82 FR 41984 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 170 (September 5, 2017)

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, have corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, originally published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on February 27, 2012, and subsequently published in a corrected Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on November 17, 2014. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and number of associated funerary objects. 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 5, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41984-41985]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18684]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-23726; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, 
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, have corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, originally 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on February 27, 2012, and subsequently published in a corrected Notice 
of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on November 17, 2014. 
This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and number of 
associated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of 
any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this 
notice

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that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and 
associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs at the address 
in this notice by October 5, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, Reston, VA 20191, telephone 
(703) 390-6343, 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 correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the U.S. Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in the 
physical custody of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 
Tucson, AZ (ASM). The human remains and associated funerary objects 
were removed from a location within the boundaries of the Fort Apache 
Indian Reservation, Navajo 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.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and number 
of associated funerary objects originally published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (77 FR 11578-11580, 
February 27, 2012) and subsequently published in a corrected Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (79 FR 68472-68473, 
November 17, 2014). The number of human remains and associated funerary 
objects increased due a search through uncatalogued object collections.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 68473, November 17, 2014), column 1, 
paragraphs 3 and 4, under the heading ``Correction,'' are corrected by 
substituting the following paragraphs:

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 11579, February 27, 2012), 
paragraph 7 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
    In the years 1963 through 1977, human remains representing, at 
minimum, 1,023 individuals were removed from the Grasshopper Pueblo 
site AZ P:14:1(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ, as a result of legally 
authorized excavations conducted by the University of Arizona 
Archaeological Field School. Archeological collections from the site 
were brought to the museum at the end of each field season. No known 
individuals were identified. The 10,418 associated funerary objects 
are 710 animal bones, 2 animal skeletons, 1 antler wrench, 9 antler 
artifacts, 9 lots of beads of unidentified material, 21 bird bones, 
1 bird effigy pendant, 6 bird skeletons, 1 bird skull, 31 bone 
artifacts, 53 bone awls, 9 bone awl fragments, 6 lots of bone beads, 
2 bone needles, 47 bone rings, 1 bone spatula, 1 bone tool, 1 bone 
wand, 9 lots of botanical material, 2 ceramic artifacts, 719 ceramic 
bowls, 8 ceramic bowl fragments, 2 ceramic canteens, 1 ceramic 
figurine fragment, 223 ceramic jars, 7 ceramic jar fragments, 1 
ceramic ladle, 4 ceramic mugs, 1 ceramic pendant, 9 ceramic 
pitchers, 2 ceramic plates, 1 ceramic platter, 3 ceramic scoops, 
4,960 ceramic sherds, 7 ceramic sherd artifacts, 27 ceramic vessels, 
7 ceramic vessel fragments, 21 chipped stone cores, 2 chipped stone 
drills, 2 chipped stone fire-cracked rocks, 2,233 chipped stone 
flakes, 1 chipped stone scraper, 1 clay sample, 14 crystals, 22 
flotation samples, 10 fossils, 3 ground stones, 16 hammerstones, 1 
handstone, 17 manos, 2 mano fragments, 8 lots of matting, 45 
minerals, 3 mortars, 1 mosaic shell, 4 lots of organic material, 96 
pebbles, 2 pecking stones, 12 pendants, 18 polishing stones, 6 
pollen samples, 57 quartz crystals, 12 lots of raw material, 5 shaft 
straighteners, 111 shells, 3 lots of shell and stone beads, 7 shell 
artifacts, 1 shell artifact fragment, 32 lots of shell beads, 49 
shell bracelets, 6 shell bracelet fragments, 25 shell pendants, 3 
shell pendant fragments, 12 shell rings, 62 shell tinklers, 9 snail 
shells, 2 soil impressions, 58 soil samples, 14 stone artifacts, 1 
stone axe, 8 lots of stone beads, 3 stone blades, 1 stone bowl, 1 
stone disk, 6 stone figurines, 9 stone knives, 2 stone pendants, 257 
stone projectile points, 7 stone scrapers, 2 stone shaft smoothers, 
4 stone slabs, 12 tree ring samples, 5 lots of turquoise beads, 112 
turquoise pendants, 58 turquoise tesserae, 1 lot of unidentified 
material, 1 lot of unidentified organic material, 4 wood fragments, 
9 worked and unworked bones, and 3 worked stone flakes.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 68473, November 17, 2014), column 2, 
paragraphs 1 through 4, under the heading ``Correction,'' are corrected 
by substituting the following paragraphs:

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, February 27, 2012), 
paragraph 5 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C 3001(9), the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 1,023 individuals or 
Native American ancestry.
    In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, February 27, 2012), 
paragraph 6 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 10,418 objects described 
above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as a part of 
the death rite or ceremony.

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 Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, 12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, Reston, VA 
20191, telephone (703) 390-6343, email [email protected], by October 
5, 2017. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the 
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may proceed.
    The Arizona State Museum is responsible for notifying the Hopi 
Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: August 29, 2017.
Sarah Glass,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2017-18684 Filed 9-1-17; 8:45 am]
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