[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 44280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18434]
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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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