Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 13163-13164 [E6-3555]
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affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Randy Ramer, Curator of
Anthropology, Gilcrease Museum, 1400
Gilcrease Museum Road, Tulsa, OK
74127–2100, telephone (918) 596–2743,
before April 13, 2006. Repatriation of
the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Quapaw Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Gilcrease Museum is responsible
for notifying the Quapaw Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma that this notice has
been published.
Dated: February 10, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and
Arizona State Museum, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
in the control of the U.S. Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Washington, DC, and in the physical
custody of the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The
human remains and associated funerary
object were removed from a site within
the boundaries of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Pinal County, AZ.
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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary object. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Arizona State Museum
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
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Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico has withdrawn from this
consultation. The Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Arizona is acting on behalf
of the Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono
O’odham Nation of Arizona; and
themselves.
At an unknown date between 1931
and 1934, human remains representing
one individual were removed from a
cremation feature at an unknown site in
the vicinity of Sacaton (AZ U:14:--), Gila
River Indian Reservation, Pinal County,
AZ, by Carl A. Moosberg. No known
individual was identified. The one
associated funerary object is a Sacaton
Red-on-buff jar in which the human
remains had been placed subsequent to
cremation.
The vessel and the human remains
were donated to the Arizona State
Museum by Carl A. Moosberg in 1935.
In 1953, the vessel and the remains were
sent to the Chicago Natural History
Museum (now the Field Museum of
Natural History) as part of an exchange.
In December 2005, the Field Museum
returned the vessel and the remains to
the Arizona State Museum. Additional
human remains from the same site,
representing a minimum of one
individual, were reported in a Notice of
Inventory Completion published in the
Federal Register on December 22, 2004
(FR Doc. 04–28000, page 76781).
Based on characteristics of the
mortuary pattern and the attributes of
the ceramic style, this burial has been
identified as being associated with the
Sedentary phase of the Hohokam
archeological tradition, which spanned
the years circa A.D. 950–1150.
Continuities of mortuary practices,
ethnographic materials, and technology
indicate affiliation of Hohokam
settlements with present-day O’odham
(Piman), Pee Posh (Maricopa), and
Puebloan cultures. Oral traditions
documented for the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
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Zuni Reservation, New Mexico support
affiliation with Hohokam sites in central
Arizona.
Officials of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Arizona State Museum have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Arizona
State Museum also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A),
the one object described above is
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. Lastly,
officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and Arizona State Museum have also
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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary object and the Ak
Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Gila River Indian Community
of the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary object should
contact John Madsen, Repatriation
Coordinator, Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721, telephone (520) 621–4795, before
April 13, 2006. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary
object to the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Arizona State Museum is
responsible for notifying the Ak Chin
Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila
River Indian Community of the Gila
River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the Salt
River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono
O’odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 49 / Tuesday, March 14, 2006 / Notices
Mexico that this notice has been
published.
Dated: February 10, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6–3555 Filed 3–13–06; 8:45 am]
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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington,
DC, and Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
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
control of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Washington, DC, and in the physical
custody of the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 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 113 cultural items are 38 ceramic
bowl fragments, 7 ceramic bowls, 3
ceramic jars, 1 ceramic plate, 11 ceramic
vessels, 1 stone ring, 9 projectile points,
41 shell and stone beads, 1 stone palette
fragment, and 1 stone pendant.
A detailed assessment of the cultural
items was made by Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Arizona State Museum
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico has withdrawn from this
consultation. The Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Arizona is acting on behalf
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of the Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono
O’odham Nation of Arizona; and
themselves.
On unknown dates between 1931 and
1934, 43 cultural items were removed
from cremation features at an unknown
site in the vicinity of Sacaton (AZ U:14:-), Gila River Indian Reservation, Pinal
County, AZ, by Carl A. Moosberg. The
cultural items are 1 stone pendant, 1
ceramic bowl, and 41 shell and stone
beads. In 1935, the 43 cultural items
were donated to the Arizona State
Museum by Mr. Moosberg. In 1953, the
43 cultural items were sent to the
Chicago Natural History Museum (now
the Field Museum of Natural History) as
part of an exchange. In 2005, the Field
Museum returned the cultural items to
the Arizona State Museum.
Based on characteristics of the
mortuary pattern and the attributes of
the ceramic style, the cultural items
from AZ U:14:-- have been identified as
being associated with the Hohokam
archeological tradition, which spanned
the years circa A.D. 500–1350/1400.
In 1934 to 1935, 70 cultural items
were removed during legally authorized
archeological excavations conducted by
the Gila Pueblo Foundation of Arizona,
at the Snaketown site (AZ U:13:1 ASM),
on the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Pinal County, AZ. The cultural items are
1 ceramic plate, 6 ceramic bowls, 3
ceramic jars, 11 ceramic vessels, 38
ceramic bowl fragments, 1 stone ring, 1
stone palette fragment, and 9 projectile
points. At an unknown date prior to
1950, the Gila Pueblo Foundation sent
the stone ring and the 9 projectile points
to the Field Museum of Natural History
as part of an exchange. In 1950, the
Arizona State Museum assumed
repository responsibilities for the earlier
Gila Pueblo Foundation collections. In
1953, the Arizona State Museum sent
the ceramic plate, 6 ceramic bowls, 3
ceramic jars, 11 ceramic vessels, and 38
ceramic bowl fragments to the Chicago
Natural History Museum as part of an
exchange. In 2005, the Field Museum of
Natural History returned the 69 cultural
items to the Arizona State Museum. In
2005, the stone palette fragment was
found in the museum collections of the
Arizona State Museum. Other
unassociated funerary objects from this
site were published in two Notices of
Intent to Repatriate in the Federal
Register on March 20, 2001 (FR Doc.
01–6897, pages 15741–42), and
December 22, 2004 (FR Doc. 04–27999,
pages 76779–80).
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The archeological evidence, including
characteristics of portable material
culture, attributes of ceramic styles,
domestic and ritual architecture, site
organization, and canal-based
agriculture of the settlement places the
Snaketown site within the
archeologically-defined Hohokam
tradition, and within the Phoenix Basin
local variant of that tradition. The
occupation of the Snaketown site spans
the years circa A.D. 500/700–1100/1150.
Continuities of mortuary practices,
ethnographic materials, and technology
indicate affiliation of Hohokam
settlements with present-day O’odham
(Piman), Pee Posh (Maricopa), and
Puebloan cultures. Oral traditions
documented for the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico support
affiliation with Hohokam sites in central
Arizona.
Officials of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Arizona State Museum have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(B), the 113 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs
and Arizona State Museum 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
unassociated funerary objects and the
Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Gila River Indian Community
of the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact John Madsen,
Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 6214795, before April 13, 2006.
Repatriation of the unassociated
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in the physical custody of the
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The human
remains and associated funerary object were removed from a site within
the boundaries of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Pinal County, AZ.
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 Native
American human remains and associated funerary object. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Bureau of
Indian Affairs and Arizona State Museum professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the Ak Chin Indian Community of
the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico has withdrawn from this consultation. The Gila
River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona is
acting on behalf of the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono O'odham
Nation of Arizona; and themselves.
At an unknown date between 1931 and 1934, human remains
representing one individual were removed from a cremation feature at an
unknown site in the vicinity of Sacaton (AZ U:14:--), Gila River Indian
Reservation, Pinal County, AZ, by Carl A. Moosberg. No known individual
was identified. The one associated funerary object is a Sacaton Red-on-
buff jar in which the human remains had been placed subsequent to
cremation.
The vessel and the human remains were donated to the Arizona State
Museum by Carl A. Moosberg in 1935. In 1953, the vessel and the remains
were sent to the Chicago Natural History Museum (now the Field Museum
of Natural History) as part of an exchange. In December 2005, the Field
Museum returned the vessel and the remains to the Arizona State Museum.
Additional human remains from the same site, representing a minimum of
one individual, were reported in a Notice of Inventory Completion
published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2004 (FR Doc. 04-
28000, page 76781).
Based on characteristics of the mortuary pattern and the attributes
of the ceramic style, this burial has been identified as being
associated with the Sedentary phase of the Hohokam archeological
tradition, which spanned the years circa A.D. 950-1150.
Continuities of mortuary practices, ethnographic materials, and
technology indicate affiliation of Hohokam settlements with present-day
O'odham (Piman), Pee Posh (Maricopa), and Puebloan cultures. Oral
traditions documented for the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa
(Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of
the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation,
Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico support affiliation with Hohokam sites in
central Arizona.
Officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Arizona State Museum
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human
remains described above represent the physical remains of one
individual of Native American ancestry. Officials of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs and Arizona State Museum also have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the one object described above is
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. Lastly, officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Arizona
State Museum have also 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 Native American human remains and associated
funerary object and the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the
Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation,
Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
object should contact John Madsen, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona
State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520)
621-4795, before April 13, 2006. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object to the Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Arizona State Museum is responsible for notifying the Ak Chin
Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona;
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation
of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
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Mexico that this notice has been published.
Dated: February 10, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-3555 Filed 3-13-06; 8:45 am]
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