Raman Spectroscopy for Authentication of African Tribal Masks

Creator

Huzaifa Islam Shah, University of Northern IowaFollow
Joshua Sebree, University of Northern IowaFollow

Files

Document Type

Poster

Keywords

Masks, African--Testing; Masks, African--Forgeries;

Description

University of Northern Iowa museum’s collection includes some wooden African tribal masks and African wood samples . Authenticity of the masks was doubted, therefore 5 of the masks and 27 different African wood samples were analyzed using Raman spectroscopy to determine the authenticity of the masks. The data obtained suggested that none of the masks were made up of the wood samples from Africa examined in the project.

Publication Date

December 2018

Faculty Advisor

Joshua A. Sebree

Department

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Publisher

Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Copyright

©2018 Huzaifa Shah

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Shah, Huzaifa Islam and Sebree, Joshua, "Raman Spectroscopy for Authentication of African Tribal Masks" (2018). Fall 2018 - Chemical Analysis Class Projects. 11.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/chemanaly_fa2018/11