[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 62 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16960-16961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7846]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item from the Kachemak 
Bay Region, AK in the Possession of the University of Alaska Museum, 
Fairbanks, AK

AGENCY: National Park Service.

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 from the Prince William Sound and Kachemak Bay Regions, 
AK in the possession of the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK 
which meets the definition of ``unassociated funerary object'' under 
Section 2 of the Act.
    The one cultural item consists of worked bone.
    In 1931, this cultural item was recovered near a burial on 
Cottonwood Creek, AK during excavations conducted by Frederica de 
Laguna of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In 1953, this cultural 
item was sent to the University of Alaska Museum from the University of 
Pennsylvania Museum as part of an exchange collection. The human 
remains recovered with this cultural item have previously been 
repatriated from the University of Pennsylvania.
    Based on material culture, the Cotton Wood Creek site has been 
identified as Kachemak Bay period (c. 1500 A.D.) Chugach occupations.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the 
University of Alaska Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 
10.2 (d)(2)(ii), this one 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 are believed, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific 
burial site of an Native American individual.

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Officials of the University of Alaska 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 this item 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 this object should contact Gary 
Selinger, Special Projects Manager, University of Alaska Museum, 907 
Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-1200; telephone: (907) 474-6117, fax: 
(907) 474-5469 before May 1, 2000. Repatriation of this object to the 
Chugach Alaska Corporation may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: March 23, 2000.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Manager, Archeology and 
Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 00-7846 Filed 3-29-00 8:45 am]
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