Native Paint Revealed
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    • About Native Paint Revealed >
      • What's New
      • Services >
        • Consultation and Research
        • Pigment Analysis
        • Restoration
  • Publications & Articles
    • New Publication: Revealing Blue on the Northern Northwest Coast >
      • Coloring the Native Northwest Coast
      • NW Coast Ochres
      • Celadonite and Vivianite: Green and Blue on the Northwest Coast
      • A Thin Red Line: Pigments and Paints on Coast Salish Totem Poles
      • Vegetable or Mineral
  • Projects and Research
    • The Vivianite Chronicles
    • A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire
    • The William Shelton Story Pole
    • Snetlum Canoe
  • Traditional NWC Native Paint
    • Design Elements and Distinctions
    • Pigments vs Dyes
    • Binders
    • Trade Colors on the Northwest Coast >
      • Vermilion
      • Red Lead
      • The Blues, Prussian Blue
      • Ultramarine
    • Tools >
      • Traditional brushes, images
      • Making traditional style brushes
      • Paint Dishes & Mortars
  • Science and Art
  • Independent Study, Classes, Lectures, Workshops
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SEM/EDX and pXRF analysis of pigments, paints and other materials to obtain the elemental compositions and correctly identify materials. Analysis helps determine if the materials are traditional to the NW Coast or manufactured. Elemental data and high resolution microscopy can provide information about where the materials originated, where the object was made, match sibling objects, and potentially, date of manufacture and who created them. 
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​This image shows diatoms in a paint layer. Diatoms can provide information such as the location of an artifact's manufacture. Paint can give us a great deal of information, not just about the paint itself, but also the environment in which an object was made and the people who made it. Paint can fill gaps in our knowledge of artifacts; it can help piece together an object's provenance, history and time.        ​

We also provide research of pigments, artifacts, artists, and materials

~Consultation for proper conservation and storage of artifacts appropriate to the          materials

~Consultation for curating exhibits of artifacts appropriate to the materials

~Presentations and workshops about NW Coast Native art, pigments and paint            technology

~Making traditional paint from natural pigments
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Native Paint Revealed also offers repair and restoration of NW Coast Native artifacts such as,
Bentwood boxes and chests
Masks
Rattles
Drums
Regalia
​Wood and woven hats 

For more information about services and fees, or pigments, paint technology, and NW Coast Native art, please contact Melonie Ancheta at: [email protected],
or call: 360-656-6771.
​Thank you for your interest. 
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  • Home
    • About Native Paint Revealed >
      • What's New
      • Services >
        • Consultation and Research
        • Pigment Analysis
        • Restoration
  • Publications & Articles
    • New Publication: Revealing Blue on the Northern Northwest Coast >
      • Coloring the Native Northwest Coast
      • NW Coast Ochres
      • Celadonite and Vivianite: Green and Blue on the Northwest Coast
      • A Thin Red Line: Pigments and Paints on Coast Salish Totem Poles
      • Vegetable or Mineral
  • Projects and Research
    • The Vivianite Chronicles
    • A Totem Pole History: The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire
    • The William Shelton Story Pole
    • Snetlum Canoe
  • Traditional NWC Native Paint
    • Design Elements and Distinctions
    • Pigments vs Dyes
    • Binders
    • Trade Colors on the Northwest Coast >
      • Vermilion
      • Red Lead
      • The Blues, Prussian Blue
      • Ultramarine
    • Tools >
      • Traditional brushes, images
      • Making traditional style brushes
      • Paint Dishes & Mortars
  • Science and Art
  • Independent Study, Classes, Lectures, Workshops