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, 13164-13165 [E6-3556]
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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.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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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Mexico has withdrawn from this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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funerary objects 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
Mexico that this notice has been
published.
Dated: February 10, 2006
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6–3556 Filed 3–13–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural
Item: Minnesota Museum of American
Art, St. Paul, MN
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 a cultural item in the
possession of the Minnesota Museum of
American Art, St. Paul, MN, that meets
the definition of ‘‘object of cultural
patrimony’’ 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
item. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
The one cultural item is a clan hat,
Xixch’i S’aaxw (Frog Hat), of the
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Kiks.adi people of the Sheet’ika. The
clan hat (#57.14.08), is estimated to
have been made in the 19th century and
is composed of polychrome alder wood,
sea lion whiskers, beads, and yarn; it is
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45⁄8 inches high x 141⁄8 inches long x 75⁄8
inches wide. The clan hat is carved in
a ‘‘jockey cap’’ form; the frog on the
skull of the hat is in low raised relief,
painted blue, red, and black; and
originally had inlaid abalone shells to
represent the eyes. The bill of the hat is
ochre, decorated with sea lion whiskers
and bead and yarn pendants. This clan
hat depicts the time of Russian contact.
The hat was purchased by the
Minnesota Museum of American Art in
1957 from the Portland Art Museum,
Portland, OR, and listed as
#48.3.724,2678 of the Portland Art
Museum’s Rasmussen collection. The
Portland Museum lists the work as
being purchased from Mrs. Billy
Williams, but the Rasmussen collection
was developed by Mr. Axel Rasmussen
who was superintendent of schools in
Skagway, AK. It is unclear if there is an
association between Mrs. Williams and
Mr. Rasmussen.
Representatives of the Central Council
of the Tlinglit & Haida Indian Tribes,
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specifically of the Kiks.adi Clan, have
identified this hat as an object of
cultural patrimony that is a vital part of
their ongoing ceremonial rites and
central to their scared beliefs, and no
single individual could sell or alienate
the clan hat. The clan hat is one of the
most significant objects a clan can have
and usually depicts the main crest of the
clan, or one of their crests they are
entitled to use, which has both social
and religious significance. Clan hats
serve to unify clan members, tie present´
day clan members to their shuka,
ancestral clan members, and link the
clan member to the animal crest
depicted thereon or the story connected
with the hat.
Officials of the Minnesota Museum of
American Art have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(D), the
cultural item described above has
ongoing historical, traditional, or
cultural importance central to the
Native American group or culture itself,
rather than property owned by an
individual. Officials of the Minnesota
Museum of American Art 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 object of
cultural patrimony and the Central
Council of the Tlinglit & Haida Indian
Tribes.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with this object of cultural
patrimony should contact Eunice
Haugen, Registrar and Exhibits
Coordinator, Minnesota Museum of
American Art, 50 West Kellogg
Boulevard, Suite 341, St. Paul,
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Minnesota 55102, telephone 651–266–
1033, before April 13, 2006.
Repatriation of the object of cultural
patrimony to the Central Council of the
Tlinglit & Haida Indian Tribes may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Minnesota Museum of American
Art is responsible for notifying Central
Council of the Tlinglit & Haida Indian
Tribes that this notice has been
published.
Dated: February 15, 2006.
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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
possession of the Gilcrease Museum,
Tulsa, OK, 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 9,097 unassociated funerary
objects are 45 whole and restored
ceramic vessels; 2,784 spindle whorls,
clay beads, and pot sherds; 1,403 daub
samples; 401 fire-cracked rocks,
hammerstones, celts, cores, and cobbles;
1,594 lithic flakes and tools, including
projectile points, scrapers, drills, and
burins; 2,558 faunal bones and bone and
antler tools; 13 mussel shells, shell
fragments, and shell beads; 238 turtle
shells and shell fragments; 13 pieces of
charcoal; 3 metal objects; 38 noncharred wood and floral samples; and 7
mineral specimens.
Between 1964 and 1968, human
remains and funerary objects were
removed from the Charlie MacDuffie
farm in Craighead County, AR, by
avocational archeologist Frank Soday.
The cultural items were deeded by gift
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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
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 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 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).
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) 621- 4795,
before April 13, 2006. Repatriation of the unassociated
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funerary objects 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 Mexico that
this notice has been published.
Dated: February 10, 2006
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-3556 Filed 3-13-06; 8:45 am]
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