Collections Care: Cleaning African Ceramic Pots
- Post Date: 02/17/2017
- Author: John Holton
- Reading Time: 1 minute read
The Museum is continuously cleaning artifacts to help preserve them for as long as possible. Here, we highlight the process of cleaning a collection of 35 ceramic pots from various African countries. The ceramics vary dramatically in size and design.
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Collections assistant Sierra Clark uses a dry brush to clean the top ridge of a Makonde pot from Mozambique (2005.01.0016).
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Sierra uses a vacuum extension to clean the interior of a Huasa water pot likely from Nigeria (2005.01.0019.
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