University of Arizona (Arizona State Museum)

The Arizona State Museum will ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of 50 items including large, handcrafted barkcloth fabrics and woven basketry mats from Indigenous groups in northern Mexico (Pima Bajo, Pipil, Tarahuamara, Tepehuan, Warhio, Yaqui, Tohono O'odham, and Otomi) and the Pacific Islands (Fijian, Hawaiian, Javanese, Melanesian, Philippine, Samoan, and Tongan). These materials have high scholarly significance and interest to museum scholars and researchers, tribal community members, and the general public. Over an 18-month period, the museum will document, stabilize, rehouse, and move the items into new storage. Treatments will be recorded in the collections database and made searchable in the Woven Wonders conservation database of more than 35,000 items in the museum's basketry collection.