[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 75 (Thursday, April 17, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20943-20944]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-8294]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: Oregon State University, 
Department of Anthropology, Corvallis, OR

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 (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 
completion of an inventory of human remains in the control of Oregon 
State University, Department of Anthropology, Corvallis, OR. The human 
remains were removed from an unknown location in Hawaii.
    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, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Oregon State 
University, Department of Anthropology professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
    On an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of three 
individuals were removed from an unknown location in Hawaii. The human 
remains were donated to the Department of Anthropology by Dr. T. 
Tillman of the Oregon State University Physical Education Department 
upon his retirement (H0001-086-001, H0001-077-001, and H0001-081-0001). 
Dr. Tillman received the skulls from the widow of an unknown collector 
between 1940 and 1978. No known individuals were identified. No 
associated funerary objects are present.
    The collection records state that all three individuals are 
``Indian.'' The Department of Anthropology's physical anthropology 
faculty confirms that all three skulls have cranial morphology 
consistent with Native Hawaiian ancestry. According to collection 
records and consultation, the human remains were removed from locations 
in the traditional and current territory of Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Consultation with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs 
supports the origins of these three individuals from the Hawaiian 
Islands.
    Officials of the Oregon State University, Department of 
Anthropology have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9-10), 
the human remains described above represent the physical remains of 
three individuals of Native Hawaiian ancestry. Officials of the Oregon 
State University, Department of Anthropology 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 Native Hawaiian 
human remains and the Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei and Office 
of Hawaiian Affairs.
    Representatives of any other Native Hawaiian Organization that 
believes itself to be culturally affiliated with the human remains 
should contact Dr.

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David McMurray, Oregon State University Department of Anthropology, 238 
Waldo Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, telephone (541) 737-4515, before May 
19, 2008. Repatriation of the human remains to the Office of Hawaiian 
Affairs may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.
    Oregon State University, Department of Anthropology is responsible 
for notifying the Hawaii Island Burial Council; Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 
O Hawai'i Nei; Kauai/Niihau Island Burial Council; Maui/Lanai Island 
Burial Council; Molokai Island Burial Council; O'ahu Burial Committee, 
and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that this notice has been published.

    Dated: March 18, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-8294 Filed 4-16-08; 8:45 am]
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