[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 68373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31568]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Possession 
of the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, San Angelo, TX

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 
a cultural item in the possession of the Fort Concho National Historic 
Landmark, San Angelo, TX which meets the definition of ``unassociated 
funerary object'' under Section 2 of the Act.
    The cultural item is a large Jordano brown ceramic pot with a kill 
hole at the bottom.
    In 1952, this item was donated to the Fort Concho National Historic 
Landmark by Hollen Mayes. Museum documentation indicates it was removed 
from a burial in the Diablo Mountains near Van Horn, Culberson County, 
TX. While the external finish and interior have been greatly altered 
due to conservation attempts, the form and style of this item is 
consistent with known Tigua ceramics. Oral history presented by 
representatives of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas indicates this 
cultural item was originally in the possession of a Tigua (Ysleta del 
Sur Pueblo) tribal member who as killed near Van Horn, TX.
    Officials of the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark have 
determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), this cultural item 
is 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 is believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to 
have been removed from a specific burial site of an Native American 
individual. Officials of the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark 
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 this item and Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas.
    This notice has been sent to officials of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of 
Texas. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself 
to be culturally affiliated with this object should contact Kathleen S. 
Roland, Curator of Collections, Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, 
630 S. Oakes St., San Angelo, TX 76903; telephone: (915) 657-4440 
before January 6, 2000. Repatriation of this object to Yselta del Sur 
Pueblo may begin after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.
Dated: November 30, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-31568 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]
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