Notice of Inventory Completion: Southwest Museum of the American Indian at the Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, 65146-65147 [E9-29297]
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the death rite or ceremony. Lastly,
officials of the University of Colorado
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
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 objects should
contact Steve Lekson, Curator of
Anthropology, University of Colorado
Museum, Henderson Building, Campus
Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309-0218,
telephone (303) 492-6671, before
January 8, 2010. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated 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; Salt River
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of
the Salt River Reservation, Arizona;
Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona;
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The University of Colorado 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: October 29, 2009.
Richard C. Waldbauer,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Southwest Museum of the American
Indian at the Autry National Center of
the American West, Los Angeles, CA
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 Southwest
Museum of the American Indian at the
Autry National Center of the American
West, Los Angeles, CA. The human
remains were removed from Clark
County, NV.
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 the Southwest
Museum of the American Indian at the
Autry National Center of the American
West professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the PaiuteShoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada,
representing the Great Basin Inter-Tribal
NAGPRA Coalition, a non-Federally
recognized Indian coalition, consisting
of the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, a
non-Federally recognized Indian group,
and the following Federally-recognized
Indian tribes: Battle Mountain Shoshone
Tribe (Constituent band of the Te-Moak
Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of
Nevada); Bridgeport Paiute Indian
Colony of California; Duckwater
Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater
Reservation, Nevada; Ely Shoshone
Tribe of Nevada; Las Vegas Tribe of
Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian
Colony, Nevada; Lovelock Paiute Tribe
of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada;
Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa
River Indian Reservation, Nevada;
Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop
Community of the Bishop Colony,
California; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the
Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada;
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada;
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck
Valley Reservation, Nevada; South Fork
Band (Constituent band of the Te-Moak
Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of
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Nevada); Susanville Indian Rancheria,
California; Te-Moak Tribe of Western
Shoshone Indians of Nevada; Washoe
Tribe of Nevada and California; and
Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba
Reservation, Nevada.
At an unknown time, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from a cave
near the Moapa reservation, in Clark
County, NV. On May 23, 1939, Charles
E. Cornelius donated the human
remains to the Southwest Museum. No
known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The burial location in a cave suggests
the human remains are Native
American. Museum officials date the
human remains from at least the 19th
century. Literature infers that since the
19th century, Southern Paiute burial
practices changed from cremation to
burials in caves or crevasses as a result
of colonization. Both current literature
and consultation with the Great Basin
Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition indicate
that Paiutes have used caves for burials.
Museum officials reasonably believe
that the proximity of the burial near the
Moapa reservation indicates the human
remains are culturally affiliated with the
Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa
River Indian Reservation, Nevada. This
band has continually inhabited the
Moapa Valley since at least the 19th
century. Pursuant to Resolution No. 7–
001, the Moapa Band of Paiutes of the
Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Nevada is a member of the Great Basin
Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition and
agrees to have the Paiute-Shoshone
Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and
Colony, Nevada represent their
NAGPRA claims and repatriate these
human remains on their behalf.
Officials of the Southwest Museum of
the American Indian at the Autry
National Center of the American West
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
Southwest Museum of the American
Indian at the Autry National Center of
the American West 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 the
Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the
Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Nevada.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
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should contact LaLena Lewark, Senior
NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwest
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Museum of the American Indian, Autry
National Center of the American West,
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los
Angeles, CA 90027, telephone (323)
667–2000, ext. 220, or Steven M. Karr,
Ph.D., Ahmanson Curator of History and
Culture and Interim Executive Director
for the Southwest Museum of the
American Indian, Autry National Center
of the American West, 234 Museum
Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065,
telephone (323) 221–2164 ext., ext. 234,
before January 8, 2010. Repatriation of
the human remains to the PaiuteShoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada,
representing the Moapa Band of Paiutes
of the Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Nevada, and the Great Basin Inter-Tribal
NAGPRA Coalition, a non-Federally
recognized Indian coalition, may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Southwest Museum of the
American Indian at the Autry National
Center is responsible for notifying the
Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa
River Indian Reservation, Nevada;
Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada; and
the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA
Coalition, a non-Federally recognized
Indian coalition, that this notice has
been published.
Dated: October 15, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion: San
Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA
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 possession and control of the San
Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA.
The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from
Kern, Sacramento, and Tulare Counties,
CA.
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
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agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the San Diego
Museum of Man professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
In 1958, human remains representing
a minimum of four individuals were
removed from a burial site on a delta
area called the ‘‘Meadows’’ near the
mouth of the Snodgrass Slough on an
island in the Sacramento River in the
vicinity of Walnut Grove, Sacramento
County, CA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
collected by Mr. and Mrs. Ken and
Shirley Westbrook, and donated to the
San Diego Museum of Man on July 10,
1961. No known individuals were
identified. The 13 associated funerary
objects are 1 pestle, 1 bone awl, 3 stone
projectile point fragments, and 8 fired
clay fragments.
The remains of two of the individuals
consist of partial skulls with associated
mandibles. Originally, the other two
individuals were determined to be two
bone awls, but were subsequently
identified as human remains. As noted
by the donors, the site had been
disturbed and the remains of a great
number of individuals seemed to be
represented. According to the Museum
of Man records, the human remains and
associated funerary objects are believed
to date to prehistoric or pre-contact
time. The Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, Tachi
Yokut Tribe, has provided the museum
with information consisting of oral
stories, territory and language family
maps, and written ethnographical
information about the Yokuts and their
inter-relationships with surrounding
communities, which also covers the
territory where the human remains and
associated funerary objects were
discovered, and provides a
determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human
remains and associated funerary objects.
On an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of seven
individuals were removed from a burial
mound ‘‘at the Indian village site’’ near
the east shore of Tulare Lake at the
junction of the Elk Bayou and Tule
Rivers, a quarter mile east of the Kings
County border, five miles from the town
of Corcoran, in Tulare County, CA. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were collected by Mr. David
Folsom, and donated to the museum on
November 13, 1954. No known
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individuals were identified. The 59
associated funerary objects are 2 strands
of glass trade beads, 1 strand of shell
disk beads, 1 strand of steatite disk
beads, 2 strands of olivella shell beads,
4 tubular shell beads, 1 shell tube, 1
steatite ceremonial stone, 1 abalone
shell dish, 1 pismo clam shell bead, 2
abalone shell disk beads, 3 abalone shell
ornaments, 3 abalone shell pendants, 1
bird claw, 1 clay bead, 1 bird bone ear
ornament, 1 plummet stone, 3 stone
projectile points, 1 obsidian drill, 2
stone blades, 2 slate blades, 23
fragments of a steatite bowl (or bowls),
and 2 miscellaneous steatite objects.
There are eight tubular shell beads
currently missing in the collection.
Museum records indicate that the
burial mound consisted of complete
skeletons, but only the skulls and
funerary objects associated with the
burials were collected by the donor.
According to the donor, ‘‘the burial
mound is called the ‘‘plague pit’’ by the
local inhabitants due to a story that in
historic times, there was a plague among
the Native American people of the area
which killed large numbers of them in
a short period of time. Their bodies
were hurriedly thrown into a large
common grave which is supposed to be
the mound.’’ The donor also states that
‘‘the beads were found in the area below
the skulls, indicating that they were
necklaces, and other artifacts were
placed on the bodies or near them.’’
Records indicate that the glass trade
beads found associated with the burials
indicates that they are historic burials
and that the location of the site
indicates that these are Yokut Indian
burials. The Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, Tachi Yokut Tribe, has
provided the museum with information
consisting of oral stories, territory and
language family maps, and written
ethnographical information about the
Yokuts and their inter-relationships
with surrounding communities, which
also covers the territory where the
human remains and associated funerary
objects were discovered, and supports a
determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human
remains and associated funerary objects.
In 1956, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from a burial located two miles
north of the town of Pond on Central
Valley Highway, in Kern County, CA. In
1972, the human remains were gifted as
part of a collection to the San Diego
Museum of Man by Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of
the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Southwest Museum of the American
Indian at the Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles,
CA
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 in the control of the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian at the Autry National Center of
the American West, Los Angeles, CA. The human remains were removed from
Clark County, NV.
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 the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian at the Autry National Center of
the American West professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation
and Colony, Nevada, representing the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA
Coalition, a non-Federally recognized Indian coalition, consisting of
the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, a non-Federally recognized Indian
group, and the following Federally-recognized Indian tribes: Battle
Mountain Shoshone Tribe (Constituent band of the Te-Moak Tribe of
Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada); Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony of
California; Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation,
Nevada; Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada; Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians
of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the
Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada; Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa
River Indian Reservation, Nevada; Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop
Community of the Bishop Colony, California; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of
the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Reno-Sparks Indian Colony,
Nevada; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada;
South Fork Band (Constituent band of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western
Shoshone Indians of Nevada); Susanville Indian Rancheria, California;
Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada; Washoe Tribe of
Nevada and California; and Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba
Reservation, Nevada.
At an unknown time, human remains representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from a cave near the Moapa reservation, in
Clark County, NV. On May 23, 1939, Charles E. Cornelius donated the
human remains to the Southwest Museum. No known individual was
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
The burial location in a cave suggests the human remains are Native
American. Museum officials date the human remains from at least the
19th century. Literature infers that since the 19th century, Southern
Paiute burial practices changed from cremation to burials in caves or
crevasses as a result of colonization. Both current literature and
consultation with the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition
indicate that Paiutes have used caves for burials. Museum officials
reasonably believe that the proximity of the burial near the Moapa
reservation indicates the human remains are culturally affiliated with
the Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Nevada. This band has continually inhabited the Moapa Valley since at
least the 19th century. Pursuant to Resolution No. 7-001, the Moapa
Band of Paiutes of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada is a
member of the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition and agrees to
have the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony,
Nevada represent their NAGPRA claims and repatriate these human remains
on their behalf.
Officials of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian at the
Autry National Center of the American West 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 Southwest Museum of the American Indian at
the Autry National Center of the American West 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 the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the
Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact
LaLe[ntilde]a Lewark, Senior NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwest
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Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center of the American
West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027, telephone (323)
667-2000, ext. 220, or Steven M. Karr, Ph.D., Ahmanson Curator of
History and Culture and Interim Executive Director for the Southwest
Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center of the American
West, 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065, telephone (323) 221-2164
ext., ext. 234, before January 8, 2010. Repatriation of the human
remains to the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and
Colony, Nevada, representing the Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa
River Indian Reservation, Nevada, and the Great Basin Inter-Tribal
NAGPRA Coalition, a non-Federally recognized Indian coalition, may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian at the Autry National
Center is responsible for notifying the Moapa Band of Paiutes of the
Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the
Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; and the Great Basin Inter-Tribal
NAGPRA Coalition, a non-Federally recognized Indian coalition, that
this notice has been published.
Dated: October 15, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-29297 Filed 12-8-09; 8:45 am]
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