83 FR 52539 - Notice of Inventory Completion: 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)

Page Range		52539-52541
FR Document		2018-22596

The Arizona State Parks and Trails and the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and have determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. 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.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

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Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Parks and Trails, 
Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, 
AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Parks and Trails and the Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, have completed an inventory of human 
remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and have 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request 
to the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. 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 Arizona State Museum at the address in 
this notice by November 16, 2018.

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ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, 
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 
telephone (520) 626-2950, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Arizona State 
Parks and Trails (ASPT), Phoenix, AZ, and in the physical custody of 
the Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Santa 
Cruz and Yuma Counties, 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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the ASM 
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Ak-Chin 
Indian Community (previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian Community of 
the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona); Cocopah Tribe of 
Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pascua Yaqui Tribe of 
Arizona; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California 
& Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River 
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe 
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, hereafter referred to as ``The 
Consulted Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1981, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from site AZ EE:9:91(ASM), located in Patagonia Lake State 
Park, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The human remains were collected 
during a survey project directed by Kurt Dongoske and a testing project 
conducted by the Cultural Resource Management Division of the ASM under 
the direction of John Czaplicki. The human remains were brought to ASM 
and an accession number was assigned in 1990. No known individuals were 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. This site is 
described as a Hohokam village. Based on material culture, the site 
likely dates to A.D. 950-1300, during the Sedentary and early Classic 
Periods of the Hohokam cultural sequence.
    At an unknown date prior to 1948, human remains representing, at 
minimum, one individual were removed from an unrecorded location, AZ 
X:8:--Wellton vicinity, on land south of Wellton in Yuma County, AZ. 
The human remains, contained in a ceramic jar, were collected by John 
Draper. In 1948, Mr. Draper donated the human remains and jar to the 
Yuma Territorial Prison Museum, which later came under the control of 
ASPT. In December 2000, ASP transferred the collection to ASM. No known 
individuals were identified. The one associated funerary object is a 
ceramic jar. The human remains and jar may have been removed from a 
cave, but there is no more specific information regarding the location 
or archeological context. The ceramic vessel is classified as Gila 
Plain, Gila Variety and is characteristic of ceramics produced by 
Hohokam people residing along the middle Gila River between Florence 
and Gila Bend, Arizona. The vessel likely dates to A.D. 950-1150, 
during the Sedentary Period of the Hohokam cultural sequence.
    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. It 
has been difficult for archeologists to date 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. 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 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 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 Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT) and the 
Arizona State Museum (ASM)

    Officials of ASPT and ASM have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the one object described 
in this notice 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.
     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 associated funerary objects 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 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated

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funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box 
210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 
telephone (520) 626-2950, email [email protected], by November 
16, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to The Tribes may proceed.
    The ASM is responsible for notifying The Consulted Tribes that this 
notice has been published.

    Dated: September 14, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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wooden staff, and three lots of wooden Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) November 16, 2018. After that date, if
sticks. Based on the artifacts associated Indian Reservation, Arizona); Gila River no additional requestors have come
with these remains and the geographic Indian Community of the Gila River forward, transfer of control of the
location of discovery, these human Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River human remains and associated funerary
remains likely date to A.D. 500–1450, Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of objects to The Tribes may proceed.
which encompasses the Hohokam the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and The Arizona State Museum is
cultural sequence. the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona responsible for notifying The Tribes that
Archeologists describe the earliest support cultural affiliation with Late this notice has been published.
settlements in Southern Arizona as Archaic/Early Agricultural period and Dated: September 14, 2018.
belonging to the Late Archaic/Early Hohokam sites in southern Arizona.
Agricultural horizon. Recent Melanie O’Brien,
Oral traditions that are documented
archeological investigations have added for the Hopi Tribe also support cultural Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
support to the hypothesis that the affiliation with Late Archaic/Early [FR Doc. 2018–22600 Filed 10–16–18; 8:45 am]
Hohokam cultural tradition arose from Agricultural period and Hohokam sites BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
the earlier horizon, based on in the region. Several Hopi clans and
continuities in settlement pattern, religious societies are derived from
architectural technologies, irrigation ancestors who migrated from the south DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
technologies, subsistence patterns, and and likely identified with the Hohokam
material culture. Archeologists have had National Park Service
tradition. Oral traditions and
difficulty dating the beginning of the archeological evidence also support
Hohokam period because the affiliation of Hopi clans with the [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026497;
appearance of its distinctive cultural PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Mogollon archeological sites.
traits, including ceramic technologies Oral traditions of medicine societies
and mortuary patterns, was a gradual Notice of Inventory Completion:
and kiva groups of the Zuni Tribe
process spanning several hundred years. Arizona State Parks and Trails,
recount migration from distant portions
This observation adds further support to Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State
of the Southwest to present day Zuni,
the hypothesis that the Hohokam Museum, University of Arizona,
and support affiliation with Mogollon,
tradition evolved in place from earlier Tucson, AZ
Hohokam, and Late Archaic traditions.
Late Archaic traditions. Linguistic Historical linguistic analysis also AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
evidence furthermore suggests that the suggests interaction between ancestral
Hohokam tradition was multiethnic in ACTION: Notice.
Zuni and Uto-Aztecan speakers during
nature. Cultural continuity between the late Hohokam period. SUMMARY: The Arizona State Parks and
these prehistoric occupants of Southern Trails and the Arizona State Museum,
Arizona and present-day O’odham Determinations Made by the Arizona
State Museum University of Arizona, have completed
peoples is supported by continuities in an inventory of human remains and
settlement pattern, architectural Officials of Arizona State Museum associated funerary objects, in
technologies, basketry, textiles, ceramic have determined that: consultation with the appropriate
technology, and ritual practices. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
Archeologists have also recognized human remains described in this notice organizations, and have determined that
the presence of people associated with represent the physical remains of two there is a cultural affiliation between the
the Mogollon tradition in southeastern individuals of Native American human remains and associated funerary
Arizona. It is thought that their presence ancestry. objects and present-day Indian Tribes or
represents a migration of people from • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
the mountainous region to the north, the 49 objects described in this notice
descendants or representatives of any
where the Mogollon archeological are reasonably believed to have been
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
culture was originally defined. Material placed with or near individual human
culture characteristics of Mogollon organization not identified in this notice
remains at the time of death or later as
traditions include a temporal that wish to request transfer of control
part of the death rite or ceremony.
progression from earlier pit houses to • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there of these human remains and associated
later masonry pueblos, villages is a relationship of shared group funerary objects should submit a written
organized in room blocks of contiguous identity that can be reasonably traced request to the Arizona State Museum,
dwellings associated with plazas, between the Native American human University of Arizona. If no additional
rectangular kivas, polished and paint- remains and associated funerary objects requestors come forward, transfer of
decorated ceramics, painted and and The Tribes. control of the human remains and
unpainted corrugated ceramics, red and associated funerary objects to the lineal
brown ceramics, inhumation burials, Additional Requestors and Disposition descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native
cradleboard cranial deformation, Lineal descendants or representatives Hawaiian organizations stated in this
grooved stone axes, and bone artifacts. of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian notice may proceed.
In southeastern Arizona, there is organization not identified in this notice DATES: Lineal descendants or
evidence for both Hohokam and that wish to request transfer of control representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Mogollon traditions, but it is unclear of these human remains and associated Native Hawaiian organization not
whether this represents separate funerary objects should submit a written identified in this notice that wish to
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occupations of different people who request with information in support of request transfer of control of these
interacted and exchanged material the request to Claire S. Barker, human remains and associated funerary
culture, or cohabitation and a blending Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box objects should submit a written request
of identities. 210026, Arizona State Museum, with information in support of the
Oral traditions that are documented University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ request to the Arizona State Museum at
for the Ak-Chin Indian Community 85721, telephone (520) 626–0320, email the address in this notice by November
(previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian csbarker@email.arizona.edu, by 16, 2018.

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ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA This site is described as a Hohokam Reservation, Arizona); Gila River Indian
Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona village. Based on material culture, the Community of the Gila River Indian
State Museum, University of Arizona, site likely dates to A.D. 950–1300, Reservation, Arizona; Salt River Pima-
Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626– during the Sedentary and early Classic Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt
2950, email jmcclell@email.arizona.edu. Periods of the Hohokam cultural River Reservation, Arizona; and the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is sequence. Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona,
here given in accordance with the At an unknown date prior to 1948, support cultural affiliation with Late
Native American Graves Protection and human remains representing, at Archaic/Early Agricultural period and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. minimum, one individual were removed Hohokam sites in southern Arizona.
3003, of the completion of an inventory from an unrecorded location, AZ X:8:— Oral traditions that are documented
of human remains and associated Wellton vicinity, on land south of for the Hopi Tribe also support cultural
funerary objects under the control of the Wellton in Yuma County, AZ. The affiliation with Late Archaic/Early
Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT), human remains, contained in a ceramic Agricultural period and Hohokam sites
Phoenix, AZ, and in the physical jar, were collected by John Draper. In in the region. Several Hopi clans and
custody of the Arizona State Museum 1948, Mr. Draper donated the human religious societies are derived from
(ASM), University of Arizona, Tucson, remains and jar to the Yuma Territorial ancestors who migrated from the south
AZ. The human remains and associated Prison Museum, which later came under and likely identified with the Hohokam
funerary objects were removed from the control of ASPT. In December 2000, tradition.
Santa Cruz and Yuma Counties, AZ. ASP transferred the collection to ASM. Oral traditions of medicine societies
This notice is published as part of the No known individuals were identified. and kiva groups of the Zuni Tribe
National Park Service’s administrative The one associated funerary object is a recount migration from distant portions
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 ceramic jar. The human remains and jar of the Southwest to present day Zuni,
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in may have been removed from a cave, and support affiliation with Hohokam
this notice are the sole responsibility of but there is no more specific and Late Archaic traditions. Historical
the museum, institution, or Federal information regarding the location or linguistic analysis also suggests
agency that has control of the Native archeological context. The ceramic interaction between ancestral Zuni and
American human remains and vessel is classified as Gila Plain, Gila Uto-Aztecan speakers during the late
associated funerary objects. The Variety and is characteristic of ceramics Hohokam period.
National Park Service is not responsible produced by Hohokam people residing
along the middle Gila River between Determinations Made by Arizona State
for the determinations in this notice.
Florence and Gila Bend, Arizona. The Parks and Trails (ASPT) and the
Consultation vessel likely dates to A.D. 950–1150, Arizona State Museum (ASM)
A detailed assessment of the human during the Sedentary Period of the Officials of ASPT and ASM have
remains was made by the ASM Hohokam cultural sequence. determined that:
professional staff in consultation with Archeologists describe the earliest • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
representatives of the Ak-Chin Indian settlements in southern Arizona as human remains described in this notice
Community (previously listed as the Ak belonging to the Late Archaic/Early represent the physical remains of two
Chin Indian Community of the Agricultural horizon. Recent individuals of Native American
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, archeological investigations have added ancestry.
Arizona); Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; support to the hypothesis that the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila Hohokam cultural tradition arose from the one object described in this notice
River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi the earlier horizon, based on is reasonably believed to have been
Tribe of Arizona; Pascua Yaqui Tribe of continuities in settlement pattern, placed with or near individual human
Arizona; Quechan Tribe of the Fort architectural technologies, irrigation remains at the time of death or later as
Yuma Indian Reservation, California & technologies, subsistence patterns, and part of the death rite or ceremony.
Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa material culture. It has been difficult for • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
Indian Community of the Salt River archeologists to date the beginning of is a relationship of shared group
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham the Hohokam period because the identity that can be reasonably traced
Nation of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the appearance of its distinctive cultural between the Native American human
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, traits, including ceramic technologies remains and associated funerary objects
hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted and mortuary patterns, was a gradual and the Ak-Chin Indian Community
Tribes.’’ process spanning several hundred years. (previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian
This observation adds further support to Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
History and Description of the Remains the hypothesis that the Hohokam Indian Reservation, Arizona); Gila River
In 1981, human remains representing, tradition evolved in place from earlier Indian Community of the Gila River
at minimum, one individual were Late Archaic traditions. Linguistic Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
removed from site AZ EE:9:91(ASM), evidence furthermore suggests that the of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
located in Patagonia Lake State Park, Hohokam tradition was multiethnic in Indian Community of the Salt River
Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The human nature. Cultural continuity between Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
remains were collected during a survey these prehistoric occupants of Southern Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe
project directed by Kurt Dongoske and Arizona and present-day O’odham of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico,
a testing project conducted by the peoples is supported by continuities in hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes.’’
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Cultural Resource Management Division settlement pattern, architectural
of the ASM under the direction of John technologies, basketry, textiles, ceramic Additional Requestors and Disposition
Czaplicki. The human remains were technology, and ritual practices. Oral Lineal descendants or representatives
brought to ASM and an accession traditions that are documented for the of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
number was assigned in 1990. No Ak-Chin Indian Community (previously organization not identified in this notice
known individuals were identified. No listed as the Ak Chin Indian Community that wish to request transfer of control
associated funerary objects are present. of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian of these human remains and associated

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83 FR 52539 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Parks and Trails, Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 201 (October 17, 2018)

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