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.