Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, AZ, and American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY, 44280 [2010-18434]
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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 144 / Wednesday, July 28, 2010 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Coconino National
Forest, Flagstaff, AZ, and American
Museum of Natural History, New York
City, NY
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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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
Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino
National Forest, Flagstaff, AZ, and in
the possession of the American Museum
of Natural History, New York City, NY,
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 four cultural items are two
fragments of cotton cloth wrappings,
one fragment of yucca matting and one
cotton roll in two pieces (one of which
is an extra-weft textile with an
embroidered design in brown).
According to museum records, the four
items were removed by Earl Morris from
an infant burial in a cave, in Clear
Creek, AZ, in 1926. All items are
curated at the American Museum of
Natural History and have been in the
possession of the museum since their
excavation.
Archeologists who examined the cloth
date the pieces to the late Prehistoric
Period (between A.D. 1300 and A.D.
1400). Continuities of oral traditions,
ethnographic materials, technology and
architecture indicate that the prehistoric
peoples of the upper Verde River Valley
are ancestral to the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona.
Officials of the American Museum of
Natural History and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Coconino National Forest, have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(B), the four 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
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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 American Museum of
Natural History and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Coconino National Forest, 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
Hopi Tribe of Arizona.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Dr. Frank E.
Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Southwestern Region, USDA Forest
Service, 333 Broadway Blvd., SE,
Albuquerque, NM 87102, telephone
(505) 842–3238, before August 27, 2010.
Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Coconino National
Forest, is responsible for notifying the
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott
Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation,
Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: July 22, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, AZ,
and American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY
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
Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, AZ,
and in the possession of the American Museum of Natural History, New
York City, NY, 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 four cultural items are two fragments of cotton cloth
wrappings, one fragment of yucca matting and one cotton roll in two
pieces (one of which is an extra-weft textile with an embroidered
design in brown). According to museum records, the four items were
removed by Earl Morris from an infant burial in a cave, in Clear Creek,
AZ, in 1926. All items are curated at the American Museum of Natural
History and have been in the possession of the museum since their
excavation.
Archeologists who examined the cloth date the pieces to the late
Prehistoric Period (between A.D. 1300 and A.D. 1400). Continuities of
oral traditions, ethnographic materials, technology and architecture
indicate that the prehistoric peoples of the upper Verde River Valley
are ancestral to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.
Officials of the American Museum of Natural History and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino National Forest,
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the four
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 American
Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Coconino National Forest, 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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Dr. Frank E. Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwestern Region,
USDA Forest Service, 333 Broadway Blvd., SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102,
telephone (505) 842-3238, before August 27, 2010. Repatriation of the
unassociated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino
National Forest, is responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona;
and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: July 22, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2010-18434 Filed 7-27-10; 8:45 am]
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