Serve me with crumpets for tea if Joseph Mella didn't write:
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> We have received a number of African, Central and South American and Oceanic
> objects in the past year. I am looking for sources, i.e. books, articles
> and the like, on the fabrication of museum mounts for such objects. Many
> of the works are masks. Others include standing figures, and a wide
> assortment of vessels.
 
Masks are one of the things covered in this article.  It might be
worth taking a look at, although the emphasis is on storage rather
than display mounts.
 
Philip R. Ward (no date, sorry)
     In Support of Difficult Shapes - Museum Methods Manual 6.
     British Columbia Provincial Museum.
 
My copy came from CCI and has the call number AM 141 M874 v.6 (it
looks like it was originally a fairly thin paperback).
 
Don Bassingthwaite
University of Toronto, Museum Studies
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