scholarly journals Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian (Shannon)

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 191-192
Author(s):  
David Delgado Shorter
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Native Voice

This work is a book review considering the title Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian by Jennifer A. Shannon.

scholarly journals Identifying VOCs in exhibition cases and efflorescence on museum objects exhibited at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian-New York

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Alvarez-Martin ◽  
John George ◽  
Emily Kaplan ◽  
Lauren Osmond ◽  
Leah Bright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Structural Adhesive ◽  
Speed Of Analysis

AbstractTwo mass spectrometry (MS) methods, solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography (SPME–GC–MS) and direct analysis in real time (DART-MS), have been explored to investigate widespread efflorescence observed on exhibited objects at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York (NMAI-NY). Both methods show great potential, in terms of speed of analysis and level of information, for identifying the organic component of the efflorescence as 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinol (TMP-ol) emitted by the structural adhesive (Terostat MS 937) used for exhibit case construction. The utility of DART-MS was proven by detecting the presence of TMP-ol in construction materials in a fraction of the time and effort required for SPME–GC–MS analysis. In parallel, an unobtrusive SPME sampling strategy was used to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) accumulated in the exhibition cases. This sampling technique can be performed by collections and conservation staff at the museum and shipped to an off-site laboratory for analysis. This broadens the accessibility of MS techniques to museums without access to instrumentation or in-house analysis capabilities.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian: An International Institution of Living Cultures

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS E. EVELYN
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Art History ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
National Museum ◽  
International Institution ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Public Programming ◽  
Special Responsibility

The mission of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian is to affirm to Native communities and the non-Native public the historical and contemporary culture and cultural achievements of the Natives of the Western Hemisphere by advancing, in consultations, collaboration and cooperation with them, a knowledge and understanding of their cultures, including art, history and language, and by recognizing the Museum's special responsibility, through innovative public programming, research and collections, to protect, support and enhance the development, maintenance and perpetuation of Native culture and community. Adopted 1990.

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