Collections Identification and Status Report for Select Bureau of Land Management Archaeological Collections

Summary

In July 1994, the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District entered into Interagency Agreement No. 1422P852-A4-0015 for the purpose of tracking collections produced under the provisions of the Antiquities Act of 1906 (P.L. 59-206) and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA; P.L. 96-95). The purpose of this task was to assist the BLM in NAGPRA compliance.

The St. Louis District was asked by BLM to identify and contact repositories in 35 states. The project was divided into two stages. Stage I focused on locating collections. Stage II was devoted to the completion of NAGPRA inventories at facilities with collections containing human remains.

In all, the remains of 750 individuals and 1981 funerary objects are curated at the American Museum of Natural History and the Haffenreffer Museum. The remaining collections consist of a single long bone fragment at Wichita State University, and a 1921 collection from Colorado at the American Museum of Natural History.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• USACE (MCX-CMAC) - Collections Inventory Reports Series

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Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Landowner(s): Bureau of Land Management

Sponsor(s): Bureau of Land Management Washington, D.C.

Repository(s): Yale University, Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conneticut; Florida Museum of History/Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee, Florida; University of Alaska Museum; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois; Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; Nevada State Museum; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York; Fowler Museum, Berkeley, California; University of California, Davis; Washington State University, Pullman, WA; State University of New York - Edwin Hall, Brockport, New York; Oklahoma Museum of Natural History/Stovall Museum University of Oklahoma, Earth Sciences Observatory Norman, Oklahoma; University of Pennsylvania Museum, University Park, Pennsylvania; Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; Smithsonian Institutions, Washington, D.C.; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Canada

Prepared By(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Submitted To(s): Bureau of Land Management Washington, D.C.

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