This paper presents a low-cost conservation project from the Polar Museum, Cambridge, in which two Inuit gut parkas from the museum’s collection were prepared for display and analysed to identify their material components. The project relied on cultivating professional networks and adapting inexpensive mounting methods to get maximum value from a very small budget. The parkas were analysed with a range of techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX), attenuated reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and a novel low-cost and non-destructive protein analysis technique to identify species. The results of the analysis are presented along with an explanation of the inexpensive mounting system which was devised to display the parkas as they were originally worn. The advantages and limitations of using a networking approach to analysis are also discussed.

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鞋带的保护和分析：在剑桥极地博物馆展示Gut Parkas

本文介绍了一个来自剑桥极地博物馆的低成本保护项目，其中准备了博物馆藏品中的两个因纽特人肠道大衣进行展示并进行分析，以识别其材料成分。该项目依赖于培养专业网络并采用廉价的安装方法，以很小的预算获得最大的价值。用一系列技术分析了皮大衣，包括扫描电子显微镜（SEM），能量色散X射线光谱（EDX），衰减反射傅里叶变换红外光谱（ATR-FTIR）以及新颖的低成本无损蛋白质分析识别物种的技术。给出了分析结果，并解释了一种廉价的安装系统，该系统被设计用来显示最初穿着的皮大衣。