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Beaded Jacket - Conservation Treatment

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Beaded Jacket
The conservation treatment of a Native American jacket made from leather, animal fur, textiles, gold lace, glass seed beads and sinew.
This jacket was donated to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center as part of the Dyck Collection. It is constructed out of leather pieces which have been sewn together with cotton thread. The inside is lined with a red textile, which is stained and partially detached. The outside is beaded with glass seed beads which have been sewn on with sinew. There are also furs which are probably beaver, muskrat or otter. The metal coils are called gold lace. The various textiles on the outside of the robe have deteriorated, but we could not come up with a reasonable solution to repair them. There were some small insect nests and dust which were removed by vacuuming with a mesh net. The glass seed beads were cleaned with saliva on q-tips.
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Front
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Inside
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Staining
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Detail of gold lace
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Front
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Proper Right Shoulder from the front
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Insect Nest
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Fur Detail, Potentially from a Muskrat, Beaver or Otter
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Inside Detail
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
Before Treatment, Medallion
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
During Treatment, Medallion
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
After Treatment, Medallion
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
During Treatment, Front
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
During Treatment, Front
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
After Treatment, Front
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
After Treatment, Back
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
After Treatment, Inside
buffalo bill historical center native american glass seed beads Fur textile leather jacket conservation restoration ethnographic saliva cleaning Objects Conservation
After Treatment, Detail
Beaded Jacket - Conservation Treatment
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Portage, IN, USA

Beaded Jacket - Conservation Treatment

The conservation treatment for a Native American Jacket. Completed during my internship at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

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