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Isabel Laila Klotz: | Jewellery made of human hair- Restoration, conservation and cultural confrontation with objects from the South Sea collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne | back |
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Abstract: | The work deals with twelve oceanic jewellery objects made of human hair from the South Seas collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne. It encloses two different main subjects, the restoration/conservation and the ethical discussion. This contains the chemical and physical behaviour, the ageing behaviour and appearing damages of human hair, as well as the practical and ethical handling of these objects. Furthermore the cultur-al background, the history of the objects and new restoration methods were described. Besides that studies of materials and their results as well as the right handling with pesti-cide-loaded cultural goods are explained. |
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