In an exciting new stage of the project, the barkcloth research has moved to the Pacific in recent months. In the first instalment of our travels, Andy Mills and …
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Work at the Kew Archives is Producing Some Fascinating Insights
Recently I spent three very stimulating weeks working with our project Co-Investigator Mark Nesbitt and his colleagues at our primary UK partner institution, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. …
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Special Research Visit from Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki and Dr Michaela Appel
Last week the Barckloth Conservation Lab was pleased to receive a visit from Dr Michaela Appel, Curator at The Museum Fünf Kontinente and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki, from Aitutaki …
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Adrienne Kaeppler Research Visit to Tonga
Adrienne Kaeppler with the Queen of Tonga, Her Majesty Nanasipau‘u, researching a Tongan kupesi design board from the 1940s. It illustrates the tennis court from a group of kupesi …
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