[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 193 (Thursday, October 3, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 51717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25352]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
From Hawaii in the Possession of the California Academy of Sciences, 
San Francisco, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 
3003 (d), of the completion of an inventory of human remains from 
Hawaii in the possession of the California Academy of Sciences, San 
Francisco, CA.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by California 
Academy of Sciences professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hui Malama I Na 
Kupuna 'O Hawaii Nei, and the Maui/Lanai Island Burial Council.
    On April 2, 1902, Stanford University faculty member, J. O. Snyder 
recovered a skull and mandible representing one individual from a sand 
beach burial on Lanai Beach, Lanai Island, Hawaii. Documentation from 
the time of the recovery states that the human remains were originally 
buried with its hands clasping its knees. The human remains were 
donated by Stanford University to the California Academy of Sciences 
about 1985. No known individuals were identified and no associated 
funerary objects accompanied these human remains. The geographic 
location of the human remains and method of burial preparation are 
typical of Native Hawaiian burials.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the 
California Academy of Sciences have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 
10.2 (d) (1), the human remains listed above represent the physical 
remains of one (1) individual of Native American ancestry. Officials of 
the California Academy of Sciences have also determined that, pursuant 
to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared group identity 
which can be reasonably traced between these Native Hawaiian human 
remains and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O 
Hawaii Nei, and the Maui/Lanai Island Burial.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Office of Hawaiian 
Affairs, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawaii Nei, and the Maui/Lanai 
Island Burial Council. Representatives of any other Native Hawaiian 
group or organization that believes itself to be culturally affiliated 
with these human remains should contact Russell P. Hartman, California 
Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, 
Telephone: 415/750-7162, e-mail: [[email protected]], before 
[thirty days from publication of this notice in the Federal Register]. 
Repatriation of the human remains to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 
Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawaii Nei, and/or the Maui/Lanai Island 
Burial Council may begin after that date if no additional claimants 
come forward.
Dated: September 30, 1996,
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting, Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Acting Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 96-25352 Filed 10-2-96; 8:45 am]
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