Artifact Report, Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Kansas City District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in September 2012. The St. Louis VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 project are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the St. Louis VCP laboratory. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Kansas City District collection, the same standard procedures and Fort Osage guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to Fort Osage for permanent curation.

The artifact database can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/426413/artifact-database-red-letter-shelter-23ja1703-2011

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Individual & Institutional Roles

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

Principal Investigator(s): John Peterson

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District

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

Repository(s): Fort Osage

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, finding aid, photographic material spreadsheet, scanned asset key, and select archival and artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include the archives database, additional archival and artifact photographs, box labels, document folder listing, field notes, initial data collection, and records removal sheets. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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