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Fig. 2

From: Aiding the cleaning of four 19th-century Tsimshian house posts: investigation of museum-applied surface coatings and original polychromy

Fig. 2

The Northwest Coast Hall at AMNH, ca. 1910. Image #33003, American Museum of Natural History Library. The image shows many monumental carvings installed in the Hall when coal heating and open windows were a source for heavy soot deposits. Two of the Tsimshian house posts in this study (16/565 and 16/568) are mounted on the wall just beyond the third large window

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