Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 52538-52539 [2018-22600]
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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
Item
In 1928, one cultural item was
removed from Nogales in Santa Cruz
County, AZ. One empty olla, identified
as a Hohokam plain ware vessel, was
uncovered during an operation to lower
and pave a street. It was donated by Mr.
James W. Haddock of Nogales High
School in 1929.
Mr. Peter Steere, Tribal Historic
Preservation Officer for the Tohono
O’odham Nation, identified the olla as
a Hohokam plain ware vessel that dates
to A.D. 1000–1400. The Hohokam are
regarded as the ancestors of the Tohono
O’odham Nation, and the Nogales area
of Southern Arizona is within the
geographic area covered by the Tohono
O’odham Nation under NAGPRA
repatriation.
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Determinations Made by the Sternberg
Museum of Natural History
Officials of the Sternberg Museum of
Natural History 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
between the unassociated funerary
object and the Tohono O’odham Nation
of Arizona.
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
Dr. Laura E. Wilson, Sternberg Museum
of Natural History, 3000 Sternberg
Drive, Hays, KS 67601, telephone (785)
639–6192, email lewilson6@fhsu.edu, by
November 16, 2018. After that date, if
no additional claimants have come
forward, transfer of control of the
unassociated funerary object to the
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Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona
may proceed.
The Sternberg Museum of Natural
History is responsible for notifying the
Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona that
this notice has been published.
Dated: September 6, 2018.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Arizona State Museum, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, 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
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 the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona. 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 the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona at the address in
this notice by November 16, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Claire S. Barker,
Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box
210026, Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721, telephone (520) 626–0320, email
csbarker@email.arizona.edu.
SUMMARY:
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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 and associated
funerary objects under the control of the
Arizona State Museum (ASM),
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Pima
County, AZ.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the ASM
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of 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.’’
History and Description of the Remains
In 1953, human remains representing,
at minimum, two individuals were
removed from an unrecorded site,
designated AZ BB:14:—Rincon in Pima
County, AZ, by Ray Robinson, a private
citizen. This site is located in a cave in
the Rincon Mountains in the eastern
Tucson Basin. This collection was
received by ASM in April 2017. No
known individuals were identified. The
49 associated funerary objects are: Four
lots of animal bone, two antler
fragments, one lot of beads, one bone
awl, two lots of botanical material, three
lots of ceramic sherds, seven lots of
chipped stone, one chipped stone
projectile point preform, two lots of
cordage, one digging stick, one fire drill
base, one fossilized animal bone, one lot
of human hair and textiles, one human
hair bundle, one lithic core, one lot of
matting fragments, six sandals, one lot
of sandal fragments, one shell pendant,
one lot of soil and plant material, two
lots of stone, one lot of tabular knife
fragments, three lots of textiles, one
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wooden staff, and three lots of wooden
sticks. Based on the artifacts associated
with these remains and the geographic
location of discovery, these human
remains likely date to A.D. 500–1450,
which encompasses the Hohokam
cultural sequence.
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 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
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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
Officials of Arizona State Museum
have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of two
individuals of Native American
ancestry.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the 49 objects described in this notice
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.
• 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 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 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 Claire S. Barker,
Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box
210026, Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721, telephone (520) 626–0320, email
csbarker@email.arizona.edu, by
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November 16, 2018. After that date, if
no additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects 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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Notice of Inventory Completion:
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, have completed
an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects, in
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations, and have 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
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 the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona. 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 the Arizona State Museum at
the address in this notice by November
16, 2018.
SUMMARY:
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National Park Service
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 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 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 the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. 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 the Arizona State Museum, University of
Arizona at the address in this notice by November 16, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026,
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
telephone (520) 626-0320, 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. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects under the control of the Arizona State
Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from Pima County, AZ.
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 the ASM
professional staff in consultation with representatives of 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.''
History and Description of the Remains
In 1953, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals
were removed from an unrecorded site, designated AZ BB:14:--Rincon in
Pima County, AZ, by Ray Robinson, a private citizen. This site is
located in a cave in the Rincon Mountains in the eastern Tucson Basin.
This collection was received by ASM in April 2017. No known individuals
were identified. The 49 associated funerary objects are: Four lots of
animal bone, two antler fragments, one lot of beads, one bone awl, two
lots of botanical material, three lots of ceramic sherds, seven lots of
chipped stone, one chipped stone projectile point preform, two lots of
cordage, one digging stick, one fire drill base, one fossilized animal
bone, one lot of human hair and textiles, one human hair bundle, one
lithic core, one lot of matting fragments, six sandals, one lot of
sandal fragments, one shell pendant, one lot of soil and plant
material, two lots of stone, one lot of tabular knife fragments, three
lots of textiles, one
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wooden staff, and three lots of wooden sticks. Based on the artifacts
associated with these remains and the geographic location of discovery,
these human remains likely date to A.D. 500-1450, which encompasses the
Hohokam cultural sequence.
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
Officials of Arizona State Museum have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of
Native American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 49 objects described
in this notice 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.
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 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
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 Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator,
P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-0320, email [email protected],
by November 16, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated
funerary objects 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. 2018-22600 Filed 10-16-18; 8:45 am]
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