You may be able to get away with one Deed of Gift form if you include a
clause about "all artifacts recovered from (name of excavation) from lands
held within (UTM, UTM, or Township/Range information, USGS quad information)
under the control of (name of donor) at the time of excavation." Seeing some
kind of proof (or knowing it's on file at the county records office) would
help too - in case someone later tried to claim they had some kind of
exclusive use lease or easement on that part of the land. If you identify
the boundaries by UTM coordinates (your archaeologists should know how to do
this), and make sure you're communicating with the land owner about ALL the
artifacts from that area, you should be okay with one form.

Amy Marshall
At 07:05 AM 5/11/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Here's my conundrum:  We are receiving material from a multi-year
>archaeological excavation project.  We're getting the landowner to
>sign a deed of gift form so that the artifacts can be accessioned
>into the museum's permanent collections. The project will last several
>years and comprise several different lots of material.  Can we get by with a
>single deed of gift form from the landowner?  Can he/she simply sign a
>deed of gift conveying all material resulting from Project X to the
>Museum, or does he/she need to separately deed already known lots of
>material?
>
>Alex Barker
>Dallas Museum of Natural History
>