Notice2023-28918
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items Amendment: Animas Museum/La Plata County Historical Society, Durango, CO
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Published
January 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Animas Museum/La Plata County Historical Society has amended a Notice of Intent to Repatriate published in the Federal Register on April 4, 2018. This notice amends the number of cultural items in a collection removed from San Juan County, NM.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 405-406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28918]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037163; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items Amendment: Animas
Museum/La Plata County Historical Society, Durango, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Animas Museum/La Plata County Historical
Society has amended a Notice of Intent to Repatriate published in the
Federal Register on April 4, 2018. This notice amends the number of
cultural items in a collection removed from San Juan County, NM.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after February 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Susan Jones, Museum, Collections Manager, Animas Museum/La
Plata County Historical Society, 3065 W 2nd Avenue, Durango, CO 81301,
telephone (970) 259-2402, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8ffcfafceee1e5e0e1eafccfeee1e6e2eefce2fafceafae2a1e0fde8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aad9dfd9cbc4c0c5c4cfd9eacbc4c3c7cbd9c7dfd9cfdfc784c5d8cd">[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
Animas Museum. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the amendments
and determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the summary or related records held by
the Animas Museum.
Amendment
This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of
Intent to Repatriate in the Federal Register (83 FR 14497-14498, April
4, 2018). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Intent to
Repatriate has not occurred. During further analysis of the artifacts
in the Museum's collection, documentation was found concerning one bowl
excavated by George F. Stewart from 31 archeological sites within
Dolores, La Plata, and Montezuma Counties in Colorado and San Juan and
Rio Arriba Counties in New Mexico was found not to have been associated
with a burial. This notice amends the number of unassociated funerary
objects as listed in the original notice as follows:
Between 1951 and 1971, 116 unassociated funerary objects
(previously identified as 117 unassociated funerary objects) were
removed from 31 archeological sites within Dolores, La Plata, and
Montezuma Counties in Colorado and San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties in
New Mexico. They were excavated by George F. Stewart, an amateur
archeologist and private collector from La Plata County, CO, who
donated most of his collection to the La Plata County Historical
Society in 1978. These unassociated funerary objects are all from
Ancestral Puebloan sites dating from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500) to
the Pueblo III (A.D. 1300) periods. The 116 unassociated funerary
objects include 106 ceramic objects (53 bowls, 16 jars, 13 pitchers,
seven seed jars, six ladles, five ollas, four pipes, and two dippers),
two stone pendants, one stone pipe, one flake, one concretion, one
sandstone bowl, one bone awl, one bone bead, and two unidentifiable
objects.
Determinations (as Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Animas Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The 118 cultural items 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 in this
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notice and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo
Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
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 February 2, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Animas Museum 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 Animas Museum 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 10.8, 10.10,
10.13, and 10.14.
Dated: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-28918 Filed 1-2-24; 8:45 am]
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