[Nhcoll-l] Mastodon challenge

[Karen Morton]

Dear List Members,

We recently received a collection of mastodon bones that were eroding out of a hillside.  It turns out the area they were collected from was completely surrounded with poison ivy.  We'd love to be able to process them like every other donation, but we have already had one person break out in a rash just from the initial hand-over.  Does anyone have any recommendations on how to care for these fossils without endangering staff?  Should we just bag them up as is, label the outside of the packaging, and put warning signs for future reference (with the specimen AND in the database records)?  The bones have not been cleaned up and clumps of dirt and roots are still mixed in with them.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

KAREN MORTON
Collections Manager
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
P 214.756.5722 | karen.morton at perotmuseum.org<mailto:karen.morton at perotmuseum.org>

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