83 FR 32316 - Notice of Inventory Completion: St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 134 (July 12, 2018)

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FR Document		2018-14901

The St. Joseph Museum has completed an inventory of human remains, 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 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 should submit a written request to the St. Joseph Museum. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0025769; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. 
Joseph, MO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The St. Joseph Museum has completed an inventory of human 
remains, 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 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 
should submit a written request to the St. Joseph Museum. If no 
additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains 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

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request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the St. 
Joseph Museum at the address in this notice by August 13, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Trevor Tutt, Collections Manager, St. Joseph Museums, Inc., 
St. Joseph, MO 64506, telephone (816) 232-8471, email 
trevor@stjosephmuseum.org.

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 St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO. The human 
remains were removed from Kake, AK.
    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 St. 
Joseph Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives 
of the Organized Village of Kake.

History and Description of the Remains

    Prior to 1910, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Kake, AK. Subsequently, William H. Case 
transferred these human remains to Harry L. George, who, in turn 
donated them to the St. Joseph Museum. The human remains--a jaw bone--
belonged to a Medicine Man who had died and was buried in a grave 
house, in accordance with Native custom. When a sickness, attributed to 
evil spirits, fell upon the village the Medicine Man's bones were 
thrown in salt water. A white missionary from Kake was said to have 
retrieved the jaw bone from the Pacific Ocean several years later, 
accounting for the barnacles found on the teeth. As Russian 
missionaries first arrived in Kake in the 1790s, the retrieval of the 
jaw by a white missionary would have occurred between the 1790s and 
early 1910, when Case photographed it and sent the images to George. 
George had purchased the jawbone along with a series of ivory buttons 
and a jade axe head for $30.00 no later than July 14, 1911.
    The Harry George collection was originally meant to be donated to 
the St. Joseph Museum prior to George's death in 1923, but due to lack 
of storage space, it was on loan to the Missouri State Museum in 
Jefferson City until it transferred to the St. Joseph Museum in October 
1944. The bulk of the collection was stored in the basement of the St. 
Joseph City Hall while select items were displayed at the AJ August 
House, the second location of the St. Joseph Museum. After the St. 
Joseph Museum received the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion as their main display 
site in 1946, the vast majority of the items went on display there. 
That same year, funds were provided for the St. Joseph Museum to 
purchase the George Collection outright. The human remains in the 
collection have remained in storage since at least the 1970s. When the 
St. Joseph Museum, now the St. Joseph Museums, Inc., moved to the Glore 
Psychiatric Museum in 2004, much of the George Collection was moved as 
well, including the jaw bone. In 2017, it, and other human remains were 
returned to storage at the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion for processing under 
NAGPRA.
    Research into the Harry George Collection, specifically the William 
H. Case photographs, began around 2017. Zachary Jones, Archivist at the 
Alaska State Archives, assisted in identifying objects in the 
collection and initiated consultation with the Organized Village of 
Kake. Frank Hughes, the NAGPRA Coordinator for the Organized Village of 
Kake, contacted Trevor Tutt, the Collections Manager for the St. Joseph 
Museums, Inc., and began correspondence related to items of cultural 
patrimony and remains related to Kake, Alaska. Through correspondence, 
the oral tradition of human remains being thrown in salt water in 
retaliation against a sickness in the village was confirmed. As 
research indicates that missionary activity in Kake peaked during the 
1890s-1910 period, the jaw might have been removed during that two 
decade span.

Determinations Made by the St. Joseph Museum

    Officials of the St. Joseph Museum 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 Organized Village of Kake.

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 Trevor 
Tutt, Collections Manager, St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO 
64506, telephone (816) 232-8471, email trevor@stjosephmuseum.org, by 
August 13, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Organized 
Village of Kake may proceed.
    The St. Joseph Museum is responsible for notifying the Organized 
Village of Kake that this notice has been published.

    Dated: June 12, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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part of the group of human remains that The inventory that Assistant State that date, if no additional requestors
was re-interred on the grounds of the Archaeologist Barbara Mead compiled have come forward, transfer of control
Walker Tavern site in 1925. in 1995 included the following of the human remains and associated
In 2009, the Department of History, information on cultural affiliation: funerary objects to the Citizen
Arts, and Libraries, which included Probably Potawatomi. Early in the Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest
both the OSA and the state museum, eighteenth century, the Potawatomi, County Potawatomi Community,
was eliminated. The state museum was Miami, Ottawa, Huron/Wyandotte and Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian
moved into the Department of Natural Kickapoo were present in southern Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of
Resources, and the OSA was moved into Michigan. Most of the reports for tribes Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
the Michigan State Housing other than the Potawatomi are from the Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi
Development Authority. Soon after that, pre-1720 era. By the 1760s, the Nation (previously listed as the Prairie
the OSA was eliminated, and the Potawatomi territory included Lenawee Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas)
archaeology staff were moved into the County; no other tribes seemed to be may proceed.
SHPO. Consequently, the archaeological present, except perhaps as travelers or The State Historic Preservation Office
collections, including the Walker temporary residents. (Cleland, Charles is responsible for notifying the Citizen
Tavern materials, are now held by the E., 1992, Rites of Conquest, the Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest
SHPO. University of Michigan Press; Tanner, County Potawatomi Community,
The human remains in the Walker Helen Hornbeck (ed.), 1987, Atlas of Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian
Tavern collection include a single Great Lakes Indian History, University Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of
cranium with no teeth present and of Oklahoma Press; Trigger, Bruce G. Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
lacking the mandible. The cranium was (ed.), 1978, Handbook of North Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi
examined by a physical anthropologist American Indians, Vol. 15: Northeast, Nation (previously listed as the Prairie
who stated that the individual was Smithsonian Institution). Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas)
approximately 10–15 years of age, and Determinations Made by the State that this notice has been published.
that no determination of sex or ethnic Historic Preservation Office Dated: June 21, 2018.
identity of the individual could be Melanie O’Brien,
made. No known individuals were Officials of the State Historic
Preservation Office have determined Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
identified.
that: [FR Doc. 2018–14905 Filed 7–11–18; 8:45 am]
When the state museum assumed • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
responsibility for the Walker Tavern human remains described in this notice
collection in 1975, the cranium was represent the physical remains of one
recorded under Michigan Department of individual of Native American ancestry. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Conservation accession number A1253. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
The state museum assigned catalog the 18 objects described in this notice National Park Service
number FA–155–75 to the cranium. are reasonably believed to have been
The state museum also cataloged a [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025769;
placed with or near individual human PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
group of 18 funerary objects associated remains at the time of death or later as
with the human remains disinterred part of the death rite or ceremony. Notice of Inventory Completion: St.
during road construction in the 1920s. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO
The 18 associated funerary objects are: is a relationship of shared group
One pewter spoon, one bottle, one oval identity that can be reasonably traced AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
stone, one deer mandible, three loose between the Native American human ACTION: Notice.
teeth, one lot of fur pieces with tassels remains and associated funerary objects
wrapped in porcupine quill, one silver and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, SUMMARY: The St. Joseph Museum has
armband, one wooden bowl or toy Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi completed an inventory of human
canoe, one lot of wool scraps, one lot of Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville remains, in consultation with the
linen scraps, one silver armband, one Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon appropriate Indian Tribes or Native
copper or brass kettle fragment, one iron Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan Hawaiian organizations, and has
knife blade, one lot of very small bone and Indiana; and Prairie Band determined that there is a cultural
chips, one lot of shell and glass beads Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as affiliation between the human remains
and one pewter bowl. the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, and present-day Indian Tribes or Native
Based on the funerary objects, it is Kansas). Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
estimated that the original interment of descendants or representatives of any
the objects and the human remains took Additional Requestors and Disposition Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
place between approximately 1760 and Lineal descendants or representatives organization not identified in this notice
1810. A typescript in the MHC Walker of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian that wish to request transfer of control
Tavern files identified as an article in organization not identified in this notice of these human remains should submit
the Lenawee County Exponent dated that wish to request transfer of control a written request to the St. Joseph
November 22, 1923, describes the of these human remains and associated Museum. If no additional requestors
discovery of Indian graves and artifacts funerary objects should submit a written come forward, transfer of control of the
during road construction work in the request with information in support of human remains to the lineal
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Irish Hills area. The article mentions the request to Dean L. Anderson, State descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native
some of the same funerary objects Historic Preservation Office, Michigan Hawaiian organizations stated in this
described above and associated with the State Housing Development Authority, notice may proceed.
cranium. This assemblage of funerary 735 East Michigan Avenue, P.O. Box DATES: Lineal descendants or
objects, including trade silver and 30044, Lansing, MI 48909, telephone representatives of any Indian Tribe or
beads, together with the cranium, (517) 373–1618, email andersond15@ Native Hawaiian organization not
represent a Native American interment. michigan.gov, by August 13, 2018. After identified in this notice that wish to

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request transfer of control of these The Harry George collection was Additional Requestors and Disposition
human remains should submit a written originally meant to be donated to the St. Lineal descendants or representatives
request with information in support of Joseph Museum prior to George’s death of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
the request to the St. Joseph Museum at in 1923, but due to lack of storage space, organization not identified in this notice
the address in this notice by August 13, it was on loan to the Missouri State that wish to request transfer of control
2018. Museum in Jefferson City until it of these human remains should submit
ADDRESSES: Trevor Tutt, Collections transferred to the St. Joseph Museum in a written request with information in
Manager, St. Joseph Museums, Inc., October 1944. The bulk of the collection support of the request to Trevor Tutt,
St. Joseph, MO 64506, telephone (816) was stored in the basement of the St. Collections Manager, St. Joseph
232–8471, email trevor@ Joseph City Hall while select items were Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO 64506,
stjosephmuseum.org. displayed at the AJ August House, the telephone (816) 232–8471, email
second location of the St. Joseph trevor@stjosephmuseum.org, by August
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Museum. After the St. Joseph Museum 13, 2018. After that date, if no
here given in accordance with the received the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion as additional requestors have come
Native American Graves Protection and their main display site in 1946, the vast forward, transfer of control of the
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. majority of the items went on display human remains to the Organized Village
3003, of the completion of an inventory there. That same year, funds were of Kake may proceed.
of human remains under the control of provided for the St. Joseph Museum to The St. Joseph Museum is responsible
the St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, purchase the George Collection outright. for notifying the Organized Village of
MO. The human remains were removed The human remains in the collection Kake that this notice has been
from Kake, AK. have remained in storage since at least published.
This notice is published as part of the the 1970s. When the St. Joseph
National Park Service’s administrative Museum, now the St. Joseph Museums, Dated: June 12, 2018.
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Inc., moved to the Glore Psychiatric Melanie O’Brien,
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in Museum in 2004, much of the George Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
this notice are the sole responsibility of Collection was moved as well, including [FR Doc. 2018–14901 Filed 7–11–18; 8:45 am]
the museum, institution, or Federal the jaw bone. In 2017, it, and other BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
agency that has control of the Native human remains were returned to storage
American human remains. The National at the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion for
Park Service is not responsible for the processing under NAGPRA. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
determinations in this notice. Research into the Harry George
Collection, specifically the William H. National Park Service
Consultation
Case photographs, began around 2017.
A detailed assessment of the human Zachary Jones, Archivist at the Alaska [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025692;
remains was made by the St. Joseph State Archives, assisted in identifying PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Museum professional staff in objects in the collection and initiated
consultation with the Organized Village Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
consultation with representatives of the
of Kake. Frank Hughes, the NAGPRA Department of Agriculture, Tongass
Organized Village of Kake.
Coordinator for the Organized Village of National Forest, Juneau Ranger
History and Description of the Remains Kake, contacted Trevor Tutt, the District, Juneau, AK
Prior to 1910, human remains Collections Manager for the St. Joseph AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
representing, at minimum, one Museums, Inc., and began ACTION: Notice.
individual were removed from Kake, correspondence related to items of
AK. Subsequently, William H. Case cultural patrimony and remains related SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
transferred these human remains to to Kake, Alaska. Through Agriculture, Tongass National Forest,
Harry L. George, who, in turn donated correspondence, the oral tradition of Juneau Ranger District, (Tongass
them to the St. Joseph Museum. The human remains being thrown in salt National Forest) has completed an
human remains—a jaw bone—belonged water in retaliation against a sickness in inventory of human remains and
to a Medicine Man who had died and the village was confirmed. As research associated funerary objects, in
was buried in a grave house, in indicates that missionary activity in consultation with the appropriate
accordance with Native custom. When a Kake peaked during the 1890s–1910 Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
sickness, attributed to evil spirits, fell period, the jaw might have been organizations, and has determined that
upon the village the Medicine Man’s removed during that two decade span. there is a cultural affiliation between the
bones were thrown in salt water. A Determinations Made by the St. Joseph human remains and associated funerary
white missionary from Kake was said to Museum objects and present-day Indian Tribes or
have retrieved the jaw bone from the Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
Pacific Ocean several years later, Officials of the St. Joseph Museum descendants or representatives of any
accounting for the barnacles found on have determined that: Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
the teeth. As Russian missionaries first • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the organization not identified in this notice
arrived in Kake in the 1790s, the human remains described in this notice that wish to request transfer of control
retrieval of the jaw by a white represent the physical remains of one of the human remains and associated
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1

missionary would have occurred individual of Native American ancestry. funerary objects should submit a written
between the 1790s and early 1910, when • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there request to the Tongass National Forest.
Case photographed it and sent the is a relationship of shared group If no additional requestors come
images to George. George had purchased identity that can be reasonably traced forward, transfer of control of the
the jawbone along with a series of ivory between the Native American human human remains and associated funerary
buttons and a jade axe head for $30.00 remains and the Organized Village of objects to the lineal descendants, Indian
no later than July 14, 1911. Kake. Tribes, or Native Hawaiian

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FR Citation		83 FR 32316

83 FR 32316 - Notice of Inventory Completion: St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

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