83 FR 52529 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State Parks and Trails, Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 201 (October 17, 2018)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 201 (October 17, 2018)
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| FR Document | 2018-22599 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 52529-52530] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-22599] [[Page 52529]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026500; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State Parks and Trails, Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Arizona State Parks and Trails and the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have determined that the cultural item listed in this notice meets the definition of unassociated funerary object. 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 to the Arizona State Museum. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural item 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 this cultural item 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. ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu. 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 a cultural item under the control of Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 item. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. History and Description of the Cultural Items On an unknown date during or prior to 1960, one cultural item was removed by an unknown individual from an unrecorded site, designated AZ CC:2:--Safford Vicinity, located in Graham County, AZ. This object was described as having been removed from an ``Indian burial ground south of Safford, Arizona.'' The item was acquired by the Yuma Territorial Prison on an unknown date. In 1960, collections of the Yuma Territorial Prison were transferred to Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT). In December 2000, ASPT transferred the collection to the Arizona State Museum (ASM). The one unassociated funerary object is a ceramic jar. The human remains associated with this object are either missing or were not collected. Based on ceramic analysis, this object likely dates to A.D. 1050-1450, and is associated with the Mogollon culture. 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 (ASM) and Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT) Officials of the ASM and ASPT 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 [[Page 52530]] between the unassociated funerary object and 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.'' 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 John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu, by November 16, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary object 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. 2018-22599 Filed 10-16-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR History and Description of the Cultural dwellings associated with plazas,
Items rectangular kivas, polished and paint-
National Park Service On an unknown date during or prior decorated ceramics, painted and
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026500; to 1960, one cultural item was removed unpainted corrugated ceramics, red and
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] by an unknown individual from an brown ceramics, inhumation burials,
unrecorded site, designated AZ CC:2:— cradleboard cranial deformation,
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Safford Vicinity, located in Graham grooved stone axes, and bone artifacts.
Items: Arizona State Parks and Trails, County, AZ. This object was described In southeastern Arizona, there is
Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State as having been removed from an evidence for both Hohokam and
Museum, University of Arizona, ‘‘Indian burial ground south of Safford, Mogollon traditions, but it is unclear
Tucson, AZ Arizona.’’ The item was acquired by the whether this represents separate
Yuma Territorial Prison on an unknown occupations of different people who
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. interacted and exchanged material
ACTION: Notice. date. In 1960, collections of the Yuma
culture, or cohabitation and a blending
Territorial Prison were transferred to
SUMMARY: The Arizona State Parks and of identities.
Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT). Oral traditions that are documented
Trails and the Arizona State Museum, In December 2000, ASPT transferred the
University of Arizona, in consultation for the Ak-Chin Indian Community
collection to the Arizona State Museum (previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian
with the appropriate Indian Tribes or (ASM). The one unassociated funerary
Native Hawaiian organizations, have Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
object is a ceramic jar. The human Indian Reservation, Arizona); Gila River
determined that the cultural item listed remains associated with this object are
in this notice meets the definition of Indian Community of the Gila River
either missing or were not collected. Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River
unassociated funerary object. Lineal Based on ceramic analysis, this object
descendants or representatives of any Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of
likely dates to A.D. 1050–1450, and is the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian associated with the Mogollon culture.
organization not identified in this notice the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona
Archeologists describe the earliest
that wish to claim this cultural item support cultural affiliation with Late
settlements in southern Arizona as
should submit a written request to the Archaic/Early Agricultural period and
belonging to the Late Archaic/Early
Arizona State Museum. If no additional Hohokam sites in southern Arizona.
Agricultural horizon. Recent Oral traditions that are documented
claimants come forward, transfer of archeological investigations have added
control of the cultural item to the lineal for the Hopi Tribe also support cultural
support to the hypothesis that the affiliation with Late Archaic/Early
descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hohokam cultural tradition arose from
Hawaiian organizations stated in this Agricultural period and Hohokam sites
the earlier horizon, based on in the region. Several Hopi clans and
notice may proceed. continuities in settlement pattern, religious societies are derived from
DATES: Lineal descendants or architectural technologies, irrigation ancestors who migrated from the south,
representatives of any Indian Tribe or technologies, subsistence patterns, and and likely identified with the Hohokam
Native Hawaiian organization not material culture. Archeologists have had tradition. Oral traditions and
identified in this notice that wish to difficulty dating the beginning of the archeological evidence also support
request transfer of control of this Hohokam period because the affiliation of Hopi clans with the
cultural item should submit a written appearance of its distinctive cultural Mogollon archeological sites.
request with information in support of traits, including ceramic technologies Oral traditions of medicine societies
the request to the Arizona State and mortuary patterns, was a gradual and kiva groups of the Zuni Tribe
Museum at the address in this notice by process spanning several hundred years. recount migration from distant portions
November 16, 2018. This observation adds further support to of the Southwest to present day Zuni,
ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA the hypothesis that the Hohokam and support affiliation with Mogollon,
Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona tradition evolved in place from earlier Hohokam, and Late Archaic traditions.
State Museum, University of Arizona, Late Archaic traditions. Linguistic Historical linguistic analysis also
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626– evidence furthermore suggests that the suggests interaction between ancestral
2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu. Hohokam tradition was multiethnic in Zuni and Uto-Aztecan speakers during
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is nature. Cultural continuity between the late Hohokam period.
here given in accordance with the these prehistoric occupants of Southern
Native American Graves Protection and Arizona and present-day O’odham Determinations Made by the Arizona
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. peoples is supported by continuities in State Museum (ASM) and Arizona State
3005, of the intent to repatriate a settlement pattern, architectural Parks and Trails (ASPT)
cultural item under the control of technologies, basketry, textiles, ceramic Officials of the ASM and ASPT have
Arizona State Museum, University of technology, and ritual practices. determined that:
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, that meets the Archeologists have also recognized • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
definition of an unassociated funerary the presence of people associated with the one cultural item described above is
object under 25 U.S.C. 3001. the Mogollon tradition in southeastern reasonably believed to have been placed
This notice is published as part of the Arizona. It is thought that their presence with or near individual human remains
National Park Service’s administrative represents a migration of people from at the time of death or later as part of
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 the mountainous region to the north, the death rite or ceremony and is
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U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in where the Mogollon archeological believed, by a preponderance of the
this notice are the sole responsibility of culture was originally defined. Material evidence, to have been removed from a
the museum, institution, or Federal culture characteristics of Mogollon specific burial site of a Native American
agency that has control of the Native traditions include a temporal individual.
American cultural item. The National progression from earlier pit houses to • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
Park Service is not responsible for the later masonry pueblos, villages is a relationship of shared group
determinations in this notice. organized in room blocks of contiguous identity that can be reasonably traced
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between the unassociated funerary descendants or representatives of any Miwuk Indians; Shingle Springs Band of
object and the Ak-Chin Indian Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Community (previously listed as the Ak organization not identified in this notice Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Chin Indian Community of the that wish to request transfer of control and the United Auburn Indian
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, of these human remains and associated Community of the Auburn Rancheria of
Arizona); Gila River Indian Community funerary objects should submit a written California (hereafter ‘‘The Consulted
of the Gila River Indian Reservation, request to UC Davis and Reclamation. If Tribes’’). Berry Creek Rancheria of
Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt no additional requestors come forward, Maidu Indians of California; Enterprise
River Pima-Maricopa Indian transfer of control of the human remains Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
Community of the Salt River and associated funerary objects to the California; Greenville Rancheria;
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe Native Hawaiian organizations stated in of California; Susanville Indian
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, this notice may proceed. Rancheria; and the Wilton Rancheria
hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes.’’ DATES: Lineal descendants or were invited to consult and either
representatives of any Indian tribe or deferred or did not respond (hereafter
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Native Hawaiian organization not ‘‘The Invited Tribes’’).
Lineal descendants or representatives identified in this notice that wish to
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian History and Description of the Remains
request transfer of control of these
organization not identified in this notice Between 1966 and 1967, human
human remains and associated funerary
that wish to claim this cultural item remains representing, at minimum, four
objects should submit a written request
should submit a written request with individuals were removed from CA–
with information in support of the
information in support of the claim to ELD–90, near the City of Cool, El
request to UC Davis and Reclamation at
John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, Dorado County, CA. The site was
the addresses in this notice by
P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State identified as a prehistoric midden. UC
November 16, 2018. Davis archeologists Jeffrey Childress and
Museum, University of Arizona,
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Eric Ritter excavated the site under the
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626–
2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu, Project Manager, University of direction of Dr. Martin Baumhoff and
by November 16, 2018. After that date, California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One D.L. True as a part of the Auburn Dam
if no additional requestors have come Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, Project. The excavation was conducted
forward, transfer of control of the telephone (530) 752–8501, email by the National Park Service on behalf
unassociated funerary object to The mnoble@ucdavis.edu, or Melanie Ryan, of Reclamation in anticipation of the
Tribes may proceed. NAGPRA Specialist/Physical construction of the Auburn Dam. In
The Arizona State Museum is Anthropologist, Bureau of Reclamation, 1971 and 1972, Reclamation acquired
responsible for notifying The Tribes that Mid-Pacific Regional Office, MP–153, the land on which the site is situated.
this notice has been published. 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA Control of the site was disputed for a
95825, telephone (916) 978–5526, email number of years. In 2016, UC Davis and
Dated: September 14, 2018. emryan@usbr.gov. Reclamation agreed to jointly comply
Melanie O’Brien,
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is with NAGPRA. Burial 1 is the nearly
Manager, National NAGPRA Program. here given in accordance with the complete remains of an adult female
[FR Doc. 2018–22599 Filed 10–16–18; 8:45 am] Native American Graves Protection and inhumation. Burials 2, 3, and 4 were
BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. disarticulated and disassociated. Burial
3003, of the completion of an inventory 2 is possibly the remains of a male.
of human remains and associated Burial 3 is the incomplete remains of a
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR funerary objects under the control of the possible adult cremation. Burial 4 is the
National Park Service UC Davis, Davis, CA and Reclamation, remains of a child inhumation. The
Sacramento, CA. The human remains human remains have been determined
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026501; and associated funerary objects were to be Native American based on the
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] removed from El Dorado and Placer archaeological context of the site and
Counties, CA. physiological characteristics of the
Notice of Inventory Completion: This notice is published as part of the dentition. The 373 associated funerary
University of California, Davis, Davis, National Park Service’s administrative objects include: 3 Lots of ash, 34 lots of
CA, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 non-human bones, 3 bone awls, 1
Mid-Pacific Region, Sacramento, CA U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in broken cobble, 10 lots of charcoal, 38
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. this notice are the sole responsibility of cores, 50 lots of debitage, 3 drills, 15
ACTION: Notice. the museum, institution, or Federal flake knives, 1 hammerstone, 1 piece of
agency that has control of the Native historic glass, 1 mano, 1 lot of
SUMMARY: The University of California, American human remains and miscellaneous organic material, 1
Davis (UC Davis) and U.S. Bureau of associated funerary objects. The miscellaneous steatite artifact, 7
Reclamation (Reclamation), Mid-Pacific National Park Service is not responsible miscellaneous worked stones, 4
Region, Sacramento, CA, has completed for the determinations in this notice. miscellaneous mineral fragments, 6 lots
an inventory of human remains and of ochre, 1 steatite ornament, 1 pebble,
associated funerary objects in Consultation 1 possible retouched flake, 84 lots of
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consultation with the appropriate A detailed assessment of the human possibly unmodified stones, 37 quartz
Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian remains was made by UC Davis and crystals, 1 scraper, 3 shells, 1 shell bead,
organizations, and has determined that Reclamation professional staff in 6 stones, 1 stone bead, 56 projectile
there is a cultural affiliation between the consultation with the Buena Vista points, and 2 pieces of wood.
human remains and associated funerary Rancheria of Me-wuk Indians of Between 1966 and 1967, human
objects and present-day Indian tribes or California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians remains representing, at minimum, four
Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal of California; Jackson Rancheria Band of individuals were removed from CA–
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