[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 47 (Friday, March 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14209-14210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5946]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion for an Associated Funerary Object 
in the Possession of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park 
Service, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Mountainair, NM

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), 43 CFR 10.9, 
of the completion of the inventory of an associated funerary object in 
the possession of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park 
Service, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Mountainair, NM. 
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The 
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
National Park Service unit that has control or possession of this 
Native American associated funerary object. The Assistant Director, 
Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships, is not responsible for 
the determinations within this notice.
    A detailed assessment and inventory of the associated funerary 
object has been made by professional staff of the National Park 
Service, in consultation with representatives of the Pueblo of Acoma, 
New Mexico; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo 
of Jemez, New Mexico; Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New 
Mexico; Wichita Tribe of Oklahoma; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. Representatives of the 
Piro-Manso-Tiwa, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, were also 
present at one of the consultation meetings.
    According to a notice of inventory completion published in the 
Federal Register on August 29, 2000 (FR Doc. 00-21974) by the Museum of 
Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New 
Mexico, human remains representing 14 individuals were recovered in 
1941 from site LA 83 (Pueblo Pardo Ruin or Grey Town), Socorro County, 
NM. No known individuals were identified. The one associated funerary 
object was a single lot of corn kernels. The Museum of Indian Arts and 
Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico repatriated 
these Native American human remains and the associated funerary object 
to Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas following the required 30 day notice 
period.
    On August 16, 1941, a second associated funerary object, a glaze 
bowl originally recovered with the above-described 14 individuals, was 
transferred to the possession of Salinas Pueblo Missions National 
Monument. The site (LA 83) from which these human remains and 
associated funerary objects were recovered is located in Socorro County 
and, based on material culture and architectural features, has been 
dated to the Pueblo III and Pueblo IV period (A.D. 1300-1630).
    The Jumano culture is considered by anthropologists to be a blend 
of both

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Anasazi and Mogollon, shifting through time from Mogollon to Rio Grande 
Anasazi characteristics. Oral tradition evidence acquired from 
consultation meetings between National Park Service professional staff 
and the above-mentioned Indian tribes, as well as the archeological and 
ethnographic evidence, indicates that there is a cultural affiliation 
between the human remains and associated funerary objects removed from 
LA 83 and the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 
Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Taos, New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the 
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. In addition, the Piro-Manso-Tiwa, a non-
Federally recognized Indian group, are believed to be culturally 
affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects from 
LA 83.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, the Salinas Pueblo 
Missions National Monument superintendent determined that, pursuant to 
43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the object listed above 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. The Salinas 
Pueblo Missions National Monument superintendent also determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group 
identity that can be reasonably traced between this Native American 
associated funerary object and the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Hopi 
Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. In addition, the 
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument superintendent determined 
that a cultural affiliation exists between this associated funerary 
object and the Piro-Manso-Tiwa, a non-Federally recognized Indian 
group.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Pueblo of Acoma, New 
Mexico; Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of 
Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Kiowa Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New 
Mexico; White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona; the Wichita Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico; as well as to the Piro-Manso-Tiwa Indian 
group. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself 
to be culturally affiliated with this associated funerary object should 
contact Glenn M. Fulfer, Superintendent, Salinas Pueblo Missions 
National Monument, P.O. Box 517, Mountainair, NM 87036, telephone (505) 
847-2585, Extension 25, before April 9, 2001. Repatriation of the 
associated funerary object will begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: February 14, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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