[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49856-49857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23893]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Inventory Completion of Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects from the Island of Kaua'i in the 
Collections of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d), of 
the completion of the inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects from the Island of Kaua'i by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop 
Museum Honolulu, HI.
    A detailed inventory and assessment of these human remains and 
associated funerary objects has been made by Bishop Museum's 
professional staff, and representatives of the following Native 
Hawaiian organizations: Kaua'i / Ni'ihau Island Burial Council, Hui 
Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 
Native Hawaiian organizations under 25 U.S.C. 3001(11) and individuals 
Mr. Edward Ka'iwi and Ms. Aletha Kaohi, of Kaua'i.
    The human remains represent at least 85 individuals and 32 
associated funerary objects. These remains came to Bishop Museum from 
the following sources:
    In 1900, J. K. Farley donated one skull from Koloa. In 1916, J. F. 
G. Stokes collected one calvarium from Maha'ulepu with a shell and four 
glass beads. In 1918, the Museum purchased one skull from Wailua from 
H. Schultz. In 1922, Herbert E. Gregory, Director, and Edwin H. Bryan, 
Curator of Collections, at Bishop Museum, with Kaua'i residents H. & R. 
von Holt, L. Thurston, and Lindsay Anton Faye, removed seventeen 
remains, one stone flake, twenty shells and two wood fragments from 
Kalalau, Nu'alolo Valleys. In 1922, Gerrit P. Wilder donated a skull 
from Kipu Kai. In 1926, C. J. Fern and W. W. Henderson donated one set 
of fragmentary remains from Hanalei. In 1927, H. E. Gregory collected 
one fragmentary set of skeletal remains from Kipu Kai. In 1928, Wendell 
C. Bennett and Kenneth P. Emory, Anthropologists at Bishop Museum, 
collected two sets of remains from sands dunes, Lihu'e district. In 
October 1928, W. C. Bennett shipped twelve remains, mostly skulls, from 
Waimea. In December 1928, Bishop Museum received four crania from 
Kealia, from W. C. Bennett. In 1929, W. C. Bennett removed fifteen sets 
of remains from Kipu Kai, Kaunalewa caves, and Nu'alolo. The remains 
from Nu'alolo were associated with 1 bead. In 1936, the Museum received 
one set of human remains from Ha'ena from an anonymous donor. In 1947, 
George Arnemann donated one skull from Kalihi Kai and one from 
Ka'aka'aniu. In 1948, Mrs. William Weinrich donated one skull from 
Kaua'i. In 1949, a group of students under K. P. Emory, excavated 
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rock and shell fragments from a bull-dozed site at Wailua. In 1951, the 
Museum recorded one set of human remains from Po'ipu from an anonymous 
donor. In 1956, Lawrence P. Richards donated one skull from Aweoweonui. 
In 1959, Adna Clarke, Jr., donated one set of human remains from 
Hanapepe. In 1964, Robert N. Bowen, Museum employee, collected a single 
vertebra at Koloa. In 1964, Frederic O. Wolf, donated one skull from 
Kaua'i. In 1965, Lloyd J. Soehren, Museum anthropologist, excavated one 
set of human remains and an animal bone fragment from Nu'alolo. In 
1974, John E. Reinecke donated the remains of four partial skeletons 
from Po'ipu. In 1984, Stella Hobby donated one skull from Kaua'i. In 
1989, Andrew J. Hingsberger donated one skull from Nu'alolo.
    No known individuals were identified. In consultation with Native 
Hawaiian organizations and at their recommendation, the Bishop Museum 
decided that no attempt would be made to determine the age of the human 
remains from Kaua'i. Geographic location of the remains, types of 
associated funerary objects, and method of burial preparation are 
recognizable as burial practices of Native Hawaiians ancestral to 
contemporary Native Hawaiian organizations.
    Based on the above information, officials of the Bishop Museum, in 
consultation with representatives of the Kaua'i / Ni'ihau Island Burial 
Council, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, the Office of Hawaiian 
Affairs, Edward Ka'iwi and Aletha Kaohi, have determined pursuant to 25 
U.S.C. 3001(2) that there is a relationship of shared group identity 
which can be reasonably traced between these remains and present-day 
Native Hawaiian organizations.
    This notice has been sent to the Kaua'i / Ni'ihau Island Burial 
Council, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, the Office of Hawaiian 
Affairs, Edward Ka'iwi and Aletha Kaohi. Representatives of any Native 
Hawaiian organization which believes itself to be culturally affiliated 
with these human remains and associated funerary objects should contact 
Anita Manning, NAGPRA Representative, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, P. 
O. Box 19000, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96817-0916, 
<[email protected]>, 808-848-4117, before October 27, 
1995.

    Dated: September 21, 1995.
Francis P. McManamon
Departmental Consulting Archeologist
Archeology and Ethnology Program
[FR Doc. 95-23893 Filed 9-26-95; 8:45 am]
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