Notice2022-08122
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts, Puyallup, WA [Formerly the Karshner Museum] and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC
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Published
April 15, 2022
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
The Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts (Karshner Center) and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of sacred objects, objects of cultural patrimony, or unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to the Karshner Center. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22574-22575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08122]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033705; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Karshner Museum
and Center for Culture & Arts, Puyallup, WA [Formerly the Karshner
Museum] and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Washington, DC
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts (Karshner
Center) and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations, have determined that the cultural items
listed in this notice meet the definition of sacred objects, objects of
cultural patrimony, or unassociated funerary objects. Lineal
descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these
cultural items should submit a written request to the Karshner Center.
If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the
cultural items 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
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to the Karshner Center at the
address in this notice by May 16, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen S. Higgins, Karshner Museum and
Center for Culture & Arts, 309 4th Street NE, Puyallup, WA 98372,
telephone (253) 841-8748, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#345c5d53535d5a475f477444414d55585841441a5f05061a43551a4147"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1971707e7e70776a726a59696c607875756c693772282b376e78376c6a">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 cultural items under the
control of the Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts, Puyallup,
WA, and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Washington, DC, that meet the definition of sacred objects, objects of
cultural patrimony, or 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 Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
In or before 1930, 19 sacred objects were separated from the
Coastal Salish people. The items are one spirit stick in the shape of a
spear, one cedar bark dress, one cedar bark headdress, one glass bottle
containing red ochre mixed with fat, one shirt, 13 bone wedges [one of
which is currently missing], and one stone pipe. Dr. Warner M. Karshner
acquired the spirit stick (1930.01.1-233) from an unidentified
individual in La Connor, WA, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit
County, and in
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1930, he donated it to the Karshner Museum, which he had founded that
year. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mrs. Joe Billy (nee Louise
Cassimer) gifted the cedar bark dress (1935.01.1-47) to Charles L.
Judd. In 1935, Mr. Judd sold the dress to Dr. Karshner, who in turn
donated it to the Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mr.
Judd acquired the headdress (1935.01.1-149) from the Coastal Salish
First Nations Community of Saanich on Vancouver Island, British
Columbia. Subsequently--most likely in 1935--Mr. Judd sold the cedar
bark headdress to Dr. Karshner. In 1935, Dr. Karshner donated the cedar
bark headdress to the Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930,
Mr. Judd acquired a glass bottle containing red ochre mixed with fat
(1935.01.1-228) from an unidentified individual in La Connor,
Washington, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County. In 1935, Mr.
Judd sold the glass bottle to Dr. Karshner, who in turn donated it to
the Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mr. Judd acquired
the shirt (1935.01.1-231) from an unidentified individual in La Connor,
Washington, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County. In 1935, Mr.
Judd sold the shirt to Dr. Karshner, who in turn donated it to the
Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mr. Judd acquired four
bone wedges (1935.01.1-414) from an ``archaeological dig'' at
Weaverling Spit on Fidalgo Island, San Juan Islands, Skagit County. In
1935, Mr. Judd sold the bone wedges to Dr. Karshner, who in turn
donated them to the Karshner Museum. In or before 1935, Dr. Karshner
obtained a stone pipe bowl from San Juan Island, Skagit County
(1935.01.1-492). In 1935, he donated the pipe bowl to the Karshner
Museum. In 1935, Dr. Karshner acquired nine bone wedges (1935.01.1-493)
from San Juan Island, Skagit County, WA, and donated them to the
Karshner Museum.
The 19 cultural items described above are used by the Coastal
Salish people of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community [previously
listed as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of Washington]
in Siown ceremonies.
In or before 1935, one object of cultural patrimony was separated
from the Coastal Salish people. The item is a wild goat hair blanket
(1935.01.1-237). Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Charles L. Judd
acquired the blanket from an unidentified individual in La Connor,
Washington, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County. In 1935, Mr.
Judd sold the blanket to Dr. Karshner, who in turn donated it to the
Karshner Museum.
In or before 1936, four unassociated funerary objects were removed
from a grave on the Swinomish Reservation located in Skagit County, WA.
The items are four worked stones (1936.01.1-214). In 1936, Dr. and Mrs.
Karshner donated them to the Karshner Museum.
Determinations Made by the Karshner Museum and Center for Culture &
Arts and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Officials of the Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts and
the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs have
determined that:
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), the 19 cultural items
described above are specific ceremonial objects needed by traditional
Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional
Native American religions by their present-day adherents.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the one cultural item
described above has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural
importance central to the Native American group or culture itself,
rather than property owned by an individual.
<bullet> 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.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
cultural items and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community [previously
listed as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of
Washington].
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
these cultural items should submit a written request with information
in support of the claim to Karen S. Higgins, Karshner Museum and Center
for Culture & Arts, 309 4th Street NE, Puyallup, WA 98372, telephone
(253) 841-8748, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e48c8d83838d8a978f97a494919d8588889194ca8fd5d6ca9385ca9197"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ce4e5ebebe5e2ffe7ffccfcf9f5ede0e0f9fca2e7bdbea2fbeda2f9ff">[email protected]</span></a>, by May 16, 2022.
After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer
of control of the sacred objects, object of cultural patrimony, and
unassociated funerary objects to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
[previously listed as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of
Washington] may proceed.
The Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts and the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs are responsible
for notifying the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community [previously listed
as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of Washington] that
this notice has been published.
Dated: April 7, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-08122 Filed 4-14-22; 8:45 am]
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