A report on the progress and photographic techniques of the Image Recovery Project, during the spring and summer of 1984.

 

Bill McLennan, Bill Reid, and George MacDonald collaborate on a project to use raking light and infrared photography to reveal and replicate painted compositions on belongings held at the Museum of Anthropology, with particular focus on a Tsimshian house screen.

 

Infrared photography will be used to reveal the painted imagery on a late-1800s Tlingit drum, so that the drum can be safely cleaned for preservation.

 

Article about photographing painted artworks with infrared film.  This allows in-depth examination of compositional relationships, iconographic representations, and stylistic nuances.  When physical repatriation from public collections is not possible, returning these images can be a partial answer to complicated repatriation questions.   
 

An explanation of infrared photography as a technique used to reveal underlying "layers" of a painted image.

 

Zachary James (Lingít), museum collections coordinator at the Haines Sheldon Museum, is inspired by the book The Transforming Image to apply infrared photography to Lingít (Tlingit) art in the museum's collection.