Critical Issues in the Conservation of Ethnographic Collections

The 1998 Training Workshop will be held in Whitehorse on May 30-31,
1998, directly after the CAC conference and will familiarize
conservators in all fields with sensitivities inherent in Native
cultural property. The workshop will facilitate a frank and open
discussion of values which have an impact upon the provision of
conservation services toward Native cultural property whether in the
community or institutional setting.

Native museum professionals working on behalf of their own
communities will comment upon their dealings with institutions
within the museum community. Conservators from Canadian Institutions
and abroad will describe working with indigenous communities and/or
ethnic minorities whose material culture forms an important part of
their institutional collections. Specialists in the field of
alternative dispute resolution will offer strategies for mediation in
situations of cross-cultural conflict.

For more information, please contact John Moses, CAC Workshop
Coordinator, Canadian Ethnology Service, Canadian Museum of
Civilization, PO Box 3100, Station B, Hull, Quebec, Canada, J8X 4H2.

John Moses
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tel. (819) 776-8441
fax (819) 776-8300