Program

Preservation and Access: National Heritage Preservation Projects

Period of Performance

6/1/2003 - 6/30/2006

Funding Totals

$700,000.00 (approved)
$700,000.00 (awarded)


Preserving and Imaging Ethnographic Textiles from North, Central and South America, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, and Europe

FAIN: PH-50002-03

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY 10024-5193)
Paul F. Beelitz (Project Director: July 2002 to December 2006)
Kevin DeVorsey (Co Project Director: July 2002 to December 2006)

The improvement of storage and the creation of digital images for 10,470 ethnographic textiles from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific Islands, North America, Mexico, and Central and South America. The textiles will be rehoused in new storage cabinets and digital images will be added to the online database of the museum's anthropology holdings