Visiting conservation scholar Anna Keruzec is creating trays for three-dimensional Pre-Columbian dolls.
She begins by laying the dolls on a tray-sized piece of paper and tracing them. Then, she cuts out tray-sized sheets of thin Ethafoam and a thicker piece of Volara. Anna uses the template she created to carve away the space of the dolls from the Volara, making a void for them to sit in. Next,, she glues the Ethafoam, then the Volara, to the blue board tray, and places the dolls in their niches and secures them with twill tape. Bumpers around the exterior of the trays allow multiple trays to stack in a box.
Chief Conservator Esther Méthé supervises conservation intern Annaïck Keruzec as she cuts tissue for a custom mount. The mount will help secure a very fragile oversize fragment that Méthé and Keruzec have encased in silk crepeline for stabilization.
Mantle fragments, Peru, south coast, Paracus. TM 91.337A. Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1941.
Hi everybody—welcome to the April 2021 Omniatlas poll!
Omniatlas holds semi-regular polls on Patreon to determine which maps to do next.
Anybody who is a Patron of Omniatlas can vote in these polls.
The votes in this poll will choose which map series follows the current run of Roman Empire maps (released every Friday). The options are:
* Europe: Diocletian to Constantine (285–337) * Europe: First Triumvirate to Augustus (60 BC–6 AD) * East Asia: Qin Shi Huang to Gaozu (247–195 BC) * North America: Toltecs to Aztecs (900–1400)
Choose to have the maps continue on with the Roman Empire into the 4th Century, as the Romans enter their last great united phase under Diocletian and Constantine! Or what about going back to an earlier time, to follow the collapse of the Roman Republic during the Third Triumvirate to the founding of the Roman Empire under Augustus, or traveling to the other side of Eurasia to witness the unification of China’s warring states by the Qin and Han dynasties? Or perhaps cross the Atlantic to view the struggle for dominance in Postclassic Mesoamerica?
