Notice2023-18141
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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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 Arizona State Museum (ASM), University of Arizona, intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Santa Barbara County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57466-57467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18141]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036443; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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), University
of Arizona, intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice. The cultural items were removed from Santa Barbara County,
CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after September 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Cristin Lucas, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State
Museum, 1013 E University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0026, telephone
(520) 626-0320, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ed81988e8c9e8ead8c9f849782838cc3888998"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e4889187859787a485968d9e8b8a85ca818091">[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
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 summary or related records held by the ASM.
Description
On an unknown date in 1925, 70 cultural items were removed from
LOMPOC:1:2(GP) in Santa Barbara County, CA. The cultural items were
collected by Frank McCoy, owner of the Santa Maria Inn, and were said
to have come from a burial. Catalog records indicate that archeologist
Harold S. Gladwin acquired the items from McCoy in 1925. Gladwin was a
resident of Santa Barbara before founding the Gila Pueblo Archaeology
Foundation in Globe, AZ, in the late 1920s. Gladwin lived at the
Foundation off and on throughout its active years until he dissolved
the institution in the late-1940s. In 1951, most of the Foundation's
collections, including the 70 cultural items listed here, were
transferred to ASM. The 70 unassociated funerary objects are one
projectile point, one biface, 66 ground stone ornaments, one shell
ring, and one shark tooth.
On an unknown date prior to 1936, one cultural item was removed
from an unknown site north of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA.
The cultural item was collected by Carl Miller and is noted to have
been recovered from ``Burial 24.'' In 1936, the item was donated to ASM
by Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore Hodges in 1936, who presumably had received it
from Miller. The one unassociated funerary object is a shell necklace.
In the mid-1920s, three cultural items were removed from a site
designated as Santa Barbara:13(GP), a site recorded by the Gila Pueblo
Archaeological Foundation. The original documentation of the site
recorded its name as ``Amolomal'' and ``Burton Mound,'' and described
its location as being ``at the foot of Chapala St., on the site once
occupied by the Potter Hotel.'' Harrington (1928) lists Syujtun (also
Syuxtun [Gamble 2008]) as the indigenous name for the Burton Mound
site, while Rogers (1929) describes Siuhtun, Burton Mound, and Amolomol
as separate sites. Recent publications (Gamble 2008; McDaniel Wilcox
2013) use the site number CA-SBA-28 for the mound and recognize it as
having been the location of Syuxtun. The original catalog card for
these items is undated, but the early catalog number suggests that they
were likely collected in the mid-1920s by archeologist Harold S.
Gladwin, who founded the Gila Pueblo Archaeology Foundation. In 1951,
most of the Foundation's collections, including the three items listed
here, were transferred to ASM. The three unassociated funerary objects
are one fossil, one crystal, and one shell, all unmodified.
In 1926, one cultural item was removed from a site designated as
Santa Barbara:4(GP), a site recorded by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological
Foundation. The catalog card describes the site as a village located on
Higgins Ranch, southeast of Carpinteria and adjoining the Carpinteria
tar-pit, between the Coast Highway and the beach. The item was
collected in 1926 by archeologist Harold S. Gladwin, who founded the
Gila Pueblo Archaeology Foundation. In 1951, most of the Foundation's
collections, including the one item listed here, were transferred to
ASM. The one unassociated funerary object is a bifacial tool.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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, geographical, and historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the ASM has determined that:
<bullet> The 75 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Santa Ynez Band
of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after September 22, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the ASM must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The ASM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
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Dated: August 16, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18141 Filed 8-22-23; 8:45 am]
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