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TAMU DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY REPOSITORY COLLECTIONS COMMITTEE Business Meeting October 13, 2008 COLLECTIONS COMMITTEE CHARGE: The Committee is to provide the Head of the Department with a definitive statement on the role of curation in
October 13, 2008
The Committee is to provide the Head of the Department with a definitive statement
by December 12, 2008. The report will be presented to the Anthropology [faculty] for discussion and a vote at the first faculty meeting January 5, 2009
Excerpts from Code of Ethics TAMU Department of Anthropology (Approved October 4, 1999)
A.1.c. To work for the long-term conservation
records; A.1.d. To consult actively with the affected individuals or group(s), with the goal of establishing a working relationship that can be beneficial to all parties involved.
C.4. Archaeologists should anticipate and provide for adequate and accessible long-term storage and curatorial facilities for all archaeological materials, records, and archives. C.6. All research projects should contain specific plans for conservation, preservation, and publication from the very outset, and funds should be secured for such purposes. C.7. No archaeological data generated by a Department of Anthropology archaeological excavation or survey are to be considered to be personal property.
Standards for handling and managing archaeological collections are discussed nationwide; our curation issues are not unique
2003
ARCHAEOLOGY: Curation in Crisis
Michael Bawaya
Science 24 August 2007
1025–1026
1996
2.) Depending on the recommendation for number 1 above, administratively where is the position of the curator to be placed and who is to be the curator's immediate supervisor?
Lead Office Assistant Business Coordinator I Administrative Assistant Curator of Anthropology GAR(s), Student Workers, & Volunteers IT Support and Services Collections Committee Six Faculty Advisors (from Archaeology, Biological Anthropology (Chair), Cultural Anthropology, Nautical Archaeology, CFSA, and CMAC )
Professor Department Head Chief Executive Officer
Fall 2008: 3 Work-study (2 ANTH, 1 BIMS); 3 volunteers (ANTH)
Responsibilities for the day-to-day operations of the Anthropology Repository:
for the curatorial needs of collections;
inventorying);
the repository's collections;
collection care;
collection for researchers concerning the collections and collections management procedures;
works cooperatively and jointly with faculty on collections care
4.) Where does the Department stand on NAGPRA? What has been done and what remains to be done to be in complete compliance?
TEXAS New Mexico Alaska
⌧ NAGPRA Summary—(funerary objects, etc) submitted 1993 ⌧ NAGPRA Inventory—original (human remains) submitted 1995 ⌧ NAGPRA Inventory (revised)—completed; not submitted NAGPRA Consultation—ongoing NAGPRA Notice of Inventory Completion—one ready to submit NAGPRA Notice of Intent to Repatriate—one ready to submit NAGPRA Notice of Intended Disposition—one ready to submit ?
Minimum Number of Individuals
(MNI) TEXAS TAMU NAGPRA Inventory = 190 National Park Service = 104 National Park Service = 61 Associated Funerary Objects (to be revised) ALASKA = 2 NEW MEXICO = undetermined (200+ and Associated Funerary Objects )
National NAGPRA Native American Consultation Database
List of Tribes—TEXAS
1.Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas (F)*—Ongoing consultation 2.Apache Tribe of Oklahoma (F) 3.Comanche Nation, Oklahoma (F)—Ongoing consultation 4.Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma (F) 5.Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico (F) 6.Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas (F)*—Ongoing consultation 7.Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma (F) 8.Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico (F) 9.White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona (F) 10.Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas (F)*—Ongoing consultation NOTE: F = Federally recognized NF = Non-federally recognized
Other known Tribes and Groups:
Non-Federally Recognized Tribes who claim affiliations in Texas:
Examples of how we are housing human remains
Archaeological (e.g., stone, bone, ceramic)
Biological/Environmental (e.g., floral, faunal, coprolites, pollen, sediment) Cultural (e.g., Bonfire Memorabilia Archive) Osteological (e.g., human remains) Teaching and reference (e.g., chipped stone, cook stone, casts, micro and macrobotanical, zooarchaeological) Associated records: all of the above
5.) Review a list of all collections maintained by the Department and a complete inventory of all the artifacts, collections, and records for each collection.
Anthropology Building (750 boxes)
pro bono
dollars Dulie Bell Building (300 boxes)
Riverside Warehouse (452 boxes)
1,000,000+ objects, samples, and reference collections
Other Collections Transferred
Retired Faculty Collections Transfer
6.) Review use of existing collections
2004
Archaeology 1) Texas Tech University Outgoing loan—Mammoth specimens (San Antonio) 2) TAMU student research—Faunal remains Camp Ford 3) Central Texas Ceramics Project 4) Texas National Guard—Deaccession and transfer collections to UTSA
2005
Archaeology 1) TAMU in-house loan—Archaeology teaching collection used for Material Culture class 2) Oklahoma Archeological Survey—Outgoing loan land snails Health and Disease (Gulf Coastal Plains burials) 3) Soil Conservation Service—Deaccession and transfer to UTSA Biological Anthropology 3) University at Albany—Diachonic Changes in H-G Dental Health and Disease (Gulf Coastal Plains burials)
2006
Archaeology 1) TAMU student research—Lithic study Granado Cave 2) TAMU in-house loan—Archaeology teaching collection used for Material Culture class 3) San Antonio Historic Preservation Office—Enoch Jones site collections 4) UTSA Institute of Texas Cultures—Digital images Camp Ford Biological Anthropology 5) University of Texas—Dental study
2007
Archaeology 1) TAMU student research—Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to characterize and source Rockport and Toyah Phase ceramics 2) Oklahoma Archeological Survey—Outgoing loan mammoth bone (San Antonio) 3) Harvard University and University of Texas—Sampling of whole Mimbres pottery vessels for instrumental neutron activation analysis Biological Anthropology 4) TAMU student research— Robusticity of muscle attachment sites and degenerative joint disease in the upper limb bones from Old Soccoro Mission
2008 Archaeology 1) Texas Tech University Outgoing loan—Pleistocene fauna specimens from the Cypress Creek site 2) Baylor University— Magnetic susceptibility analysis of late Quaternary sediments and soils collected from the Richard Beene site along the lower Medina River, south-central Texas 3) University of Maine—Hinds cave sediment control samples and profile 4) TAMU student research—Paleobotany class project using archaeological and replicated lithic tools from the Valley Branch site 5) TAMU student research—Zooarchaeology special studies on Richard Beene early Archaic assemblage Biological Anthropology 6) Prewitt and Associates (Austin)—Isotope study Reading site 7) TAMU student research—Linear enamel hypoplasia of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from the Reading site and Palm Harbor 8) TAMU student research—Old Soccoro Mission and NAN Ranch
7.) Should all the present collections be kept, or should collections be turned over to willing institutions, even if it does incur a one-time cost?
EXAMPLE: Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (Univ. of TX)
RECORDS 1 full drawer (21 – 27 linear in) $ 1,512.00 = $226,800 (ca. 150 drawers) GENERAL COLLECTIONS Same as records based on general collection drawer size of 28.5”x 25” x 3.5” ASSOCIATED MATERIALS 1 shelf (3 curation boxes) $ 1,512.00 = $757,008 (ca. 1502 boxes) HUMAN OSTEOLOGY 1 shelf $ 1,512.00 = $226,800 (ca. 450 boxes) NAGPRA FEE** $ 350.00 = $52,500 ACCESSION INVENTORY FEE*** $ 36.50/hour = ????
1.Promote our collections as an asset for researchers and anthropology students—develop a Collections webpage 2.Off-site record and data storage; 3.Exhibit planning and rotation
4) Next Curation Crisis: Digital preservation