Lab Hours Week 5

1 hour spent meeting with my group
3 hours spent researching
30 minutes spent going through other people's blogs

Lab Hours Week 4

Wednesday- Spent 1 hour researching my objects
Thursday- Spent 1 hour discussing storyboard ideas with group
Friday- Met with group and spent 1 hour and 30 minutes working on storyboard
Saturday- Spent 45 minutes working on storyboard
Monday- Spent 2 hours and 30 minutes working on storyboard and 15 minutes going through class blogs

Total: 7 hours

Buddhist prayer on palm leaf

I was researching my items and came across this pretty interesting article on the process of creating palm-leaf sutras(one of my items is a Buddhist prayer on a palm leaf).

Dai (Thai) people create "civilization on palm leaves"

Here are some pictures from the article:

Here's what the engraved Buddhist prayer from the Beardsley collection looks like up close:

Lab Hours Week 3

45 minutes spent working on my Deed of Gift and posting it onto my blog

20 minutes spent looking through class blogs

15 minutes spent reading through Alice's travel journals that Carrie posted

Deed of Gift

Maria's gift was a silver bracelet her cousin bought for her in New York.

Lab Hours Week 2

3 hours and 30 minutes spent at the Statewide Museums Collection Center

The tour was very cool. I especially loved looking at all of the canoes and carriages. Learning how to make mounts was also interesting.

Lab Hours Week 1

1 hour and 20 minutes spent creating blog and adding URLs to my blog list
20 minutes spent looking up accession numbers
40 minutes spent at the museum pulling my objects and taking pictures
20 minutes spent uploading my object pictures to my blog