This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Bronwyn:
Many thanks for the offer, but I really need to use an image of something that is culturally familiar to the folks these signs are aimed at - that is Pacific Northwest Native Americans. One of my biggest challenges when working with Native communities, and especially those for whom the whole museum world is a new experience, is making museum and collections rules relevant to their day-to-day cultural environment. A photo of a Northwest coast object being chewed by bugs underlined with a few carefully chosen words will have far more impact than the typical "DO NOT EAT AND DRINK IN THE MUSEUM" or "NO FOOD AND DRINK" signs have. Thanks again - if I ever need to make signs for an African collection I will let you know, Claire On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Bronwyn Eves <be...@museum.state.il.us>wrote: > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Claire, I have an image of an African fertility figure (wood) with some > "good?" insect damage that happened before it came to our museum. Please > contact me at be...@museum.state.il.us if you are interested. > > Bronwyn Eves > Illinois State Museum > > > On 3/8/2012 1:47 PM, J Claire Dean wrote: > > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Dear All: > > I am in the process of making new bug awareness signs for a client to use > in a tribal museum here in the Pacific Northwest. I have found that very > official/authoritarian signage does not go down well here (not that it does > anywhere) and that visual hints have far more impact than words. > > My new signage has been inspired by a format I saw in use at the Pitt > Rivers Museum last year which I thought was particularly good (please see > bad mobile phone captured photograph below). > > I am in need of a photograph of insect damage to an object or material > that I can use in my version, in particular something recognizable to folks > in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe some basketry? I do not have such an > image and I'm hoping that you folks might be able to help out. I will need > a photo that I can reproduce and display in public and non-public areas > (photo credit will of course be included). > > Any help would be most gratefully accepted. > > Thanks, > > Claire > > > J. Claire Dean > Conservator > > Dean & Associates Conservation Services > 3438 NE 62nd Avenue > Portland, Oregon 97213 > USA > Tel: 503-331-1972 > E-mail: jclaired...@gmail.com > > * > *[image: Inline image 1] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.netand in > the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com > > > -- > Bronwyn Eves > Project Manager > Illinois Collections Preservation Network > Illinois State Museum Society > Phone 217-524-0498 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.netand in > the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
