In Past Perfect, you can restrict access to certain fields according to the user  name and password used to log on.  If you
place the information in one of these fields, you can then limit access  acccording to tribal rules while still allowing access to
the other information.  Hope this helps.

10/31/01 5:46:00 PM,         David Bingell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Thank you all for such great information.  I have, of
>course, been working with the tribal elders, who
>simply want to put the word "sacred" (in their
>language, of course) immediately prior to the
>description of the object.  However, there are some
>cultural prohibitions restricting women and non-tribal
>members from seeing this information.  Cross
>referencing via a type of code may work, but in the
>end, we all have to see the objects and any records
>associated with it -- especially to meet specific
>NAGPRA requirements -- for instance, proving that we
>have a facility that will best preserve the object.
>We're working out a solution, but it remains a sticky
>wicket nonetheless.
>
James H Tichgelaar
Assistant Director
Arkansas State University Museum
http://museum.astate.edu

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." (Laurie Anderson)

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