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.

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

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

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.

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

Detail of a mthing shog (blue-black) manuscript containing the Praise to 21 Taras. Private collection of R. Spelker.

Detail. Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript on amatl. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.

Detail of the scribal work and paper of the Newari Buddhist Pañcarakṣā sūtra. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00015.