Nellis AFB - Curation Documents

Part of: Nellis Air Force Base Cultural Resources Archive

Site Name Keywords
26NY218 • 26NY12 • 26NY377 • 26NY10848 • 26NY10886 • 26NY10942 • 26NY10873 • 26CK5498 • 26NY365 • 26LN3094

Other Keywords
Artifact Database • Looting • Artifact Inventory • unauthorized collection • NAGPRA • Oral History • Curation • Artifact Identification • Memorandum of Agreement • MOA

Culture Keywords
Historic

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Records Search / Inventory Checking

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Glass • Metal • Shell • Wood

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Nevada (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Clark (County) • Nye (County) • Las Vegas, Nevada • USA (Country) • Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-14 of 14)

ARPA Violation Report to NPS (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.
Archaeology and Cultural Resources report about ceramics removed from federal land near Lake Mead.
Central Nevada Museum, Tonopah, Request for Airplane Parts Review (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.
Correspondence regarding the potential unauthorized collection of plane crash parts.
Collections from Nellis Air Force Base: Sites, Materials, Curation Location (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos
Table listing artifacts and location from Nellis Air Force Base.
Correspondence between Nevada State Museum and Nellis Air Force Base (2004)
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Correspondence related to items curatied at the Nevada State Museum.
Memorandum of Agreement for Curation Services Nevada State Museum and US Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Loi Hopper. James G. Barmore.
MOA betweem the Nevada State Museum and Nellis Air Force Base.
Nellis Air Force Base Artifact Database (2020)
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Artifact database for sites found within the Nellis Air Force Base.
Nellis Air Force Base Artifacts Selected for Repatriation Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Final Artifact Analysis Results (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Haarklau.
From 1999 through 2001, Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) affected Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) consultation with 31 tribally designated cultural experts representing 16 tribes culturally affiliated to federal lands managed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in central and southern Nevada. Of the 1,941 artifacts comprising the Nellis AFB artifact collection, NAGPRA tribal consultants selected 147 objects for repatriation (Arnold 2003). These artifacts were collected...
Nellis Air Force Base Curated Artifacts at Nevada State Museum (2003)
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List of the sites and associated artifacts that were reviewed during an inventory of the NAFB artifact collection at Nevada State Museum and the corrections made to database entries.
Nellis Air Force Range Archaeological Site and Inventory Acreage Calculations (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.
Site inventory and acreage calculations for Nellis AFB.
NSM Collections Summary (2020)
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Summary of collections stored at the Nevada State Museum.
The Results of Interviews For NAGPRA Evaluations, Nellis Air Force Base (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Arnold.
This document describes the results of interviews from 1999 to 2002 among 31 members representing 16 tribes to identify artifacts in the NAFB collection that meet NAGPRA criteria for repatriation. The artifacts were recovered from Air Force lands in southern Nevada, with the boundaries shown in Figure 1. Interviews occurred among Native Americans at NAFB work sessions, with documentation by Richard Arnold, Spokesperson CGTO. A total of 131 of 2,195 artifacts were selected as meeting criteria for...
Tribal Letter: Press Conference Planning (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Natalie L. Collins.
Correspondence regarding a task force on unauthorized collection of artifacts.
U.S. Air Force 2016 Nevada State Museum Curation Report Nellis, Creech, and NTTR (2016)
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Nellis AFB has approximately 1,172 artifacts from 278 archaeological sites that are within the boundaries of Nevada Test and Training Range/NAFB. These artifacts were collected over the last 30 to 40 years. These items are housed at the Nevada State Museum repository in Carson City, Nevada.
U.S. Air Force, 2016 Nevada State Museum Curation Report Nellis, Creech, and NTTR and NAGPRA Reports (2016)
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On November 17 and 18, 2016 Garth Hayden from Ecosystem Management, Inc. (EMI) met with Nellis Cultural Resources Manager (CRM) Kish LaPierre to assist in the curation of artifacts at the Nevada State Museum curation facility in Carson City, NV. The artifacts that were curated were designated for Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) repatriation (see attached 2003 and 2004 NAGPRA reports). Mr. Hayden also assisted the CRM in confirming and correcting catalogue entries for...