Notice2023-18132
Notice of Inventory Completion: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
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Published
August 23, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (previously the Fine Arts Center Taylor Museum and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from an unknown geographic location.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57474-57475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18132]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036432; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
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 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at
Colorado College (previously the Fine Arts Center Taylor Museum and the
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) has completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated
funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from an unknown geographic location.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after September 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Michael Christiano, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at
Colorado College, 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903,
telephone (719) 477-4311, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4429272c362d37302d252a2b04272b282b3625202b272b28282123216a212031"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e78a848f958e94938e868988a784888b889586838884888b8b828082c9828392">[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
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. 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 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.
Description
On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from an unknown geographic location. Sometime
prior to January 1929, the human remains were acquired by Dr. Richard
Warren Corwin (1852-1929). Corwin was a world traveler who made
numerous trips to various locales across Europe, Asia, Africa, and
Oceania. Corwin's nephew, Dr. William Senger, inherited Corwin's
collections and donated them to Colorado College in 1940 and 1943. In
1987, Colorado College closed the Palmer Hall Museum, and the
collection was loaned to several museums, including the Fine Arts
Center Taylor Museum. Subsequently, the human remains became part of
the collection of the Fine Arts Center Taylor Museum and in 2016, the
Fine Arts Center Taylor Museum merged with Colorado College. The human
remains (Colorado College catalog number 11 and 249)--two teeth--belong
to a child. Additional teeth belonging to this individual (Colorado
College catalog number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 235, 236, 240, 242, 243,
and 252) are currently missing from the museum's collections, but upon
being located, they will be transferred together with the human remains
listed in this notice. No associated funerary objects are present.
On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from an unknown geographic location. On April
5, 2022, an envelope marked ``July 2019 Tooth and Bone Fragments'' was
discovered. The human remains (FIC 2022.77)--a tooth--belong to an
adult. The two associated funerary objects are the femur fragment of a
small adult mammal (176; FIC 2022.75) and a mammalian skeletal fragment
(FIC 2022.76).
Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.16, the Secretary of the Interior may make a
recommendation for a transfer of control of the culturally
unidentifiable human remains and associated funerary objects. In June
of 2023, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
requested that the Review Committee consider a proposal to transfer
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this
notice to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe
of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado. The Review Committee, acting
pursuant to its responsibility under 25 U.S.C. 3006(c)(5), considered
the request at its June 2023 meeting, and it recommended to the
Secretary that the proposed transfer of control proceed. A July 2023
letter on behalf of the Secretary of Interior from the Designated
Federal Official transmitted the Secretary's independent review and
concurrence with the Review Committee that:
<bullet> The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
consulted with every appropriate Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization,
<bullet> None of the consulted and notified Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations objected to the proposed transfer of
control, and
<bullet> The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
may proceed with the agreed upon transfer of control of the culturally
unidentifiable human remains and associated funerary objects to the
Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern
Ute Reservation, Colorado.
Transfer of control is contingent on the publication of a Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register. This notice fulfills that
requirement.
Determinations
Officials of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado
College have determined that:
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice are Native American based on biological evidence and
museum history.
<bullet> 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.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the two objects
described in this notice 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.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American
human remains and associated funerary objects and any present-day
Indian Tribe.
<bullet> Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.10(g)(2) and 10.16, the disposition
of the human remains and associated funerary objects may be to the Hopi
Tribe of Arizona and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
Reservation, Colorado.
Request for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or non-Federally recognized
Indian groups 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
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Native Hawaiian organization, or who shows that the requestor is an
aboriginal land Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after September
22, 2023. If competing requests for disposition are received, Colorado
Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. Colorado
Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College 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
and 10.11.
Dated: August 16, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18132 Filed 8-22-23; 8:45 am]
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