13 Tex. Admin. Code § 29.4 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter and the Antiquities Code of Texas, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Accession--means the formal acceptance of
a collection and it's recording into the holdings of a curatorial facility and
generally includes a transfer of title. For held-in-trust collections,
stewardship but not title is transferred to the curatorial facility.
(2) Accessions inventory--means an inventory
conducted at the time of accessioning when a collection or historical item is
placed at the designated curatorial facility. It is similar to a baseline
inventory in that it is comprised of the categories represented in the
collection, quantities, and linear feet of documentation as
appropriate.
(3) Antiquities--means
the tangible aspects of the past, which relate to human life and culture. Some
examples include objects, written histories, architecture, cultural traditions
and patterns, art forms, and technologies.
(4) Artifact--means an object that has been
removed from an archeological site.
(5) Baseline inventory--means the most basic
inventory done by summary count within general categories (similar to an entry
or accessions inventory).
(6)
Cataloging--means assigning an object to an established classification system
and having a record containing identification, provenience, accession and
catalog numbers, and location of that object in the collection storage
area.
(7) Certification--means a
process through which a curatorial facility establishes that it has achieved
certain standards and follows acceptable practices with respect to its
collections.
(8) Certified
curatorial facility--means a museum or repository that has been certified by
the Commission for the purposes of curating state-associated
collections.
(9) Collection--means
an associated set of objects, samples, records, or documents or an associated
set of documents only.
(10)
Commission--means the Texas Historical Commission and its staff.
(11) Conservation--means scientific
laboratory process for cleaning, stabilizing, restoring, and preserving
artifacts.
(12) Conservation
Survey--means inspection and documentation by facility staff, of condition of
collection objects on an ongoing basis as part of routine collections
management work.
(13) Cultural
resource--means any building, site, district, structure, object, historic
shipwreck, data, and locations of historical, archeological, educational, or
scientific interest, including, but not limited to, prehistoric and historic
Native American or aboriginal campsites, dwellings, and habitation sites,
archeological sites of every character, treasure embedded in the earth, sunken
or abandoned ships and wrecks of the sea or any part of the contents thereof,
maps, records, documents, books, artifacts, and implements of culture in any
way related to the inhabitants' prehistory, history, natural history,
government, or culture. Examples of cultural resources include Native American
mounds and campgrounds, aboriginal lithic resource areas, early industrial and
engineering sites, rock art, early cottage, and craft industry sites, bison
kill sites, cemeteries, battlegrounds, all manner of historical structures,
local historical records, etc.
(14)
Curatorial facility--means a museum or repository that professionally manages
collections on a long term basis.
(15) Deaccession--means the permanent removal
of an object or collection from the holdings of a curatorial
facility.
(16) Designated
curatorial facility--means any curatorial facility that is holding or seeking
to hold any state associated collection on behalf of the Commission.
(17) Destructive analysis--means destroying
all or a portion of an object or sample to gain specialized information. For
purposes of these rules, it does not include analysis of objects or samples
prior to their being accessioned by a curatorial facility.
(18) Disposal--means the discard of an object
or sample after being recovered and prior to accession, or after
deaccession.
(19) Held-in-trust
agreement--means the document signed by the Commission and the designated
curatorial facility that provides for the transfer of stewardship to the
curatorial facility for the state-associated collection, provides the
state-associated collection's accession number and accessions inventory, and
notes any conditions or restrictions.
(20) Held-in-trust collection--means those
state-associated collections under the authority of the Texas Historical
Commission that are placed in a curatorial facility for care and management;
stewardship is transferred to that curatorial facility but not
ownership.
(21) Inventory--means a
physically-checked, itemized list of the objects in a curatorial facility's
holdings. Itemized refers to having some sort of categorization, whether it be
object-by-object or some type of grouping. Inventory is usually performed by
numerical count, but weight may be considered in addition to or instead of a
count, where it may be appropriate.
(22) Museum--means a legally organized
not-for-profit institution, essentially educational in nature; having a
formally stated mission; with a professionally trained staff that uses and
interprets objects for the public through regularly scheduled programs and
exhibits; with a program of documentation, care, and use of collection or
tangible objects; and having a program of maintenance and presentation of
exhibits.
(23) Political
subdivision--means a local government entity created and operating under the
laws of this state, including a city, county, school district, or special
district created under the Texas Constitution, Article III, Section 52(b)(1) or
(2), or Article XVI, Section 59.
(24) Preventive conservation--means to
maintain the collections in stable condition through preventive maintenance,
condition surveys, environmental controls, and pest management.
(25) Public lands--means non-federal public
lands that are owned or controlled by the State of Texas or any of its
political subdivisions, including the tidelands, submerged land, and the bed of
the sea within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas.
(26) Relocation inventory--means a
physically-checked, itemized list of a specific subset of objects that have
been moved from their permanent location within the holdings of the curatorial
facility.
(27) Repository--means a
permanent, not-for-profit educational or research-oriented agency or
institution, having a professionally trained staff, that provides in-perpetuity
legal housing and curation of collections.
(28) Significance--means a trait attributable
to sites, buildings, structures and objects of historical, architectural, and
archeological (cultural) value which are eligible for designation to State
Antiquities Landmark status and protection under the Antiquities Code of Texas.
Similarly, a trait attributable to properties included in or determined
eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
(29) Site--means any place or location
containing physical evidence of human activity. Examples of sites include: the
location of prehistoric or historic occupations or activities, a group or
district of buildings or structures that share a common historical context or
period of significance, and designed landscapes such as parks and
gardens.
(30) Spot-check
inventory--means an organized location search to produce a physically-checked,
itemized list of a predetermined subset of objects for which the curatorial
facility is responsible.
(31)
State-associated collections--means the collections owned by the State and
under the authority of the Texas Historical Commission. This includes the
following:
(A) Permitted collections--means
collections that are the result of work governed by the Texas Antiquities Code
of Texas on land or under waters belonging to the State of Texas or any
political subdivision of the State requiring the issuance of a permit by the
Commission.
(B) Non-permitted
collections--means collections that are the result of work governed by the
Antiquities Code on land or under waters belonging to the State of Texas or any
political subdivision of the State conducted by Commission personnel without
the issuance of a permit.
(C)
Purchased collections--means collections that are the result of the acquisition
of significant historical items by the Commission through Texas Historical
Artifacts Acquisition Program or use of other State funds.
(D) Donated collections--means collections
that are the result of a gift, donation, or bequest to the
Commission.
(E) Court-action
collections--means collections that are awarded to the Commission by a court
through confiscation of illegally-obtained archeological artifacts or any other
material that may be awarded to the Commission by a court of law.
(32) State Antiquities
Landmark--means an archeological site, archeological collection, ruin,
building, structure, cultural landscape, site, engineering feature, monument or
other object, or district that is eligible to be designated as a landmark or is
already officially designated as a landmark.
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