Notice2024-27510
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Kikuchi Center at Kaua'i Community College, Līhu'e, HI
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Published
November 25, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 227 (Monday, November 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 92972-92973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27510]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039105; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Kikuchi Center at
Kaua[revaps]i Community College, L[imacr]hu[revaps]e, HI
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 Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i
Community College has completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after December 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jason Ford, The Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community
College, 3-1901 Kaumuali[revaps]i Highway, L[imacr]hu[revaps]e, HI
96766, telephone (808) 245-8236, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6dcd0d9c4d28ff6ded7c1d7dfdf98d3d2c3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fa909c95889ec3ba929b8d9b9393d49f9e8f">[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
Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College, and additional
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results
of consultation, can be found in its inventory or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The five associated funerary objects are four bone
artifacts and one bone fish hook. Item: Iwi Kupuna (human remains),
including modified bone fragments, and associated funerary objects.
Site Name: 14-115 II Barber's Point, Kalaeloa, Honouliuli, [revaps]Ewa,
O[revaps]ahu Geographical Location: Kalaeloa, Honouliuli, [revaps]Ewa,
O[revaps]ahu. Collection History: The Kikuchi Center is an archive
curating the work of Dr. William Kikuchi. Dr. Kikuchi co-founded the
Archaeology Research Center of Hawaii, ARCH, with Francis Ching, Jr. He
inherited a collection of ARCH project materials, including ARCH
project 14-115 II. This project was an intensive survey and excavation
for the harbor expansion at Barber's Point for the State of
Hawai[revaps]i and the U.S. Army Corps. Barber's Point is Kalaeloa,
located in the ahupua[revaps]a Honouliuli, moku of [revaps]Ewa. These
materials were excavated in 1980 and the founding of the Kikuchi Center
and processing of these materials began in September 2022. In March of
2024, an osteologist analyzed the bones in the collection and
positively identified the modified humerus as human. These bones are
associated with Native Hawaiian sites and cultural layers. The 76
modified bones listed here are unidentifiable due to their size and
state of modification, but because they were associated with the
positively identified iwi kupuna, are being listed for consultation and
repatriation, and treated as human. Due to the possibility of the bone
artifacts also being human and their close association with the
positively identified bone, they are also listed as associated burial
objects. Some bones may be coated in a clear lacquer with individual
artifact numbers that are now dissociated from data.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice. Kalaeloa Heritage and Legacy
Foundation has offered their burial vault and to enact reinterment
protocols, if required, and defer consultation to include other Native
Hawaiian organizations.
Determinations
The Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
Modified bone and bone fragments in associated with positively
identified iwi kupuna are also being offered for repatriation.
<bullet> The five objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Kalaeloa
Heritage and Legacy Foundation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
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authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after December
26, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College 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. The Kikuchi
Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College 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 10.10.
Dated: November 18, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-27510 Filed 11-22-24; 8:45 am]
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