[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53774-53775]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21488]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16418; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Museum, in consultation with the appropriate
Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the
cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of
any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this
notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written
request to the Arizona State Museum. If no additional claimants come
forward, transfer of control of the cultural items 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
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to the Arizona State Museum at the
address in this notice by October 10, 2014.
ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026,
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721,
telephone (520) 626-2950.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the
control of Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects 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, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
In 1949, four cultural items were removed from San Agust[igrave]n
de Tucson, AZ BB:13:6(ASM), in Tucson, Pima County, AZ. The legally
authorized excavations were conducted by the University of Arizona
under the direction of Terah L Smiley. At the end of excavations, the
archeological collections were brought the Arizona State Museum (ASM)
and assigned accession numbers. The four unassociated funerary objects
are four lots of glass beads.
Site AZ BB:13:6(ASM) is a multicomponent habitation and
agricultural site. In the 1690s, Father Eusebio Kino traveled through
southern Arizona and reported the presence of a Piman village on the
west bank of the Santa Cruz River near Sentinel Peak. He named this
village San Cosme de Tucson after Chuk-son, the Piman name for the
village. By the early years of the 18th century, a visita was
established at San Cosme as an extension of the mission of San Xavier
Del Bac, located a few miles to the south. Priests from San Xavier
would come to the visita occasionally to conduct baptisms and other
rites for the village inhabitants. Beginning in the early 1770's
construction began on more permanent facilities. The mission complex,
renamed San Agust[igrave]n, eventually included a chapel, a two-story
convent building, an orchard, a granary, and a cemetery for the Native
American population. The mission was in use until the middle of the
19th century. Historical records indicate that Sections A and B of the
cemetery were used for the internment of baptized Native Americans who
were the inhabitants of the O'odham village. The O'odham people today
are comprised of the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona, Gila River Indian Community of the Gila
River Indian Reservation, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of
the Salt River Reservation, Arizona, and Tohono O'odham Nation of
Arizona.
Determinations Made by the Arizona State Museum
Officials of the ASM have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 4 cultural items
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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native
American individual.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and the Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation; Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim
these cultural items should submit a written request with information
in support of the claim to John McClelland, NAGPRA Coordinator, P.O.
Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721, telephone (520) 626-2950, by October 10, 2014. After that date,
if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of
the unassociated funerary objects to the Ak Chin Indian Community of
the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation; Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona may proceed.
The Arizona State Museum is responsible for notifying the Ak Chin
Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona;
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation,
Arizona; and Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona that this notice has been
published.
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Dated: August 1, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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