Equipment for Archaeological Conservation Facility

修复和保护考古和人种学美洲原住民材料已经成为这个国家的一个主要问题。这些材料对于人类学研究来说是不可替代的。罗切斯特博物馆和科学中心是塞涅卡东北部历史文物的主要储存库。他们的系统收藏品数量超过100万件，包括从公元1540年到1820年的50多个地点的连续序列的大量材料。这些藏品为人类学家研究美国东北部和加拿大的原住民和欧洲人的接触提供了主要的数据库。这些收藏品中的许多都很脆弱，而且迅速变质，因此研究人员无法再处理这些收藏品。在这个项目中，博物馆工作人员将配备一个保护实验室，并开始保护这些受损的物品。稳定和保护将保护这些重要的人类学和国家资源，同时改善研究人员的可及性。

The restoration and conservation of archaeological and ethnographic Native American materials has become a major problem in this country. These materials are irreplaceable for anthropological research. The Rochester Museum and Science Center is a major repository for northeastern and historic Seneca objects. Their systematic collections number over 1,000,000 items and include large quantities of materials from an unbroken sequence of over 50 sites from A.D. 1540 to 1820. The collection serves as as a primary data base for anthropologists studying Native and European contact in the northeastern United States and Canada. Many of these collections are fragile and rapidly deteriorating and hence can no longer be handled by researchers. In this project the museum staff will equip a conservation laboratory and begin preserving these damaged objects. Stabilization and conservation will preserve these important anthropological and national resources while improving accessibility for researchers.