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7 messages in edu.ku.nhm.mailman.taxacomDrying wet mummy| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Paulo Andreas Buckup | Aug 22, 1995 7:25 pm | |
| Todd Newberry | Aug 23, 1995 6:19 am | |
| San Diego Natural History Museum Library | Aug 23, 1995 8:23 am | |
| GB:'X0B$4fAB92GB5 | Aug 23, 1995 10:18 am | |
| Robert Robbins | Aug 23, 1995 12:37 pm | |
| San Diego Natural History Museum Library | Aug 23, 1995 1:04 pm | |
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| From: | San Diego Natural History Museum Library (libs...@CLASS.ORG) | |
| Date: | Aug 23, 1995 8:23:38 am | |
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The flood that you mentioned occurred not at the University of Texas, but at Texas A&M University in 1992. People who have presented discussions of this and its aftermath include George Baumgardner and Kathryn Vaughn at TAMU, Cathy Hawks, Steve Williams, and me, mainly at SPNHC and ASM meetings.
But a mummy is a very different issue and there are probably few people on TAXACOM with the expertise you need. You might consider posting to the Conservation Dist List or to MUSEUM-L. The Getty Conservation Institute has worked on the problem of microenvironments for human remains and could also help you very much. In the eyes of conservation and the law, human remains, even in a historic context, have to be approached differently from other natural history specimens.
Sally Shelton Director, Collections Care and Conservation
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On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Paulo Andreas Buckup wrote:
Fellow Taxacomers, This is not a systematics discussion, but a request for help on how to dry an Egyptian mummy. Since most of you have experience with preserved collections or know museum specialists in your institutions, I direct this request to you. At the National Museum in Brazil one of the galeries suffered a flood due to restoration work being carried out at the roof. As a result an adult human male Egyptian mummy of about 3000 years became wet. We would appreciate any help on how to dry the specimen with minimal damage. The mummy is from the Intermediary (or Late) Period and probably belongs to a sarcophagus which has been dated from the 21st dinasty. Any help will be appreciated, specially from those of you with contacts in the British Museum, the Smithsonian, or perhaps even the Cairo Museum. Was Elaine Hoagland (from ASC) who once presented a talk on collection care, which included information on several floods suffered by North American Museums (e.g. the U.of Texas big Museum flood which affected their mammal collection)? Anybody with first hand experience in this kind of problem?
Paulo A. Buckup Dept. de Vertebrados Museu Nacional Quinta da Boa Vista 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ BRAZIL e-mail: buckup at omega.lncc.br