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4 - While Edra's cataloging and active
conservation treatment projects provided a
measure of preservation for the collection,
Edra knew that she also needed to stabilize
the museum's environment to provide passive
conservation. As this would involve expensive
modifications to a National Register of Historic
Places listed building, she began an 8-year
odyssey to plan and secure funding for the
project. The project finally received a start
date in June 2006.
Once she has assured this important
cornerstone of protection for the collection
would take place, Edra finally felt able to
retire at the age of 76.
Edra Moore by Piute Butte pictograph panel
in 2003
3 - Edra first became aware of the fertility
carvings on Piute Butte in 1992. Throughout
the 1990s she investigated the butte and
identified many areas where humans modified
the rocks. Several different members of the
Native community informed Edra that they
considered the butte to be a sacred landscape.
Then in 2001, rock climbers asked State Parks
for permission to hold a bouldering event on
Piute Butte. Edra spearheaded a Edra Moore and Christina Swiden packing the
multidisciplinary study to protect the butte collection in 2007
from this damaging recreational activity.
However, she returned as a retired annuitant
The effort culminated in the museum's official to pack up the collection in 2007 at the start
classification as Antelope Valley Indian of the project and again in 2010 to help put
Museum State Historic Park in 2002, the everything back on exhibit when the project
butte's designation as a sacred landscape by was completed.
the Native American Heritage Commission in
2003, and publication of a report titled Toward Even in retirement, Edra was always willing to
Cultural Preserve Status for Piute Butte in provide information and advice to help out the
2004. museum. She will be sorely missed.
