Notice2022-25572
Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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Published
November 23, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Arizona State Museum (ASM) has completed an inventory of human remains and an associated funerary object and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary object were removed from Pima County, Arizona.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71669-71670]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25572]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034906; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Arizona State Museum (ASM) has completed
an inventory of human
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remains and an associated funerary object and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated
funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice. The human remains and associated funerary object were
removed from Pima County, Arizona.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after December 23, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Cristin Lucas, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210026, Tucson, AZ 85721-0026,
telephone (520) 626-0320, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#600c1503011303200112091a0f0e014e050415"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b0dcc5d3d1c3d3f0d1c2d9cadfded19ed5d4c5">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of ASM.
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records held by the ASM.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from site AZ BB:14:1(ASM) in Pima County, AZ. The site was first
recorded in 1925 by an archeology field class under the direction of
Byron Cummings with the University of Arizona (UA). Permitted
excavation was subsequently conducted in 1927 by Edward John Hands
under the direction of the UA. Collections from these field seasons
were brought to ASM following fieldwork; no accession number was
assigned. In 1941, ASM loaned to the Harvard Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology (Peabody) a ceramic cremation vessel
containing cremated human remains that had been removed from site AZ
BB:14:1(ASM). The human remains and vessel remained at the Peabody
until 2021 when they were recalled by ASM. No known individual was
identified. The one associated funerary object is a ceramic cremation
vessel.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary object in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples,
or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity between
the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one
or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following
types of information were used to reasonably trace the relationship:
anthropological, archeological, biological, geographical, historical,
linguistic, and oral traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, ASM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
object described in this notice and the Ak-Chin Indian Community
(previously listed as 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.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after December 23, 2022.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the ASM must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. ASM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: November 16, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-25572 Filed 11-22-22; 8:45 am]
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