Detail of a 19th-20th-c. manual for divination and astrology ('Bras rtsis vai dkar dgongs don dri med kun phan me long) in dBu can script. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan M11

Decorative and protective cloth ‘robe’ and ‘belt’ wrapped around 2 pothi-style manuscripts. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00055 and MSS 00056.

Head of Special Collections, David Fernandez, delivers the introduction to the Ethiopic Book Heritage Event. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

A Dino-Lite digital microscope’s ultraviolet and near infrared settings reveal a repair made to an early printed copy of the Arba’ah Turim (Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Friedberg 00131). Photo: Jessica Lockhart

Conservator and curator Amanda McLeod (Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation) filming traditional care of wampum belts at National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Cultural Resource Center, near Washington DC, with filmmaker Chris Monette.

Chris Monette, Melissa Moreton, and Amanda McLeod filming at the exhibition “Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations,” National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Filmmaker Chris Monette filming Amanda with wampum belts in the conservation lab at the NMAI Cultural Resource Centre in Suitland, Maryland.