[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 8 (Friday, January 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1505-1506]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-736]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the Possession 
of the Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3005(1) (2), of the intent to 
repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Milwaukee Public 
Museum that meet the definition of ``cultural patrimony'' under Section 
2 of the Act.
    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 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of these 
cultural items. The National Park Service is not

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responsible for the determinations within this notice.
    The cultural items are a set of five Dilzini Gaan masks and a 
medicine staff. The cultural items were collected by Otto Schoenberg in 
April 1903 and were purchased by the Milwaukee Public Museum in January 
1904. Correspondence accompanying the purchase specifically describes 
the use of these cultural items in ceremonies performed at Fort Apache, 
AZ, in 1903.
    Authorized representatives of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of 
the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, have identified these cultural 
items as having ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural 
importance central to the White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort 
Apache Reservation, Arizona, and as communal property of the people of 
the White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 
Arizona, which could not have been legally alienated, appropriated, or 
conveyed by any individual.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the White Mountain Apache 
Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona. Representatives of any 
other Indian Tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated 
with this object should contact Alex W. Barker, Ph.D., Curator of North 
American Archaeology and Section Head, Anthropology, Milwaukee Public 
Museum, 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee WI 53233, telephone (414) 278-
2786, facsimile (414) 278-6100, before February 11, 2002. Repatriation 
of these items of cultural patrimony to the White Mountain Apache Tribe 
of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, can begin after that date if 
no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: December 13, 2001.
Robert Stearns,
Program Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 02-736 Filed 1-10-02; 8:45 am]
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