Notice2024-28491
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Kikuchi Center at Kaua`i Community College, Līhu`e, HI
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Published
December 5, 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`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 234 (Thursday, December 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 96672-96673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28491]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039155; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Kikuchi Center at Kaua`i
Community College, L[imacr]hu`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`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 January 6, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Jason Ford, The Kikuchi Center at Kaua`i Community College,
3-1901 Kaumuali`i Highway, L[imacr]hu`e, HI 96766, telephone (808) 245-
8236, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d8b2beb7aabce198b0b9afb9b1b1f6bdbcad"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bf1fdf4e9ffa2dbf3faecfaf2f2b5feffee">[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`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 one associated funerary object is one bone fish hook.
Item: Iwi Kupuna (ancestral remains) and associated funerary objects.
Site Name: ARCH 14-6, Kama`ole, Kula, Maui. Geographical Location:
Kama`ole, Kula, Maui. Collection History: The Kikuchi Center is an
archive curating the work of Dr. William Kikuchi. Dr. Kikuchi co-
founded the Archaeology Research Center of Hawai`i, ARCH, with Francis
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Ching, Jr. He inherited a collection of ARCH project materials,
including ARCH project 14-6. This project was an archaeological surface
survey for the Pi`ilani Highway at Kama`ole, Kula, Maui. ARCH 14-6
materials were excavated in 1976 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 bones presented in this notice as human. They
are associated with Native Hawaiian sites and cultural layers, and were
found in a cave. Modified bones and bone fragments too small to be
identified are also included in this notice due to their association
with positively identified iwi kupuna and location within the cave
site.
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.
Determinations
The Kikuchi Center at Kaua`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.
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is 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 Hui Iwi
Kuamo'o.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
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 January
6, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Kikuchi Center at Kaua`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`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 22, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-28491 Filed 12-4-24; 8:45 am]
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