GRACE KATTERMAN

Grace Katterman received her MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies in 1986 from the University of Arizona and continued several years in Clothing and Textiles until the department closed without awarding further degrees. During this time she was also employed in textile conservation by the Western Archaeological and Conservation Center, a National Park Service objects repository in Tucson. She has since retired, but continues under contract as a textile conservator with this facility. Grace has been active in textile instruction, research and conservation in Peru for over 15 years. She has authored several
articles about major south coast textile collections and continues presenting her archaeological textile class in Peru and her personal study of Peruvian textiles. Grace is a member of AIC, SAA and TSA.

Jonathan Kent received his MA in Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University and his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982. His research has focused on the exploitation and domestication of Andean camelids. He is currently professor of Anthropology at The Metropolitan State College of Denver, where he has taught since 1986. He is also a professor at The Universidad Nacional de Trujillo in Peru. He is currently the co-director of the Proyecto Arqueologico Santa Rita B along with Professor Teresa Rosales-Tham of the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. The project began in 1998 and is projected to last a minimum of ten years.