Program

Preservation and Access: Save America's Treasures

Period of Performance

1/1/2003 - 12/31/2005

Funding Totals

$400,000.00 (approved)
$400,000.00 (awarded)


Preserving the North American Ethnographic and Archaeological Collection

FAIN: PT-50004-03

Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL 60605-2827)
Stephen E. Nash (Project Director: January 2003 to April 2006)

To support a systematic survey and to preserve objects and archival collections that document North American ethnography and archaeology.

Conduct a systematic survey of pesticide contaminants, implement a pest management program, mitigate chemical threats to the objects, ameliorate physical threats to the objects, and synthesize the supporting documents that provide the intellectual and cultural context for the collection.