[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64361-64362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30816]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects From the Island of Maui in the 
Possession of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI

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, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d), of 
the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects from the Island of Maui in the possession of the Bernice Pauahi 
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI.
    A detailed assessment and inventory of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects from the Island of Maui has been made by 
Bishop Museum's professional staff, in consultation with 
representatives of Hui Alanui o Makena, the Maui / Lana'i Island Burial 
Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, and 
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
    The human remains and associated funerary objects were found at 
various times and locations on the island of Maui. In 1916, Museum 
Anthropologist John F.G. Stokes and his wife collected the remains of 
four individuals, each with animals parts assumed to be associated 
funerary objects, from Pihana Heiau, Wailuku. In 1925, Annie M. 
Alexander donated partial remains of nine individuals from Pa'ia Beach. 
In 1928, Winslow M. Walker, Museum Assistant Ethnologist, recovered 
human remains and associated funerary objects during archaeological 
excavations and surveys in the Hononana Gulch caves (four partial 
remains and one broken gourd) and from an unnamed cave on Maui (three 
skulls, one set of crania fragments and one pipe). In 1957, Kenneth P. 
Emory, Museum Ethnologist, collected seven partial human remains, one 
animal mandible and one wood fragment from a cave in Pa'ia. In 1962, 
Robert J. Holt donated one skull from Waiehu. In 1965, Mr. and Mrs. 
Wescott donated one fragmentary mandible from Ku'au Beach, Pa'ia. In 
1966 and 1968, Museum excavations recovered twenty-six remains, three 
shell fragments, one rock, and one piece of charcoal at Waiehu, and 
Sprecklesville. In 1967, William McElwaine donated one fragmentary 
adult cranium from Pa'uwela. In 1968, a joint Bishop Museum, Mauna'olu 
College, and Maui Community College project excavated one incomplete 
infant skeleton with one anklet near Ku'au. In 1969, James H. Jackson, 
donated one cranium from Ho'okipa Park. In 1981, excavations at the 
site of Makena Surf Hotel, resulted in the recovery of two incomplete 
sets of remains. In 1982, Museum excavations recovered partial remains 
of two individuals and one unrelated tooth from Waiehu Heights. In 
1982, Audrey Reed donated one skull from Kahului. At an unknown date, 
the Museum received one humerus from Wailuku.
    No known individuals were identified. No attempt was made to 
determine the age of these human remains at the request of the above 
mentioned Native Hawaiian organizations. Geographic location of the 
remains, types of associated funerary objects, and method of burial 
preparation are typical of Native Hawaiians ancestral to contemporary 
Native Hawaiians.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Bernice 
Pauahi Bishop Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 
(d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical remains 
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66 individuals of Native American ancestry. Museum officials have also 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A) and (B) the 14 items 
listed above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the 
death rite or ceremony. Lastly, Bishop Museum officials have determined 
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared 
group identity which can be reasonably traced between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects and Hui Alanui o Makena, the Maui / 
Lana'i Island Burial Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 
'O Hawai'i Nei, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
    This notice has been sent to officials of Hui Alanui o Makena, Maui 
/ Lana'i Island Burial Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, the Office of 
Hawaiian Affairs, and Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei. 
Representatives of any other Native Hawaiian organization that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with these human remains and 
associated funerary objects should contact Janet Ness, Registrar, 
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817-0916 
telephone: (808) 848-4105, before January 3, 1997. Repatriation of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to Hui Alanui o Makena, 
Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, Maui / Lana'i Island Burial 
Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs will 
begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: November 22, 1996.
Richard C. Waldbauer,
Acting, Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Acting Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 96-30816 Filed 12-3-96; 8:45 am]
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