[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 221 (Monday, November 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68472-68473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-27150]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16828; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, 
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, have 
corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register on February 27, 2012. This notice corrects the minimum number 
of individuals and number of associated funerary objects. 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 human remains and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control 
of the human remains and 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 human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the address 
in this notice by December 17, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, Reston, VA 20191, telephone 
(703) 390-6343.

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

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funerary objects under the control of the U.S. Department of the 
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in the physical 
custody of the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 
(ASM). The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed 
from a location within the boundaries of the Fort Apache Indian 
Reservation, Navajo County, AZ.
    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 minimum number of individuals and number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (77 FR 11578-11580, February 27, 
2012). Re-inventory of the human remains resulted in a reduction in the 
minimum number of individuals represented because many fragmentary 
elements could be reassociated with individuals from the more intact 
burials. The number of associated funerary objects increased due a 
search through uncatalogued object collections.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 11579, February 27, 2012), paragraph 
7 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    In the years 1963 through 1977, human remains representing, at 
minimum, 1,021 individuals were removed from the Grasshopper Pueblo 
site AZ P:14:1(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ, as a result of legally 
authorized excavations conducted by the University of Arizona 
Archaeological Field School. Archaeological collections from the 
site were brought to the museum at the end of each field season. No 
known individuals were identified. The 8,858 associated funerary 
objects are 692 animal bones, 1 animal effigy pendant, 2 animal 
skeletons, 2 antler artifacts, 1 antler baton, 1 antler fragment, 1 
antler wrench, 17 lots of beads of unidentified material, 29 bird 
bones, 6 bird skeletons, 25 bone artifacts, 35 bone awls, 2 bone awl 
fragments, 1 bone bead, 4 bone hair ornaments, 2 bone hairpins, 2 
bone needles, 25 bone rings, 1 bone ring fragment, 1 bone spatula, 1 
bone tool, 1 bone wand, 13 lots of botanical material, 1 ceramic 
artifact, 650 ceramic bowls, 16 ceramic bowl fragments, 2 ceramic 
canteens, 1 ceramic figurine fragment, 204 ceramic jars, 8 ceramic 
jar fragments, 1 ceramic mug, 1 ceramic pendant, 8 ceramic pitchers, 
1 ceramic pitcher fragment, 2 ceramic plates, 1 ceramic platter, 4 
ceramic scoops, 3,736 ceramic sherds, 1 ceramic sherd artifact, 1 
ceramic sherd disk, 32 ceramic vessels, 1 ceramic vessel fragment, 1 
chipped stone core, 141 chipped stone flakes, 1,852 chipped stone 
fragments, 2 clay samples, 52 crystals, 1 decorated shell, 2 disks, 
1 drill, 25 flotation samples, 6 fossils, 3 ground stones, 2 
hammerstones, 1 handstone, 15 manos, 2 mano fragments, 5 lots of 
matting, 1 medicine bundle, 25 minerals, 3 mortars, 2 lots of 
organic material, 91 pebbles, 1 pecking stone, 4 pendants, 3 lots of 
plant fiber matting, 16 polishing stones, 164 pollen samples, 6 
quartz crystals, 16 lots of raw material, 7 shaft straighteners, 109 
shells, 6 shell artifacts, 1 shell artifact fragment, 26 lots of 
shell beads, 32 shell bracelets, 6 shell bracelet fragments, 3 shell 
fragments, 1 shell necklace, 22 shell pendants, 4 shell pendant 
fragments, 8 shell rings, 1 shell ring fragment, 51 shell tinklers, 
7 snail shells, 2 soil impressions, 29 soil samples, 3 stones, 13 
stone artifacts, 1 stone axe, 5 lots of stone beads, 6 stone cores, 
5 stone figurines, 3 stone knives, 14 stone pendants, 236 stone 
projectile points, 1 stone projectile point preform, 1 stone punch, 
2 stone scrapers, 11 stone slabs, 1 lot of string, 28 tree ring 
samples, 3 lots of turquoise beads, 57 turquoise pendants, 132 
turquoise tesserae, 16 unidentified artifacts, 3 lots of 
unidentified material, 1 lot of unidentified organic material, 3 
wood fragments, 2 worked animal bones, 2 worked ceramic sherds, 12 
worked chipped stone pieces, 1 worked shell, and 2 worked stone 
flakes.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, February 27, 2012), paragraph 
5 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C 3001(9), the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 1,021 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, February 27, 2012), paragraph 
6 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 8,858 objects described 
above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as a 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 human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390-6343, by December 
17, 2014. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the 
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may proceed.
    The Arizona State Museum is responsible for notifying the Hopi 
Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 29, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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