Notice2023-15099
Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA
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Published
July 18, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed from San Juan County, Utah.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 45914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15099]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036182; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History, Santa Barbara, CA
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 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human
remains were removed from San Juan County, Utah.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after August 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Luke Swetland, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105,
telephone (805) 682-4711, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9bf7e8ecfeeff7faf5ffdbe8f9f5faefeee9fea9b5f4e9fc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3b57484c5e4f575a555f7b4859555a4f4e495e091554495c">[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 the
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. 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 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were
removed from San Juan County, Utah. In 1970, these human remains were
removed by Waldo George Abbott from a road construction site (likely
Highway 95). That same year, Abbott donated them to the Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History, where he was Curator of Ornithology and
Mammalogy. The human remains consist of the nearly complete skeleton of
an adult male, and the skeletal remains of two infants. The remains of
these individuals likely date to the Pueblo I Period (750-900 CE), No
associated funerary objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains 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: Geographical, kinship,
biological, archeological, linguistic, folkloric, oral traditional,
historical, and other information or expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, &
Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Tesuque, New Mexico; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Ute
Mountain Ute Tribe; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after August 17, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes 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: July 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-15099 Filed 7-17-23; 8:45 am]
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