[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67169-67170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25353]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item: Heard Museum, 
Phoenix, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act

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(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate a cultural item 
in the possession of the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, that meets the 
definition of ``cultural patrimony'' under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum that has control of the cultural item. The National Park Service 
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    The one cultural item is a Dilzini Gaan headdress made of painted 
wood and cloth.
    It is not known exactly when, where, or by whom the headdress was 
collected, or under what circumstances the Heard Museum acquired the 
headdress. The museum probably acquired the headdress before 1952, 
since the museum's collections were re[macr]cataloged after 1951, and 
the headdress appears to match a catalog description that was probably 
written between 1931 and 1947.
    Representatives of the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 
Reservation, New Mexico; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos 
Reservation, Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain 
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; and 
Yavapai[macr]Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, 
Arizona examined the museum's collections, consulted with museum staff, 
and identified the headdress as an object of cultural patrimony 
eligible for repatriation under NAGPRA. The White Mountain Apache Tribe 
demonstrated that the cultural item has ongoing traditional and 
cultural importance to the tribe and could not have been conveyed by 
any individual tribal member.
    Officials of the Heard Museum have determined that, pursuant to 25 
U.S.C. 3001 (3)(D), the cultural item has ongoing historical, 
traditional, or cultural importance central to the White Mountain 
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, rather than 
property owned by an individual. Officials of the Heard Museum also 
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a 
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced 
between the object of cultural patrimony and 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 the object of cultural patrimony should 
contact Frank Goodyear, Director, Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Avenue, 
Phoenix, AZ 85004, telephone (602) 252[macr]8840, before December 16, 
2004. Repatriation of the object of cultural patrimony to the White 
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona may 
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
    The Heard Museum is responsible for notifying the Apache Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, 
New Mexico; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New 
Mexico; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; 
Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort 
Apache Reservation, Arizona; and the Yavapai[macr]Apache Nation of the 
Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona that this notice has been 
published.

Mary Downs,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program
[FR Doc. 04-25353 Filed 11-15-04; 8:45 am]
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