Notice of Inventory Completion: State of Alaska, Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK and Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK, 42096-42097 [E9-19982]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
42096
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 160 / Thursday, August 20, 2009 / Notices
and for the reburial to occur contingent
on the publication of a Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal
Register. This notice fulfills that
requirement.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact the Forest Archaeologist,
Daniel Boone National Forest,
Winchester, KY 40391, telephone (859)
745–3138, before September 21, 2009.
Disposition of the human remains to the
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma;
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of
North Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe
of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe,
Oklahoma; and United Keetoowah Band
of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Daniel Boone National Forest is
responsible for notifying the AbsenteeShawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma;
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians of North
Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma;
and United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this
notice has been published.
Dated: July 20, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9–19971 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312–50–S
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: The
Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
sroberts on DSKD5P82C1PROD with NOTICES
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 possession of The Public
Museum, Grand Rapids, MI. The human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from an unknown site in
or near Bay City, Bay County, MI.
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 objects. The
VerDate Nov<24>2008
16:07 Aug 19, 2009
Jkt 217001
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
was made by The Public Museum’s
professional staff in consultation with
the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa
Indians, Michigan and Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan.
At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of three
individuals were removed from a burial
mound at an unknown location in or
near Bay City, Bay County, MI. In 1917,
the human remains were purchased by
The Public Museum from E.C. Crane. No
known individuals were identified. The
19 associated funerary objects are 2
copper kettles, 14 stone flakes, 2
scrapers, and 1 hammerstone.
Museum records indicate the material
is from ‘‘mound b2,’’ an unknown site
that is not recorded in the Michigan
State Historic Preservation Office
records. Museum records indicate that
the human remains were removed from
burial mounds, but do not indicate
where the removal was for the objects.
However, since the objects were found
stored with the human remains and are
consistent with other associated
funerary objects removed from the Bay
City area from burial mounds, the
cultural items have been determined to
be funerary objects associated with
these individuals. The remains of one
individual are associated with copper
kettles suggesting a historic date, and
the remaining two individuals were
associated with the lithic artifacts,
suggesting an unknown earlier context.
The associated funerary objects indicate
this was a multicomponent mound, and
that an historic burial was intrusive to
an earlier mound context.
Based on archeological expert
opinion, the human remains and
associated funerary objects are from a
site located within the Saginaw River
watershed which has been inhabited by
both the Ottawa and Chippewa people,
with the Chippewa becoming the
dominant group in the Saginaw River
Valley by the end of the 17th century.
Based on consultation with both the
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of
Michigan and Little Traverse Bay Bands
of Odawa Indians, Michigan, as well as
historical, geographical, and
archeological evidence, The Public
Museum’s professional staff reasonably
believe the human remains and
associated funerary objects are affiliated
with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian
Tribe of Michigan.
Officials of The Public Museum have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
PO 00000
Frm 00050
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
remains of three individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of The
Public Museum also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A),
the 19 cultural items described above
are reasonably believed to have been
placed with or near individual remains
at the time of death or later as part of
the death rite or ceremony. Lastly,
officials of The Public Museum 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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects and the
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of
Michigan.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Marilyn Merdzinski, Director of
Collections and Preservation, The
Public Museum, 272 Pearl St. NW.,
Grand Rapids, MI 49504, telephone
(616) 456–3521, before September 21,
2009. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
of Michigan may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Public Museum is responsible for
notifying the Little Traverse Bay Bands
of Odawa Indians, Michigan and
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of
Michigan that this notice has been
published.
Dated: July 9, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9–19978 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312–50–S
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: State
of Alaska, Alaska State Office of
History and Archaeology, Anchorage,
AK and Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK
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. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains in the control of the State of
Alaska, Alaska Office of History and
Archaeology, Anchorage, AK, and in the
possession of the Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK.
E:\FR\FM\20AUN1.SGM
20AUN1
sroberts on DSKD5P82C1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 160 / Thursday, August 20, 2009 / Notices
The human remains were removed from
Chiniak, AK.
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. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made on behalf of the
Alaska State Office of History and
Archaeology by Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository staff in
consultation with representatives of
Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi
Village (aka Woody Island); Natives of
Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun’aq Tribe of
Kodiak.
Between 1989 and 1991, human
remains representing a minimum of
three individuals were removed from
the Rice Ridge site (49–KOD–00363)
near Chiniak, AK, during an excavation
by Philomena Hausler Knecht, a
Harvard University graduate student. At
the conclusion of the excavation all of
these human remains were taken to the
Kodiak Area Native Association’s
Alutiiq Culture Center for study and
storage. In April 1995, the entire site
collection was transferred to the newly
founded Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository where they
are now stored in association with
accession AM19. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
The human remains from Rice Ridge
were found spread in the site’s lower
midden deposits, and not in association
with identified burials. With the
exception of 13 teeth and a few small
cranial fragments, the remains were
identified as human after the excavation
and were found in faunal samples over
a period of years.
The Rice Ridge site is a large,
prehistoric deposit that lies near the
coast of Chiniak Bay, on northern
Kodiak Island in Alaska’s Kodiak
archipelago. Carbon dates and
temporally diagnostic artifacts illustrate
that the site contains a series of distinct
occupations that span the Ocean Bay
tradition, with initial settlement at
about 7100 BP and site abandonment
after 4400 BP. The human remains
described above were found in
association with midden deposits at the
site. Depth measurements indicate that
the human remains are primarily
associated with the deeper and thus
older levels of the deposit and indicate
an early known expression of the Ocean
Bay tradition. Recent archeological
VerDate Nov<24>2008
16:07 Aug 19, 2009
Jkt 217001
research in the Kodiak archipelago and
Chiniak Bay region specifically
illustrates that the Ocean Bay tradition
is ancestral to the sequent Kachemak
tradition, which is in turn ancestral to
the Koniag tradition observed at historic
contact. Many Kodiak archeologists
believe that modern Alutiiqs can trace
their ancestors back to the Ocean Bay
tradition. As such, human remains from
the Rice Ridge site are presumed to be
Native American and most closely
affiliated with the contemporary Native
residents of the Kodiak archipelago, the
Kodiak Alutiiq. Specifically, they are
from an area traditionally used by
citizens and shareholders of Koniag,
Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka
Woody Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.;
and Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Officials of the Alaska State Office of
History and Archaeology and the
Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological
Repository have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of at
least three individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Alaska State Office of History and
Archaeology and Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository 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 Native
American human remains and Koniag,
Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka
Woody Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.;
and Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Dr. Sven Haakanson, Jr.,
Executive Director, Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository, 215 Mission
Rd., Suite 101, Kodiak, AK 99615,
telephone (907) 486–7004, before
September 21, 2009. Repatriation of the
human remains to Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi,
Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody Island);
Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun’aq
Tribe of Kodiak may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository is
responsible for notifying Koniag, Inc.;
Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody
Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and
Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak that this notice
has been published.
Dated: July 31, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9–19982 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312–50–S
PO 00000
Frm 00051
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
42097
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Chemung Valley History Museum,
Elmira, NY
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. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains in the possession of the
Chemung Valley History Museum,
Elmira, NY. The human remains were
removed from an unknown location in
the Puget Sound area of Washington
State.
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. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by New York State
Museum professional staff. The
Chemung Valley History Museum
consulted with representatives of the
Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup
Reservation, Washington.
In 1888, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from an unknown site in the
Puget Sound area of Washington State,
by John James. Subsequently, the
human remains were given to James
Stowell, who gave them to Dr. Charles
Ott, Jr. Dr. Ott, Jr. presented the human
remains to the Chemung Valley History
Museum in 1972. The discovery and
transfer history of the skull was
described on a display card from an
exhibit of James Stowell’s Native
American artifacts from 1967. No
known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The human skull is well-preserved,
and belongs to a female between the
ages of 20 and 35. The individual has
supernumery tooth and cranial
deformation. The shape of the skull
indicates cultural modification in the
form of skull flattening. The practice of
flattening an infant’s forehead by using
a series of boards and string was a
common ancestral tradition among
Puget Sound tribes. The distinct shape
of this individual’s skull suggest s
cultural affiliation to the Puget Sound
area tribes because of their skullflattening tradition.
E:\FR\FM\20AUN1.SGM
20AUN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 160 (Thursday, August 20, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42096-42097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19982]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: State of Alaska, Alaska State
Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK and Alutiiq Museum and
Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 in the control of the State
of Alaska, Alaska Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK, and
in the possession of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository,
Kodiak, AK.
[[Page 42097]]
The human remains were removed from Chiniak, AK.
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. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made on behalf of
the Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology by Alutiiq Museum
and Archaeological Repository staff in consultation with
representatives of Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka
Woody Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Between 1989 and 1991, human remains representing a minimum of
three individuals were removed from the Rice Ridge site (49-KOD-00363)
near Chiniak, AK, during an excavation by Philomena Hausler Knecht, a
Harvard University graduate student. At the conclusion of the
excavation all of these human remains were taken to the Kodiak Area
Native Association's Alutiiq Culture Center for study and storage. In
April 1995, the entire site collection was transferred to the newly
founded Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository where they are now
stored in association with accession AM19. No known individuals were
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
The human remains from Rice Ridge were found spread in the site's
lower midden deposits, and not in association with identified burials.
With the exception of 13 teeth and a few small cranial fragments, the
remains were identified as human after the excavation and were found in
faunal samples over a period of years.
The Rice Ridge site is a large, prehistoric deposit that lies near
the coast of Chiniak Bay, on northern Kodiak Island in Alaska's Kodiak
archipelago. Carbon dates and temporally diagnostic artifacts
illustrate that the site contains a series of distinct occupations that
span the Ocean Bay tradition, with initial settlement at about 7100 BP
and site abandonment after 4400 BP. The human remains described above
were found in association with midden deposits at the site. Depth
measurements indicate that the human remains are primarily associated
with the deeper and thus older levels of the deposit and indicate an
early known expression of the Ocean Bay tradition. Recent archeological
research in the Kodiak archipelago and Chiniak Bay region specifically
illustrates that the Ocean Bay tradition is ancestral to the sequent
Kachemak tradition, which is in turn ancestral to the Koniag tradition
observed at historic contact. Many Kodiak archeologists believe that
modern Alutiiqs can trace their ancestors back to the Ocean Bay
tradition. As such, human remains from the Rice Ridge site are presumed
to be Native American and most closely affiliated with the contemporary
Native residents of the Kodiak archipelago, the Kodiak Alutiiq.
Specifically, they are from an area traditionally used by citizens and
shareholders of Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody
Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Officials of the Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology and
the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of at least three individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the Alaska State Office of History and
Archaeology and Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository 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 Native American human remains and Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi,
Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and
Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Dr. Sven
Haakanson, Jr., Executive Director, Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological
Repository, 215 Mission Rd., Suite 101, Kodiak, AK 99615, telephone
(907) 486-7004, before September 21, 2009. Repatriation of the human
remains to Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody
Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository is responsible for
notifying Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody
Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak that this
notice has been published.
Dated: July 31, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-19982 Filed 8-19-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312-50-S
