Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State Parks and Trails, Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 52529-52530 [2018-22599]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026500;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Arizona State Parks and Trails,
Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Arizona State Parks and
Trails and the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, in consultation
with the appropriate Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations, have
determined that the cultural item listed
in this notice meets the definition of
unassociated funerary object. 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 to the
Arizona State Museum. If no additional
claimants come forward, transfer of
control of the cultural item 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 this
cultural item should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to the Arizona State
Museum at the address in this notice by
November 16, 2018.
ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA
Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona
State Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626–
2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of
Arizona State Museum, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, that meets the
definition of an unassociated funerary
object 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 Native
American cultural item. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
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History and Description of the Cultural
Items
On an unknown date during or prior
to 1960, one cultural item was removed
by an unknown individual from an
unrecorded site, designated AZ CC:2:—
Safford Vicinity, located in Graham
County, AZ. This object was described
as having been removed from an
‘‘Indian burial ground south of Safford,
Arizona.’’ The item was acquired by the
Yuma Territorial Prison on an unknown
date. In 1960, collections of the Yuma
Territorial Prison were transferred to
Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT).
In December 2000, ASPT transferred the
collection to the Arizona State Museum
(ASM). The one unassociated funerary
object is a ceramic jar. The human
remains associated with this object are
either missing or were not collected.
Based on ceramic analysis, this object
likely dates to A.D. 1050–1450, and is
associated with the Mogollon culture.
Archeologists describe the earliest
settlements in southern Arizona as
belonging to the Late Archaic/Early
Agricultural horizon. Recent
archeological investigations have added
support to the hypothesis that the
Hohokam cultural tradition arose from
the earlier horizon, based on
continuities in settlement pattern,
architectural technologies, irrigation
technologies, subsistence patterns, and
material culture. Archeologists have had
difficulty dating the beginning of the
Hohokam period because the
appearance of its distinctive cultural
traits, including ceramic technologies
and mortuary patterns, was a gradual
process spanning several hundred years.
This observation adds further support to
the hypothesis that the Hohokam
tradition evolved in place from earlier
Late Archaic traditions. Linguistic
evidence furthermore suggests that the
Hohokam tradition was multiethnic in
nature. Cultural continuity between
these prehistoric occupants of Southern
Arizona and present-day O’odham
peoples is supported by continuities in
settlement pattern, architectural
technologies, basketry, textiles, ceramic
technology, and ritual practices.
Archeologists have also recognized
the presence of people associated with
the Mogollon tradition in southeastern
Arizona. It is thought that their presence
represents a migration of people from
the mountainous region to the north,
where the Mogollon archeological
culture was originally defined. Material
culture characteristics of Mogollon
traditions include a temporal
progression from earlier pit houses to
later masonry pueblos, villages
organized in room blocks of contiguous
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dwellings associated with plazas,
rectangular kivas, polished and paintdecorated ceramics, painted and
unpainted corrugated ceramics, red and
brown ceramics, inhumation burials,
cradleboard cranial deformation,
grooved stone axes, and bone artifacts.
In southeastern Arizona, there is
evidence for both Hohokam and
Mogollon traditions, but it is unclear
whether this represents separate
occupations of different people who
interacted and exchanged material
culture, or cohabitation and a blending
of identities.
Oral traditions that are documented
for the Ak-Chin Indian Community
(previously listed as 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; and
the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona
support cultural affiliation with Late
Archaic/Early Agricultural period and
Hohokam sites in southern Arizona.
Oral traditions that are documented
for the Hopi Tribe also support cultural
affiliation with Late Archaic/Early
Agricultural period and Hohokam sites
in the region. Several Hopi clans and
religious societies are derived from
ancestors who migrated from the south,
and likely identified with the Hohokam
tradition. Oral traditions and
archeological evidence also support
affiliation of Hopi clans with the
Mogollon archeological sites.
Oral traditions of medicine societies
and kiva groups of the Zuni Tribe
recount migration from distant portions
of the Southwest to present day Zuni,
and support affiliation with Mogollon,
Hohokam, and Late Archaic traditions.
Historical linguistic analysis also
suggests interaction between ancestral
Zuni and Uto-Aztecan speakers during
the late Hohokam period.
Determinations Made by the Arizona
State Museum (ASM) and Arizona State
Parks and Trails (ASPT)
Officials of the ASM and ASPT have
determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
the one cultural item described above is
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 is
believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a
specific burial site of a Native American
individual.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
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between the unassociated funerary
object and the Ak-Chin Indian
Community (previously listed as 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 the Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico,
hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes.’’
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
John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator,
P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626–
2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu,
by November 16, 2018. After that date,
if no additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the
unassociated funerary object to The
Tribes may proceed.
The Arizona State Museum is
responsible for notifying The Tribes that
this notice has been published.
Dated: September 14, 2018.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of California, Davis, Davis,
CA, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,
Mid-Pacific Region, Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The University of California,
Davis (UC Davis) and U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation (Reclamation), Mid-Pacific
Region, Sacramento, CA, has completed
an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects in
consultation with the appropriate
Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations, and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary
objects and present-day Indian tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
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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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written
request to UC Davis and Reclamation. If
no additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains
and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request
with information in support of the
request to UC Davis and Reclamation at
the addresses in this notice by
November 16, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA
Project Manager, University of
California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One
Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
telephone (530) 752–8501, email
mnoble@ucdavis.edu, or Melanie Ryan,
NAGPRA Specialist/Physical
Anthropologist, Bureau of Reclamation,
Mid-Pacific Regional Office, MP–153,
2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA
95825, telephone (916) 978–5526, email
emryan@usbr.gov.
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 and associated
funerary objects under the control of the
UC Davis, Davis, CA and Reclamation,
Sacramento, CA. The human remains
and associated funerary objects were
removed from El Dorado and Placer
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
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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by UC Davis and
Reclamation professional staff in
consultation with the Buena Vista
Rancheria of Me-wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Jackson Rancheria Band of
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Miwuk Indians; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
and the United Auburn Indian
Community of the Auburn Rancheria of
California (hereafter ‘‘The Consulted
Tribes’’). Berry Creek Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Enterprise
Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Greenville Rancheria;
Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
of California; Susanville Indian
Rancheria; and the Wilton Rancheria
were invited to consult and either
deferred or did not respond (hereafter
‘‘The Invited Tribes’’).
History and Description of the Remains
Between 1966 and 1967, human
remains representing, at minimum, four
individuals were removed from CA–
ELD–90, near the City of Cool, El
Dorado County, CA. The site was
identified as a prehistoric midden. UC
Davis archeologists Jeffrey Childress and
Eric Ritter excavated the site under the
direction of Dr. Martin Baumhoff and
D.L. True as a part of the Auburn Dam
Project. The excavation was conducted
by the National Park Service on behalf
of Reclamation in anticipation of the
construction of the Auburn Dam. In
1971 and 1972, Reclamation acquired
the land on which the site is situated.
Control of the site was disputed for a
number of years. In 2016, UC Davis and
Reclamation agreed to jointly comply
with NAGPRA. Burial 1 is the nearly
complete remains of an adult female
inhumation. Burials 2, 3, and 4 were
disarticulated and disassociated. Burial
2 is possibly the remains of a male.
Burial 3 is the incomplete remains of a
possible adult cremation. Burial 4 is the
remains of a child inhumation. The
human remains have been determined
to be Native American based on the
archaeological context of the site and
physiological characteristics of the
dentition. The 373 associated funerary
objects include: 3 Lots of ash, 34 lots of
non-human bones, 3 bone awls, 1
broken cobble, 10 lots of charcoal, 38
cores, 50 lots of debitage, 3 drills, 15
flake knives, 1 hammerstone, 1 piece of
historic glass, 1 mano, 1 lot of
miscellaneous organic material, 1
miscellaneous steatite artifact, 7
miscellaneous worked stones, 4
miscellaneous mineral fragments, 6 lots
of ochre, 1 steatite ornament, 1 pebble,
1 possible retouched flake, 84 lots of
possibly unmodified stones, 37 quartz
crystals, 1 scraper, 3 shells, 1 shell bead,
6 stones, 1 stone bead, 56 projectile
points, and 2 pieces of wood.
Between 1966 and 1967, human
remains representing, at minimum, four
individuals were removed from CA–
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026500; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State
Parks and Trails, Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State Museum, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Parks and Trails and the Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona, in consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have determined that
the cultural item listed in this notice meets the definition of
unassociated funerary object. 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 to the Arizona State Museum. If no additional claimants come
forward, transfer of control of the cultural item 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 this cultural item should submit a
written request with information in support of the request to the
Arizona State Museum at the address in this notice by November 16,
2018.
ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026,
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
telephone (520) 626-2950, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the
control of Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 Native
American cultural item. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
On an unknown date during or prior to 1960, one cultural item was
removed by an unknown individual from an unrecorded site, designated AZ
CC:2:--Safford Vicinity, located in Graham County, AZ. This object was
described as having been removed from an ``Indian burial ground south
of Safford, Arizona.'' The item was acquired by the Yuma Territorial
Prison on an unknown date. In 1960, collections of the Yuma Territorial
Prison were transferred to Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT). In
December 2000, ASPT transferred the collection to the Arizona State
Museum (ASM). The one unassociated funerary object is a ceramic jar.
The human remains associated with this object are either missing or
were not collected. Based on ceramic analysis, this object likely dates
to A.D. 1050-1450, and is associated with the Mogollon culture.
Archeologists describe the earliest settlements in southern Arizona
as belonging to the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural horizon. Recent
archeological investigations have added support to the hypothesis that
the Hohokam cultural tradition arose from the earlier horizon, based on
continuities in settlement pattern, architectural technologies,
irrigation technologies, subsistence patterns, and material culture.
Archeologists have had difficulty dating the beginning of the Hohokam
period because the appearance of its distinctive cultural traits,
including ceramic technologies and mortuary patterns, was a gradual
process spanning several hundred years. This observation adds further
support to the hypothesis that the Hohokam tradition evolved in place
from earlier Late Archaic traditions. Linguistic evidence furthermore
suggests that the Hohokam tradition was multiethnic in nature. Cultural
continuity between these prehistoric occupants of Southern Arizona and
present-day O'odham peoples is supported by continuities in settlement
pattern, architectural technologies, basketry, textiles, ceramic
technology, and ritual practices.
Archeologists have also recognized the presence of people
associated with the Mogollon tradition in southeastern Arizona. It is
thought that their presence represents a migration of people from the
mountainous region to the north, where the Mogollon archeological
culture was originally defined. Material culture characteristics of
Mogollon traditions include a temporal progression from earlier pit
houses to later masonry pueblos, villages organized in room blocks of
contiguous dwellings associated with plazas, rectangular kivas,
polished and paint-decorated ceramics, painted and unpainted corrugated
ceramics, red and brown ceramics, inhumation burials, cradleboard
cranial deformation, grooved stone axes, and bone artifacts. In
southeastern Arizona, there is evidence for both Hohokam and Mogollon
traditions, but it is unclear whether this represents separate
occupations of different people who interacted and exchanged material
culture, or cohabitation and a blending of identities.
Oral traditions that are documented for the Ak-Chin Indian
Community (previously listed as 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;
and the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona support cultural affiliation
with Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period and Hohokam sites in
southern Arizona.
Oral traditions that are documented for the Hopi Tribe also support
cultural affiliation with Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period and
Hohokam sites in the region. Several Hopi clans and religious societies
are derived from ancestors who migrated from the south, and likely
identified with the Hohokam tradition. Oral traditions and
archeological evidence also support affiliation of Hopi clans with the
Mogollon archeological sites.
Oral traditions of medicine societies and kiva groups of the Zuni
Tribe recount migration from distant portions of the Southwest to
present day Zuni, and support affiliation with Mogollon, Hohokam, and
Late Archaic traditions. Historical linguistic analysis also suggests
interaction between ancestral Zuni and Uto-Aztecan speakers during the
late Hohokam period.
Determinations Made by the Arizona State Museum (ASM) and Arizona State
Parks and Trails (ASPT)
Officials of the ASM and ASPT have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the one cultural item
described above is 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 is believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native
American individual.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
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between the unassociated funerary object and the Ak-Chin Indian
Community (previously listed as 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 the Zuni
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, hereafter referred to as
``The Tribes.''
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 John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box
210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
telephone (520) 626-2950, email [email protected], by November
16, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary object to The
Tribes may proceed.
The Arizona State Museum is responsible for notifying The Tribes
that this notice has been published.
Dated: September 14, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2018-22599 Filed 10-16-18; 8:45 am]
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