Who can CAT-scan a worn, carved inscription?
I wonder if any readers of the Chinook Jargon blog have a connection, or an inspiration:
Who can CAT-scan a worn, carved inscription? Or PET scan. Or X-ray. Or ultrasound.
There are more Chinook Jargon texts that can be recovered, if sensitive enough imaging technology is available.
I’d love to be connected to someone with the technical know-how.
Thanks for your suggestions!
(Naika wawa aias mirsi kopa msaika)
–Dave Robertson–
Dave is this in relation to CP grave markers or something else? Anyone get in touch with you? I know some people, but wouldn’t hold out hope.
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I’m happy to have this subject brought up again. Nobody has contacted me about this.
Yes, this is about the “Chinuk Pipa” (Duployan shorthand) grave markers in southern interior BC.
Seems like a really do-able project, which local communities might appreciate as it could identify who’s in certain otherwise unidentified old graves. Bridge-building needs to happen…
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Asked a friend/colleague who did her master’s in x-ray fluoresce techniques in archeology, but unfortunately she was using it for chemical characterization of obsidian. I know that the technology has been used for epigraphy, but I have never used it myself for that purpose and neither has she.
I think this would really require a grant and the local FN, maybe the historical society, and a University archeology dept. working together to get it done. Lots of organization, work, and desire from the local communities required.
I can keep it in the back of my mind at any rate. Personally I’m more familiar with photogrammetry and I don’t think that would help here 😦
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