Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 65871-65872 [2020-22921]
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California Berkeley, 119 California Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720–1500, telephone
(510) 672–5388, email t.torma@
berkeley.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 University of California Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA. The human remains were
removed from Marin County, 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. 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 University of
California Berkeley professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria,
California.
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History and Description of the Remains
In November 1938, human remains
representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from a shell
mound near the Point Reyes Coast
Guard Station in Marin County, CA, by
Lloyd Travis Jr., a well-known biologist.
The human remains were put in the
collection of Milton Hildebrand, a
graduate student at the University of
California Berkeley’s Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology in the 1940’s. When
Hildebrand went to the University of
California Davis to teach in the Zoology
Department, he created his own
teaching collection for comparative
anatomy. In the 1980’s, after he retired,
Hildebrand gave his collection to the
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. No
known individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
Determinations Made by the University
of California Berkeley
Officials of the University of
California Berkeley 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 the Federated Indians of
Graton Rancheria, California.
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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 request transfer of control
of these human remains should submit
a written request with information in
support of the request to Dr. Thomas
Torma, NAGPRA Liaison, Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Research, University
of California Berkeley, 119 California
Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720–1500,
telephone (510) 672–5388, email
t.torma@berkeley.edu, by November 16,
2020. After that date, if no additional
requestors have come forward, transfer
of control of the human remains to the
Federated Tribes of Graton Rancheria,
California may proceed.
The University of California Berkeley
is responsible for notifying the
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria,
California that this notice has been
published.
Dated: September 28, 2020.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Portland Art Museum, Portland,
OR
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Portland Art Museum, in
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations, has determined that the
cultural items listed in this notice meet
the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to
claim these cultural items should
submit a written request to the Portland
Art Museum. If no additional claimants
come forward, transfer of control of the
cultural items 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
claim these cultural items should
submit a written request with
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information in support of the claim to
the Portland Art Museum at the address
in this notice by November 16, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Kathleen Ash-Milby,
Curator of Native American Art,
Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park
Avenue, Portland, OR 97205, telephone
(503) 276–4294, email kathleen.ashmilby@pam.org and Donald Urquhart,
Director of Collections and Special
Exhibitions, Portland Art Museum, 1219
SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205,
telephone (503) 276–4354, email
donald.urquhart@pam.org.
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 cultural
items under the control of the Portland
Art Museum, Portland, OR, that meet
the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony 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 items. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural
Items
Between 1921 and 1944, Axel
Rasmussen, Superintendent of Schools
first in Wrangell, AK, and later in
Skagway, AK, collected Native
American art and cultural items
primarily from the Tlingit communities
he served and from dealers in the
region. After his death in 1945, his
collection was transferred to art dealer
Earl Stendahl in California. This
collection was purchased by the
Portland Art Museum in 1948.
In 2002, the nine cultural items listed
in this notice were claimed by the
Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida
Indian Tribes on behalf of the
Naanya.aayi clan and the Wrangell
Cooperative Association. The cultural
items belonged to the Naanya.aayi clan
and were kept in their clan house
(known as the ‘‘Shakes House’’) under
the custody of the hereditary clan
leader, Chief Shakes, over multiple
generations. The last Chief Shakes,
Chief Shakes VII (aka Charlie Jones,
died 1944), was installed in 1940. The
cultural items have ongoing historical,
traditional, and cultural importance that
is central to the Tlingit clan structure.
They are necessary for the renewal and
continued practice of Tlingit religious
ceremonies, rituals, and traditions of
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their clans and clan leaders. Ownership
of the cultural items is shown by clan
crests displayed on eight of the cultural
items: The mudshark crest on catalog
numbers 48.3.419; 48.3.568; 48.3.569;
48.3.715, and the killer whale crest on
catalog numbers 48.3.553; 48.422 a, b;
48.3.528; 48.3.544. As they are
collectively owned by the Naanya.aayi
clan, these cultural items cannot be
alienated by any one individual.
The nine cultural items are described
as follows:
Items 1–3: X’a´tgu S’aaxw/Mudshark
Hat (catalog number 48.3.419); X’a´tgu
Kooda´s’/Mudshark shirt (catalog
number 48.3.715); Ditlein X’oow/Killer
whale Stranded on a Rock, Robe (catalog
number 48.3.553). According to
Portland Art Museum records, in 1930,
Rasmussen obtained the hat and shirt
from a family member of Chief Shakes
VI who died in 1915, and in 1934, he
obtained the robe from another family
member in Wrangell. According to oral
traditional information presented by the
Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida
Indian Tribes, these items were removed
by Wrangell police after the death of
Mrs. Kunk.
Item 4: Keet S’aaxw/Killer whale Hat
(catalog number 48.3.422 A, B).
According to museum records, on April
23, 1934, Rasmussen obtained the hat
from a family member of Chief Shakes
VI.
Item 5: Keet kuwool/Killer whale
With a Hole (catalog number 48.3.528).
According to museum records, this
wooden fin was first obtained by
Andrew Wanamaker in 1933, and
subsequently sold to Rasmussen.
Item 6: Keet Naaxein/Killer whale
Flotilla Chilkat Robe (catalog number
48.3.544). Museum records indicate that
in 1936, Rasmussen obtained the robe
from Esther Johnson Orcutt.
Photographic evidence of clan
ownership is provided by a 1913
photograph in the collections of the
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
entitled ‘‘Coonk Shakes, Nephew of a
Great Chief of Wrangell,’’ in which the
robe appears next to other clan property,
and a 1900 photograph showing the clan
house panel from which the robe design
was adopted.
Item 7: X’a´tgu Kooda´s’/Mudshark
Shirt (catalog number 48.3.568).
Museum records indicate that in 1934,
Rasmussen obtained the shirt from
William James, of Wrangell. According
to the Central Council of the Tlingit &
Haida Indian Tribes, Mr. James was the
son of L’axdujeek, a ‘‘tribal’’ sister of
Charlie Jones, aka Chief Shakes VII, and
was not from the Naanya.aayi clan.
Item 8: X’a´tgu Kooda´s’/Mudshark
Shirt with dentalia shell (catalog
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number 48.3.569). Museum records
indicate that in 1931, Rasmussen
obtained the shirt from Charlie Jones, of
Wrangell, AK. The 1931 sale occurred
before Jones was installed as Chief
Shakes (in 1940).
Item 9: Geet Shakee.at/Storm
Headdress (catalog number 48.3.435).
According to the Central Council of the
Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, this
headdress was captured from the
Tsimshian during a battle near the
mouth of the Stikine River. Imbued with
the words of ‘‘spirit songs,’’ it was worn
by the ixt’ (shaman) in ceremonial
dance. Photographs from ca.1890 and
1913 show the headdress in the clan
house together with other clan property.
Museum records indicate that in 1931,
Charlie Jones sold the headdress to
Rasmussen.
Association that this notice has been
published.
Determinations Made by the Portland
Art Museum:
SUMMARY:
Officials of the Portland Art Museum
have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D),
the nine cultural items described above
have 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 objects of cultural
patrimony and the Naanya.aayi clan, a
constituent of the Central Council of the
Tlingit & Haida Indian 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 these cultural items
should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to
Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native
American Art, Portland Art Museum,
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR
97205, telephone (503) 276–4294, email
kathleen.ash-milby@pam.org and
Donald Urquhart, Director of Collections
and Special Exhibitions, Portland Art
Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue,
Portland, OR 97205, telephone (503)
276–4354, email donald.urquhart@
pam.org, by November 16, 2020. After
that date, if no additional claimants
have come forward, transfer of control
of the objects of cultural patrimony to
the Central Council of the Tlingit &
Haida Indian Tribes may proceed.
The Portland Art Museum is
responsible for notifying the Central
Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian
Tribes and the Wrangell Cooperative
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Dated: September 16, 2020.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of California Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The University of California
Berkeley 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 present-day 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 should submit a written
request to the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Research, University of
California Berkeley. If no additional
requestors come forward, transfer of
control of the human remains to the
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 Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Research, University of
California Berkeley November 16, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas Torma,
NAGPRA Liaison, Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Research, University of
California Berkeley, 119 California Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720–1500, telephone
(510) 672–5388, email t.torma@
berkeley.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 and associated
funerary objects under the control of the
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Portland Art
Museum, Portland, OR
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Portland Art Museum, in consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the
cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of objects of
cultural patrimony. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian
Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice
that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request
to the Portland Art Museum. If no additional claimants come forward,
transfer of control of the cultural items 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
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to the Portland Art Museum at the
address in this notice by November 16, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art, Portland
Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205, telephone (503)
276-4294, email [email protected] and Donald Urquhart,
Director of Collections and Special Exhibitions, Portland Art Museum,
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205, telephone (503) 276-4354,
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 cultural items under the
control of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, that meet the
definition of objects of cultural patrimony 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 items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
Between 1921 and 1944, Axel Rasmussen, Superintendent of Schools
first in Wrangell, AK, and later in Skagway, AK, collected Native
American art and cultural items primarily from the Tlingit communities
he served and from dealers in the region. After his death in 1945, his
collection was transferred to art dealer Earl Stendahl in California.
This collection was purchased by the Portland Art Museum in 1948.
In 2002, the nine cultural items listed in this notice were claimed
by the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes on behalf
of the Naanya.aayi clan and the Wrangell Cooperative Association. The
cultural items belonged to the Naanya.aayi clan and were kept in their
clan house (known as the ``Shakes House'') under the custody of the
hereditary clan leader, Chief Shakes, over multiple generations. The
last Chief Shakes, Chief Shakes VII (aka Charlie Jones, died 1944), was
installed in 1940. The cultural items have ongoing historical,
traditional, and cultural importance that is central to the Tlingit
clan structure. They are necessary for the renewal and continued
practice of Tlingit religious ceremonies, rituals, and traditions of
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their clans and clan leaders. Ownership of the cultural items is shown
by clan crests displayed on eight of the cultural items: The mudshark
crest on catalog numbers 48.3.419; 48.3.568; 48.3.569; 48.3.715, and
the killer whale crest on catalog numbers 48.3.553; 48.422 a, b;
48.3.528; 48.3.544. As they are collectively owned by the Naanya.aayi
clan, these cultural items cannot be alienated by any one individual.
The nine cultural items are described as follows:
Items 1-3: X'[aacute]tgu S'aaxw/Mudshark Hat (catalog number
48.3.419); X'[aacute]tgu Kood[aacute]s'/Mudshark shirt (catalog number
48.3.715); Ditlein X'oow/Killer whale Stranded on a Rock, Robe (catalog
number 48.3.553). According to Portland Art Museum records, in 1930,
Rasmussen obtained the hat and shirt from a family member of Chief
Shakes VI who died in 1915, and in 1934, he obtained the robe from
another family member in Wrangell. According to oral traditional
information presented by the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida
Indian Tribes, these items were removed by Wrangell police after the
death of Mrs. Kunk.
Item 4: Keet S'aaxw/Killer whale Hat (catalog number 48.3.422 A,
B). According to museum records, on April 23, 1934, Rasmussen obtained
the hat from a family member of Chief Shakes VI.
Item 5: Keet kuwool/Killer whale With a Hole (catalog number
48.3.528). According to museum records, this wooden fin was first
obtained by Andrew Wanamaker in 1933, and subsequently sold to
Rasmussen.
Item 6: Keet Naaxein/Killer whale Flotilla Chilkat Robe (catalog
number 48.3.544). Museum records indicate that in 1936, Rasmussen
obtained the robe from Esther Johnson Orcutt. Photographic evidence of
clan ownership is provided by a 1913 photograph in the collections of
the Anchorage Museum of History and Art entitled ``Coonk Shakes, Nephew
of a Great Chief of Wrangell,'' in which the robe appears next to other
clan property, and a 1900 photograph showing the clan house panel from
which the robe design was adopted.
Item 7: X'[aacute]tgu Kood[aacute]s'/Mudshark Shirt (catalog number
48.3.568). Museum records indicate that in 1934, Rasmussen obtained the
shirt from William James, of Wrangell. According to the Central Council
of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, Mr. James was the son of
L'axdujeek, a ``tribal'' sister of Charlie Jones, aka Chief Shakes VII,
and was not from the Naanya.aayi clan.
Item 8: X'[aacute]tgu Kood[aacute]s'/Mudshark Shirt with dentalia
shell (catalog number 48.3.569). Museum records indicate that in 1931,
Rasmussen obtained the shirt from Charlie Jones, of Wrangell, AK. The
1931 sale occurred before Jones was installed as Chief Shakes (in
1940).
Item 9: Geet Shakee.at/Storm Headdress (catalog number 48.3.435).
According to the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes,
this headdress was captured from the Tsimshian during a battle near the
mouth of the Stikine River. Imbued with the words of ``spirit songs,''
it was worn by the ixt' (shaman) in ceremonial dance. Photographs from
ca.1890 and 1913 show the headdress in the clan house together with
other clan property. Museum records indicate that in 1931, Charlie
Jones sold the headdress to Rasmussen.
Determinations Made by the Portland Art Museum:
Officials of the Portland Art Museum have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the nine cultural items
described above have 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 objects
of cultural patrimony and the Naanya.aayi clan, a constituent of the
Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian 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
these cultural items should submit a written request with information
in support of the claim to Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native
American Art, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR
97205, telephone (503) 276-4294, email [email protected] and
Donald Urquhart, Director of Collections and Special Exhibitions,
Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205, telephone
(503) 276-4354, email [email protected], by November 16, 2020.
After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer
of control of the objects of cultural patrimony to the Central Council
of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes may proceed.
The Portland Art Museum is responsible for notifying the Central
Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes and the Wrangell
Cooperative Association that this notice has been published.
Dated: September 16, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-22921 Filed 10-15-20; 8:45 am]
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