Notice2025-19957
Notice of Inventory Completion: Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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Published
November 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Heard Museum 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 90, Number 219 (Monday, November 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51394-51395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19957]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6561; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041185; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Heard Museum, Phoenix, 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 Heard Museum 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 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to David Roche,
Director/CEO, Heard Museum, 2301 N Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c9ada0bbacaabda6bb89a1aca8bbade7a6bbae"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4c28253e292f38233e0c24292d3e2862233e2b">[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
Heard Museum, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation,
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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 30 associated funerary objects are ceramic pottery
sherds including polychrome fragments, coiled fragments, black-on-white
fragments and bones from a large mammal.
Circumstances and date of acquisition unknown. 3288-3: A container
with charred bones and ceramic pottery sherds was located and
subsequently accessioned during a full collections inventory in 1991.
No information was located in the original Heard catalogue. Review in
1992 identified the minimum of one individual as well as bone from a
large mammal. Consultation in 2023 determined that further research on
pottery type was warranted. Examination of the pottery sherds resulted
in the discovery of the words ``Verde Valley'' labeled on some of the
sherds, providing a geographic location. Exposure to hazardous
substances is unlikely.
NA-SW-SG-K-2 and NA-SW-SG-A2-1: In 2018 human remains representing
at least one individual and 19 associated funerary objects from near
Camp Verde in Yavapai County, Arizona, were listed in a Notice of
Inventory Completion, published in the Federal Register on September
10, 2018 (83 FR 45674-45675). This notice includes one additional
associated funerary object, NA-SW-SG-A1-2, a bowl donated at the same
time and found near NA-SW-SG-A2-1 near Camp Verde, Yavapai County,
Arizona. Exposure to hazardous substances is unlikely.
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 Heard Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 31 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 Salt River
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona.
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 December
17, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Heard Museum 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 Heard Museum is responsible for sending a copy
of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice and any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: September 18, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-19957 Filed 11-14-25; 8:45 am]
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