[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 121 (Tuesday, June 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35784-35785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14755]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-15874; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature & 
Science, Denver, CO; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published 
in two Notices of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on July 
22, 2010 and September 14, 2010. This notice corrects the number of 
associated funerary objects for one site. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of 
these associated funerary objects should submit a written request to 
the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. If no additional requestors come 
forward, transfer of control of the associated funerary objects to the 
lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations 
stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
the Denver Museum of Nature & Science at the address in this notice by 
July 24, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Denver Museum of Nature & 
Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80205, telephone (303) 370-
6378, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Denver Museum of 
Nature & Science (DMNS). The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were removed from the Turner-Look Site near Cisco, Grand 
County, UT.
    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 and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects 
published in Notices of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(75 FR 42770-42771, July 22, 2010 and 75 FR 55823-55824, September 14, 
2010). Since the publication of notices, additional associated funerary 
objects were found to be in the possession of DMNS. Transfer of control 
of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (75 FR 42770-42771, July 22, 2010), 
paragraph 5, is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    In 1938, human remains representing a minimum of five 
individuals were excavated at the Turner-Look Site near Cisco, Grand 
County, UT, by Wormington. The human remains were removed during 
legal excavation on private land. The human remains were accessioned 
into the museum collection (A533.4A (CUI 28), A533.5C (CUI 29), 
A533.5B (CUI 30), A533.5A (CUI 31), and A533.6A (CUI 32)). Remains 
include one child, which was reportedly found with seven associated 
funerary objects, but only three were collected and in the museum's 
possession: one small circular slate plaque (A533.4B), one stone 
metate (A533.7A), and one lot of shell fragments (A533.36). The 
additional human remains are composed of one infant and three adult 
males, one with the following associated funerary objects: two lots 
of pottery sherds (A533.6B, A533.6C), one lot of lithics (A533.6D), 
and one animal

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bone fragment (A533.6D). When excavated these remains were defined 
within the then incipient culture type ``Fremont'' although this 
designation as it was then understood is ambiguous in today's 
archeological lexicon. No known individuals were identified.

    In the Federal Register (75 FR 55823-55824, September 14, 2010), 
paragraph 7, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Officials of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science also have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 20 objects 
described above are 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.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
Dr. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 
Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80205, telephone (303) 370-6378, email 
[email protected], by July 24, 2014. After that date, if no additional 
requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the associated 
funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico, may proceed.
    The DMNS is responsible for notifying the Ak Chin Indian Community 
of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Fort Mojave 
Indian Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation, 
Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kewa 
Pueblo, New Mexico (previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo Domingo); 
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Navajo 
Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 
(previously listed as the Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; 
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; 
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Shoshone-Bannock 
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck 
Valley Reservation, Nevada; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern 
Ute Reservation, Colorado; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Ute Indian 
Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe of 
the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; White 
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-
Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-
Prescott Indian Tribe (previously listed as the YUavapai-Prescott Tribe 
of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona; Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas; 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico; and the Southern Paiute 
Consortium, a non-federally recognized Indian group, that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: May 22, 2014.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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