Idaho State University assistant history professor Yolonda Youngs has received a $39,000 grant to preserve American Indian artifacts at Grand Teton National Park with 3D scans.

The grant, from the National Park Service’s National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), will support Youngs’ project Digital 3D Preservation and Documentation for Historic Cultural Landscape and Museum Collections, Grand Teton National Park, which will scan historic, social and cultural objects in the David T. Vernon Collection of American Indian art (1830-1940) that are part of the Grand Teton National Park Museum Collection.

Youngs is the principal investigator on the grant, and Donna Delparte, assistant professor of geosciences at ISU, is the co-principal investigator. They collaborated with Grand Teton National Park Museum Director and Tribal Liaison Bridgette Guild, and the Acting Cultural Resource Specialist, Elizabeth Engle.

The NCPTT received 62 complete applications, all of which underwent peer review and a national panel review. Following the reviews, 12 grants worth $427,000 were awarded.