Christine Giuntini

Conservator Christine Giuntini is responsible for textile and organic artifact conservation in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. She has created or refined the mounting and exhibition techniques for flat and complex artifacts in over thirty museum exhibitions. Her research focuses on the study of materials and methods of manufacture of African and Indonesian ethnographic textiles; archaeological feather works and fabrics from South America; and, composite works from Africa, Oceania, and the New World. She has contributed to the Museum's publications, including technical essays for The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design without End (2008) and Peruvian Featherworks: Art of the Precolumbian Era (2012).