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

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.1994年7月，美国内政部土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management, BLM）与美国陆军工程兵团圣路易斯区签署第1422P852-A4-0015号跨部门协议，旨在对依据1906年《古物法》（Public Law 59-206）及《考古资源保护法》（Archaeological Resources Protection Act, ARPA；Public Law 96-95）相关条款所产生的考古藏品进行追踪管理。本任务的核心目标为协助土地管理局完成《北美原住民墓葬保护与归还法》（Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, NAGPRA）规定的合规工作。 土地管理局委托圣路易斯区对35个州内的考古藏品保管机构开展识别与联络工作。本项目划分为两个实施阶段：第一阶段聚焦考古藏品的定位与溯源；第二阶段则针对藏有人体遗骸的文博机构，完成符合NAGPRA要求的藏品清查与建档工作。 经统计，共计750具个体遗骸及1981件丧葬器物分别由美国自然历史博物馆与哈芬勒弗博物馆收藏保管。剩余藏品包括威奇托州立大学所藏的单根长骨碎片，以及美国自然历史博物馆馆藏的1921年出自科罗拉多州的一批考古藏品。