[Nhcoll-l] Mastodon challenge

[Anne Swann]

This stuff is supposed to get rid of the oil ( urushiol) from items as well
as skin. Think gardening tools and such. Might be fine for bones.

https://www.teclabsinc.com/products/poison-oak-ivy/tecnu

I also think Dawn dishwashing liquid is good with that type of oil.

Anne

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:13 PM Karen Morton <Karen.Morton at perotmuseum.org>
wrote:

> Dear List Members,
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> 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.
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