Principal Investigators: S. Homes Hogue, Cailin Murray, and Christine Thompson
Project Summary
The
Department of Anthropology, Ball State University (BSU) will execute a
Consultation and Documentation Grant to determine the disposition of their
current collections of culturally unidentified (CUI) human remains and
associated funerary objects (AFOs).
Partners include three federally recognized tribes that may have
geographic claims to the CUI human remains and AFOs in BSU’s collections and
were not available to consult in our 2012 NAGPRA Consultation and Documentation
Grant. In conjunction with the 2012
NAGPRA grant, it is expected that up to 23 Notices of Inventory Completion will
be submitted, representing virtually all the human remains collections
currently in BSU’s possession. The
grant will fund pre-consultation planning and tribal consultation travel
expenses for two tribes that have provided attached support letters. Grant activities will also include the updating
of a human remains and AFO database as necessary. Additional rehabilitation and rehousing of
human remains and AFOs will take place based on tribal input. The NAGPRA Culturally Unidentifiable (CUI)
and Culturally Affiliated (CA) Native American Inventories Databases will be
updated with the results of this Consultation and Documentation Grant.