Identification of animal species in skin clothing from museum collections

Anne Lisbeth Schmidt; Tom Gilbert; Enrico Cappellini; Jesper Velgaard Olsen

Identification of animal species in skin clothing from museum collections

Anne Lisbeth Schmidt, Tom Gilbert, Enrico Cappellini, Jesper Velgaard Olsen

Abstract

Since the birth of museums, the identification of the materials from which objects are made has been a highly respected academic discipline, often yielding significant quantities of information about object provenance, traditional use of special materials, access to commodities, trade, hunting tradition, etc. This paper introduces methods that enable identification of animal sources in prehistoric
and historic skin clothing, using the tools of microscopy, genetic profiling, and mass spectrometry-based protein sequencing of subsamples of hair and skin.

Original language	English
Publication date	2011
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	16th Triennial Conference of the International Council of Museums - Lissabon, Portugal Duration: 19 Sept 2011 → 23 Sept 2011 Conference number: 16

Conference

Conference	16th Triennial Conference of the International Council of Museums
Number	16
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lissabon
Period	19/09/2011 → 23/09/2011

Keywords

proteinkemi
skind
identifikation
huder
hår
DNA
pels
klædedragter
mikroskopi

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