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Daily Log

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July 15

A.M.

Box 7: Pelvis

Continued to clean dirt away from the bone. The parts of the bone which were painted with the PVA emulsion are in a good hard condition.

Treated a delicate section with more PVA emulsion.

Lucy -

Box 1 Bone 2: joined a piece.

Box 1 Pelvis: painted the "larger" fragile pieces with PVA emulsion (15% in vol.). The dirt (which is basically holding the bone together) has the tendency to dry out and

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hopefully the extra coat of PVA will aid in consolidating the piece.

In the process, unfortunately, the dirt crumbled repainting two pieces.

Photographed - Pelvis (Box 7). Gen. shot, detail, and with some gauze in place.

Box 7 Pelvis: PVA gauze treatment on opposite side.

1. Overlapping layers of gauze to cover the piece.
2. Brush on the PVA (AYA F 25% solution) with a brush - not thick laying of solution - molding the gauze to the bone by lightly pressing it with the flat end of a dental tool.
3. Put on 3 layers of paper towel and brushed each with PVA.
4. Let dry. Already the piece is becoming "paper mache" or plaster-like in texture!

Lucy gave the same gauze-PVA treatment to Box 1 Pelvis.

P.M.

Box 7

Excavating the remaining earth in the box, found parts of giners, very fragile and fragmentary: many roots in this section of earth and

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the bone material is badly deteriorated.

Consolidated 3 finger parts with PVA emulsion (15% in vol.). The remaining tiny fragments (not cleaned) were bagged with enclosed label.

Believe finger parts are: phalange - distal row.