Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC, 8217-8218 [2016-03408]
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History and Description of the Cultural
Item
In 2014, one cultural item was
donated to the Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum by the children of J.
Donald Detenber, from Westborough,
MA. Detenber was a collector and dealer
in Native American objects, and it is
unclear when and where he acquired
the object. Detenber was most active in
the 1980s and 1990s and purchased
from various dealers and auction houses
across the country. The sacred object/
object of cultural patrimony is a woven
cotton sash.
This type of textile was used
primarily by the bride in the traditional
Hopi wedding ceremony and can be
seen in various photographs from the
early 20th century. As part of the
ceremony, cotton was collected from
various members of the community and
woven by a specific group of relatives.
Another known use of these sashes is
the Powamu Festival, centered on the
seasonal planting of beans. One aspect
of the ceremonies is the imitation of
Katchinas (ancestral spirits). In some
cases, men would don the sash to dress
as female Katchina spirits or women in
general. One such female Katchina is
Angwusnasomtaka (Crow Mother), who
is often represented with this type of
sash. Based on the above definitions and
a general knowledge of these objects
being used in various types of
ceremonies, there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the cultural
item and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.
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Officials of the Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum have determined
that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C),
the one cultural item described above is
a specific ceremonial objects needed by
traditional Native American religious
leaders for the practice of traditional
Native American religions by their
present-day adherents.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D),
the one 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.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the sacred object and object of
cultural patrimony and the Hopi Tribe
of Arizona.
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Dated: February 3, 2016.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of Defense, Department of
the Navy, Washington, DC
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of
Defense, Department of the Navy (DoN)
has completed an inventory of human
remains, in consultation with the Aleut
Corporation, representatives of the
Aleut Repatriation Committee, and the
Cultural Heritage Director of the
Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association,
Inc., as agents for the Native Village of
Atka, AK, and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and members of the
Native Village of Atka. Lineal
descendants or representatives of any
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to request transfer of control
of these human remains should submit
a written request to the DoN. If no
additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains
to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes,
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated
in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
SUMMARY:
Determinations Made by the Mount
Holyoke College Art Museum
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Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to claim this cultural item
should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to
Aaron F. Miller, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 50
College Street, South Hadley, MA
01075, telephone (413) 538–3394, email
afmiller@mtholyoke.edu, by March 21,
2016. After that date, if no additional
claimants have come forward, transfer
of control of the sacred object and object
of cultural patrimony to the Hopi Tribe
of Arizona may proceed.
The Mount Holyoke College Art
Museum is responsible for notifying the
Hopi Tribe of Arizona that this notice
has been published.
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identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these
human remains should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to the DoN at the address in
this notice by March 21, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Susan S. Hughes,
Archaeologist, Department of the Navy,
NAVFAC NW, 1101 Tautog Circle,
Silverdale, WA 98315, telephone (360)
396–0083, email susan.s.hughes@
navy.mil.
Notice is
hereby 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 under the control of
the DoN. The human remains were
removed from the island of Attu, AK, in
the Aleutian Islands.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the DoN
professional staff in consultation with
the Aleut Corporation, the Aleut
Repatriation Committee, and the
Cultural Heritage Director of the
Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association,
Inc., as agents for the Native Village of
Atka, AK.
History and Description of the Remains
In 1943, human remains representing,
at minimum, one individual were
removed from Attu Island, at the
western end of the Aleutian Islands, AK.
The human remains, a skull and
associated mandible, came into the
possession of William J. Madden II,
Senior Medical Officer at the U.S. Naval
Aerological Station, Attu, where they
were used as an aid in the study of
human skull anatomy. In a letter dated
May 14, 1948, Dr. Madden states that
the human remains were recovered by a
civilian construction company while
engaged in building a Coast Guard
Station on Attu. A historic account of
the Coast Guard construction of the
Western Aleutian island chain (The
Coast Guard at War: IV Loran Volume I
Section III, Chapter 3) suggests that the
skull may have come from an
archeological site at Baxter Bay.
After the Battle of Attu in the spring
of 1943, a U.S.C.G. LORAN Station was
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built on Attu. A construction party
arrived in November of 1943, and began
construction of the first LORAN station
at Attu on Theodore Point, south of
Massacre Bay. A temporary base camp
was established at Baxter Cove, 2.5
miles east of the station, the only place
where equipment could be offloaded
near the site. Tents, a mess hut, and a
Loran transmitting equipment storage
hut were erected, and a large CAT began
construction of the switchback road to
the ridge top site. The road became
known as Hooligan Highway and was
one of the engineering wonders of Attu.
An account by Lt. Cmdr. Yates indicates
that in the first five hundred feet of road
construction at Baxter Cove, the CAT
cut through an Aleutian cemetery
located under a dummy gun
emplacement that the Japanese had
abandoned a few months earlier. The
construction work turned up ‘‘human
skulls and bones of prehistoric animals
which had been in turn, buried deep
below ivory trinkets and tons of bird
and fish bones.’’ In 1949, the LORAN
Station was moved to Murder Point,
closer to Massacre Bay.
The skull was transferred into the
custody of the Yale University Peabody
Museum in 1955 (Catalog No.
ANTPA.000227), where it remained
until 2014, when it was returned to the
Department of the Navy, NAVFAC
Northwest, to facilitate its repatriation.
The skull is represented by a nearly
complete cranium and mandible
belonging to a young female, aged 15 to
19 years. The dental wear, eruption and
mandibular morphology are consistent
with the mandible belonging with the
cranium. There is damage to the
ethmoid and the nasal conchae, with the
inferior nasal conchae completely
absent. The vomer is present but
disarticulated. The sphenoid and right
temporal show some postmortem
damage. The zygomatic process of the
right temporal is missing, as is the right
mastoid; the left mastoid process is
damaged but mostly present. The
mandible is missing the condyles, the
right mandibular angle, and its coronoid
process. Most of the molars are present,
but the incisors and canines were lost
post-mortem.
The individual’s age is based upon
the unerupted third molars, unfused
basal synchondrosis, and incomplete
closure of the incisive suture of the
palate. There is no clear evidence of
chronic or acute health issues. The skull
does reveal a small healed, depressed
fracture located on the right parietal.
The color and condition of the human
remains suggests superficial interment
with subsequent or partial exposure.
Metric and nonmetric data support
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ethnic identification as Native
American/Indigenous Alaska with
closest affinity to females sampled from
Wales, AK (Southeastern mainland;
Aronsen and Kirkham 2014). No known
individuals are identified. No funerary
objects are associated with the human
remains.
Radiocarbon dates from archeological
sites on Attu Island reveal that the
island was inhabited between 100 and
2000 years ago (Lefevre et al. 2001). The
Department of the Navy has determined
that the human remains are affiliated
with the Unangax/Aleut people because
they have a long history of living on the
Aleutian Islands, including the island of
Attu. When the 20th century Native
Village of Attu at Chichagof Harbor was
occupied by the Japanese in 1942, the
Native inhabitants were removed to
Japan. The village was not re-occupied
after the war; its remaining inhabitants
settling on Atka Island, the closest
settlement to Attu Island (Aleut
Repatriation Commission and Cultural
Heritage Director, 2002).
Determinations Made by the
Department of the Navy
Officials of the Department of the
Navy have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of one
individual of Native American ancestry.
• 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 Members of the Village of
Atka, AK.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to request transfer of control
of these human remains should submit
a written request with information in
support of the request to Dr. Susan S.
Hughes, Department of the Navy
NAVFAC NW, 1101 Tautog Circle,
Silverdale, WA 98315, telephone (360)
396–0083, email susan.s.hughes@
navy.mil, by March 21, 2016. After that
date, if no additional requestors have
come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains to the Native Village of
Atka, AK, may proceed.
The Department of the Navy is
responsible for notifying the Native
Village of Atka, AK, through its agents,
that this notice has been published.
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Dated: January 20, 2016.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Thomas Burke Memorial Washington
State Museum, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Thomas Burke Memorial
Washington State Museum (Burke
Museum) has completed an inventory of
human remains, in consultation with
the appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations, and has
determined that there is no cultural
affiliation between the human remains
and any present-day Indian tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations.
Representatives of any Indian tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these
human remains should submit a written
request to the Burke Museum. If no
additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains
to the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations stated in this notice may
proceed.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian
tribe or Native Hawaiian organization
not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these
human remains should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to the Burke Museum at the
address in this notice by March 21,
2016.
SUMMARY:
Peter Lape, Burke Museum,
University of Washington, Box 353010,
Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206)
685–3849x2, plape@uw.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of
the Burke Museum, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA. The human
remains were possibly removed from
the San Juan Islands, San Juan Island
County, WA.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense,
Department of the Navy, Washington, DC
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy (DoN)
has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the
Aleut Corporation, representatives of the Aleut Repatriation Committee,
and the Cultural Heritage Director of the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands
Association, Inc., as agents for the Native Village of Atka, AK, and
has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and members of the Native Village of Atka. Lineal descendants
or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization
not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control
of these human remains should submit a written request to the DoN. If
no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human
remains to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian
organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a
written request with information in support of the request to the DoN
at the address in this notice by March 21, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Susan S. Hughes, Archaeologist, Department of the Navy,
NAVFAC NW, 1101 Tautog Circle, Silverdale, WA 98315, telephone (360)
396-0083, email susan.s.hughes@navy.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby 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 under
the control of the DoN. The human remains were removed from the island
of Attu, AK, in the Aleutian Islands.
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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the DoN
professional staff in consultation with the Aleut Corporation, the
Aleut Repatriation Committee, and the Cultural Heritage Director of the
Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association, Inc., as agents for the Native
Village of Atka, AK.
History and Description of the Remains
In 1943, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from Attu Island, at the western end of the Aleutian
Islands, AK. The human remains, a skull and associated mandible, came
into the possession of William J. Madden II, Senior Medical Officer at
the U.S. Naval Aerological Station, Attu, where they were used as an
aid in the study of human skull anatomy. In a letter dated May 14,
1948, Dr. Madden states that the human remains were recovered by a
civilian construction company while engaged in building a Coast Guard
Station on Attu. A historic account of the Coast Guard construction of
the Western Aleutian island chain (The Coast Guard at War: IV Loran
Volume I Section III, Chapter 3) suggests that the skull may have come
from an archeological site at Baxter Bay.
After the Battle of Attu in the spring of 1943, a U.S.C.G. LORAN
Station was
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built on Attu. A construction party arrived in November of 1943, and
began construction of the first LORAN station at Attu on Theodore
Point, south of Massacre Bay. A temporary base camp was established at
Baxter Cove, 2.5 miles east of the station, the only place where
equipment could be offloaded near the site. Tents, a mess hut, and a
Loran transmitting equipment storage hut were erected, and a large CAT
began construction of the switchback road to the ridge top site. The
road became known as Hooligan Highway and was one of the engineering
wonders of Attu. An account by Lt. Cmdr. Yates indicates that in the
first five hundred feet of road construction at Baxter Cove, the CAT
cut through an Aleutian cemetery located under a dummy gun emplacement
that the Japanese had abandoned a few months earlier. The construction
work turned up ``human skulls and bones of prehistoric animals which
had been in turn, buried deep below ivory trinkets and tons of bird and
fish bones.'' In 1949, the LORAN Station was moved to Murder Point,
closer to Massacre Bay.
The skull was transferred into the custody of the Yale University
Peabody Museum in 1955 (Catalog No. ANTPA.000227), where it remained
until 2014, when it was returned to the Department of the Navy, NAVFAC
Northwest, to facilitate its repatriation.
The skull is represented by a nearly complete cranium and mandible
belonging to a young female, aged 15 to 19 years. The dental wear,
eruption and mandibular morphology are consistent with the mandible
belonging with the cranium. There is damage to the ethmoid and the
nasal conchae, with the inferior nasal conchae completely absent. The
vomer is present but disarticulated. The sphenoid and right temporal
show some postmortem damage. The zygomatic process of the right
temporal is missing, as is the right mastoid; the left mastoid process
is damaged but mostly present. The mandible is missing the condyles,
the right mandibular angle, and its coronoid process. Most of the
molars are present, but the incisors and canines were lost post-mortem.
The individual's age is based upon the unerupted third molars,
unfused basal synchondrosis, and incomplete closure of the incisive
suture of the palate. There is no clear evidence of chronic or acute
health issues. The skull does reveal a small healed, depressed fracture
located on the right parietal. The color and condition of the human
remains suggests superficial interment with subsequent or partial
exposure. Metric and nonmetric data support ethnic identification as
Native American/Indigenous Alaska with closest affinity to females
sampled from Wales, AK (Southeastern mainland; Aronsen and Kirkham
2014). No known individuals are identified. No funerary objects are
associated with the human remains.
Radiocarbon dates from archeological sites on Attu Island reveal
that the island was inhabited between 100 and 2000 years ago (Lefevre
et al. 2001). The Department of the Navy has determined that the human
remains are affiliated with the Unangax/Aleut people because they have
a long history of living on the Aleutian Islands, including the island
of Attu. When the 20th century Native Village of Attu at Chichagof
Harbor was occupied by the Japanese in 1942, the Native inhabitants
were removed to Japan. The village was not re-occupied after the war;
its remaining inhabitants settling on Atka Island, the closest
settlement to Attu Island (Aleut Repatriation Commission and Cultural
Heritage Director, 2002).
Determinations Made by the Department of the Navy
Officials of the Department of the Navy have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of
Native American ancestry.
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 Members of the Village of Atka, AK.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a
written request with information in support of the request to Dr. Susan
S. Hughes, Department of the Navy NAVFAC NW, 1101 Tautog Circle,
Silverdale, WA 98315, telephone (360) 396-0083, email
susan.s.hughes@navy.mil, by March 21, 2016. After that date, if no
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains to the Native Village of Atka, AK, may proceed.
The Department of the Navy is responsible for notifying the Native
Village of Atka, AK, through its agents, that this notice has been
published.
Dated: January 20, 2016.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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