[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 200 (Monday, October 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56222-56223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27128]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items from the Prince 
William Sound Region, AK in the Possession of the University of 
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
cultural items from the Prince William Sound Region, AK in the 
possession of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA which meet the definition 
of ``unassociated funerary object'' under Section 2 of the Act.

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    The five cultural items are glass beads, a slate blade, one slate 
awl, a boulder chip, and one whetstone.
    In 1933, these cultural items were recovered from a large burial 
cave at site 16, Tauxtvik, Hawkins Island, AK during excavations 
conducted under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum 
by Dr. Frederica de Laguna.
    The one cultural item consists of two strands of blue beads.
    In 1933, this cultural item was recovered with a burial from a rock 
shelter, site 43, Glacier Island, AK during excavations conducted under 
the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum by Dr. Frederica 
de Laguna. The human remains recovered with this cultural item have 
previously been repatriated from the Danish National Museum.
    Based on material culture, the sites listed above have been 
identified as historic period occupations (post-1780 AD).
    The one cultural item is a dugout canoe.
    In 1933, this cultural item was recovered at site 44 on an island 
in Long Bay near the Columbia Glacier, AK during excavations conducted 
under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum by Dr. 
Frederica de Laguna.
    Based on material culture, site 44 has been determined to date to 
the Prehistoric Phases, Palugvik 3 and 4 (c. 750-1500 AD). Palu:tat 
Cave is known to have been an important burial cave within the 
territory of one of eight traditional tribes of the Chugach, the 
Kiniklik. Oral tradition and material culture suggest that Palu:tat 
Cave is ancestral to present-day Native Chugach people.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the 
University of Pennsylvania Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 
CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), these seven cultural items 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 and are 
believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from 
a specific burial site of a Native American individual. Officials of 
the University of Pennsylvania Museum have also determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group 
identity which can be reasonably traced between these items and the 
Chugach Alaska Corporation.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Chugach Alaska 
Corporation. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with these objects should contact 
Dr. Jeremy Sabloff, the Williams Director, University of Pennsylvania 
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 33rd and Spruce Streets, 
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324; telephone: (215) 898-4051, fax (215) 898-
0657, before November 17, 1999. Repatriation of these objects to the 
Chugach Alaska Corporation may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.
Dated: October 1, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Manager, Archeology and 
Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-27128 Filed 10-15-99; 8:45 am]
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