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DocuSign Envelope ID: 16F7E188 -42F5- 4144- AF1B- 934E4ACOFE59 <br />c. Curation Fees <br />OSARC charges fees for curation and conservation services at $200.00 per cubic foot, or <br />$220.00 per standard archival storage box measuring 12" wide, 15" long, and 10" high. See <br />the Packaging and Labeling section below for more information on box sizes. <br />d. Accession Numbers <br />All collections to be submitted for curation must be assigned an accession number. <br />Accession numbers are site - specific, so collections containing materials from more than one <br />site will be assigned a separate accession number for each site. <br />Accession numbers can be obtained from the OSA Site Registrar in response to letter or <br />email requests, preferably when site numbers are requested. Accession numbers assigned by <br />the Registrar consist of a four -digit number for the year followed by a period and another <br />four -digit number that is consecutively assigned for each site, which starts over at 0001 each <br />calendar year. For example, the first accession number assigned in 2016 was designated as <br />2016.0001. <br />e. Provenience Numbers <br />It is the responsibility of the submitting party to assign a unique identifying number for each <br />artifact- or sample- yielding provenience on a site. As used here, the term provenience refers <br />to the smallest spatial unit designated during a field investigation, composed of both <br />horizontal and vertical parameters. For example, if artifacts were collected from two <br />different strata during the excavation of a shovel test, this constitutes two proveniences. <br />Provenience numbers should be appended to the end of the site's accession number, and <br />this combined number is the catalog number for any given artifact. For example, if a site is <br />assigned a general accession number 2016.0001, then any artifact from the first provenience <br />on the site will have the 12 -digit catalog number 2016.0001.0001. <br />A provenience number log should be provided listing all of the provenience numbers in a <br />collection along with their associated contextual information. See Inventories and Lists <br />section below for information on how provenience number logs should be submitted to <br />OSARC, and Sorting and Cataloging section below for more information regarding the <br />organization of collections. <br />III. Conservation Standards <br />For guidance concerning conservation needs in the field or laboratory, consult published sources <br />such as "A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist," by Catherine Sease (Archaeological <br />Research Tools, Volume 4, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987) or <br />"Caring for Artifacts After Excavation: Some Advice for Archaeologists," by Katherine R. Singley <br />(Historical Archaeology 15 (1):35 -48, 1981), or the National Park Service (NPS) Museum <br />Handbook, Part I: Museum Collections, Chapter 8 - Conservation Treatment, available online. <br />North Carolina Offace of State Archaeology — Archaeolo gical Investigation Standards and Guidelines (December 20 97) Page 31 <br />