás Gutiérrez Zepeda, Fernando Sánchez Guevara and Lilia Félix Ramírez 

The Textiles of Leymebamba / Lena Bjerregaard 

Examination and Treatment of a Basketry and Textile Tent Divider from Sudan / Christine Giuntini and Maya Naunton 

The Treatment and Preparation for Exhibition of a Composite Material Ceremonial Warrior’s Costume from the Loma People in Liberia / Stephanie Hornbeck 

An Invisible Craft / Priya Ravish Mehra 

Textile Case Study: A Project to Protect Heritage in Religious Spaces in Mexico / Mercedes Gómez-Urquiza de la Macorra 

To Repair or to Conserve the Ethnographic. Reorganization Project of the Ethnographic Galleries of the Museo Nacional de Antropología / María Judith Gómez González and Alejandro González Villarruel 

First-Aid and Preventive Conservation of Ecclesiastical Vestments in the Greek Orthodox Monasteries / Tatiana Koussoulou 

Negotiating Meaning and Cultural Memory with Maya Textiles / Lana Panko 

Using Collections to Bridge Communities / DY Begay and Jeanne Brako 

The Textile Center of the Mayan World: A Commitment for Conservation and Dissemination of Textile Art  / Cándida Fernández de Calderón 

Conservation of the Bolivian Danzante Costume from the Museo Etnográfico of Buenos Aires / Patricia Lissa, Silvana Di Lorenzo y Maria Pia Villaronga 

Irmgard Weitlaner Johnson: Outstanding Researcher of Textiles / Virginia Davis 

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Posters

Investigating the Presence of Dog Hair in Coast Salish Blankets / Anne Murray, Susan Heald, Marilyn Jones, Lauren Chang and Harry Alden 

Izote / Beatriz Garcés Gómez 

Tracking Clues to the Past in Maguey-Fiber Sandals / Pamela Scheinman 

Analysis and Conservation of Prehistoric Footwear and Bags from Midwestern North America / Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff and Marie. S. Standifer 

The Veil of S. Marina from the Church of S. Maria Formosa in Venice / Susanna Conti, and Marzia Lorenzini 

Mummy of Merit: A Conservation Project on the Funeral Outfit (Equipment) / Cinzia Oliva 

Palimpsests and Pentimento in the Canvas Codices Collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia / Mónica Ruiz Hernández 

Rescue of a Textile Collection / Priscilla Alvarado 

Excavation and Preliminary Conservation of a Dong Son Burial Shroud from the Red River Delta in Vietnam / Nicola Smith, Judith Andrewartha, Patrya Kay and Ellie McFadyen 

Re-Housing Archaeological Textiles during the National Museum of the American Indian Collections Move / Lisa Anderson, Lauren Chang and Susan Heald 

Easy Access? —Approaches to the Care and Storage of Archaeological Textiles at the Whitworth Art Gallery / Ann French and Frances Pritchard 

Brocades and Embroideries of the Mayan World: Preserving a Collection and a Tradition / María Judith Eunice Gómez González 

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Sponsors
Local Committee
  • Fernando Sánchez Martínez, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Alejandro González Villarruel, Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia

  • Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Lorena Román, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Judith Gómez González, Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia

  • Professors and students of the Textile Conservation Seminar

  • Carmen Chami, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Abner Gutiérrez, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Lilia Félix, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Nicolás Gutiérrez, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Fernando Sánchez Guevara, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Claudia Sánchez, Centro Regional Guerrero

  • Claudia de la Fuente, Centro Regional Guerrero

  • Ximena Rojas, Centro Regional Guerrero

  • Omaira Escandón, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Yareli Jardai Benavides, Escuela Nacional de Restauración, Conservación y Museografía - “Manuel del Castillo Negrete”

  • Georgina Montalvo, Directora Paseos Culturales del INAH

  • Ana Beatriz Estrada, Paseos Culturales del INAH

  • Mercedes Martínez, Director, Museo del Colegio de Paz de las Vizcaínas

  • Gilda Vázquez, Events coordinator, Colegio de Paz de las Vizcaínas

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