Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Horner Collection, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 5683 [E6-1379]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 5683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1379]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Horner Collection, 
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Horner 
Collection, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, that meet the 
definition of ``unassociated funerary objects'' under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the cultural 
items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice.
    The Horner Collection, Oregon State University professional staff 
consulted with representatives of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm 
Springs Reservation of Oregon. The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 
Yakama Indian Nation, Washington, were advised of the cultural items, 
but did not participate in consultation.
    In 1936, Mr. Keith Chamberlain loaned two antelope spikes to the 
John B. Horner Museum of the Oregon Country, Oregon Agricultural 
College. The Oregon Agricultural College was renamed the Oregon State 
College in 1937, and became Oregon State University in 1962. In 1974, 
Mr. Chamberlain donated the two antelope spikes to the Horner Museum. 
Currently, cultural items from the Horner Museum are referred to as the 
Horner Collection, which is owned by, and in the possession of, Oregon 
State University. At that time, Mr. Chamberlain also donated an 
additional 36 cultural items to the Horner Collection. The cultural 
items are 14 bead necklaces, 3 mortars, 1 pestle, 2 gaming sticks, 1 
bow, 2 bone whistles, 1 axe head, 1 small bowl, 1 flintlock and bead, 1 
unknown lithic, 1 stone pendant, 2 sets of miscellaneous beads, 1 blue 
and white ceramic pendant, 1 horn jar, 1 copper pendant, 1 set of brass 
buttons, 1 metal pendant, and 1 set of loose copper beads.
    The cultural items were noted as being from ``Memaloose Island, 
Columbia River.'' It is unknown if they were from Lower Memaloose 
Island, Wasco County, OR, or Upper Memaloose Island, Klickitat County, 
WA. It is unknown if they were found by Mr. Chamberlain. The Memaloose 
Islands were used during the postcontact period by local Native 
American peoples for the burial of their dead. The Memaloose Islands 
are within the traditional territory of Chinook- and Sahaptin-speaking 
Indian groups represented today by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of 
the Yakama Nation, Washington and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm 
Springs Reservation of Oregon. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm 
Springs Reservation of Oregon has submitted a claim for the 
unassociated funerary objects.
    Officials of the Horner Collection, Oregon State University have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 38 cultural 
items described above are reasonably believed to have been placed with 
or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part 
of the death rite or ceremony and are believed, by a preponderance of 
the evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a 
Native American individual. Officials of the Horner Collection, Oregon 
State University also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 
(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be 
reasonably traced between the 38 unassociated funerary objects and the 
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Washington, and 
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should 
contact Sabah Randhawa, Executive Vice President and Provost, 
President's Office, Oregon State University, 600 Kerr Administration 
Building, Corvallis, OR 97331, telephone (541) 737-8260, before March 
6, 2006. Repatriation of the 38 unassociated funerary objects to the 
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon may 
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
    The Horner Collection, Oregon State University is responsible for 
notifying the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 
Washington and Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of 
Oregon and that this notice has been published.

    Dated: January 20, 2006.
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-1379 Filed 2-1-06; 8:45 am]
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