[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52541-52542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22594]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026509; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University 
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona has corrected 
an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on September 10, 2014. This notice corrects the 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 
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. 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 Arizona State Museum, University of 
Arizona at the address in this notice by November 16, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, 
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 
telephone (520) 626-0320, 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 Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Site AZ AA:12:46(ASM), 
Pima 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 number of associated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(79 FR 53754-53759, September 10, 2014). The number of associated 
funerary objects increased due to a search through uncatalogued object 
collections. Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice 
has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53755, September 10, 2014), column 
2, paragraph 2, sentence 7 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 4,189 associated funerary objects are 38 animal bones, one 
lot of beads (unknown material), four bone artifacts, three bone 
awls, 40 bone awl fragments, two bone whistles, 35 lots of botanical 
material, 24 ceramic bowls, 36 ceramic bowl fragments, two ceramic 
disks, 13 ceramic jars, 34 ceramic jar fragments, one ceramic ladle, 
16 ceramic pitchers, two ceramic scoops, 3,488 ceramic sherds, one 
ceramic sherd artifact, one ceramic vessel, eight lots of charcoal, 
88 chipped stones, one piece of chipped stone debris, three chipped 
stone flakes, one chipped stone knife, one chipped stone scraper, 
one chipped stone tool, four clay fragments, one crystal, one daub 
fragment, three ground stones, three ground stone axes, two hand 
stones, two metallic cylinders, 13 mineral fragments, one lot of 
organic material, two pebbles, two lots of plant fiber matting, four 
pollen samples, three shells, 19 lots of shell and stone beads, 18 
shell artifacts, 23 shell artifact fragments, 49 lots of shell 
beads, four shell bracelets, nine shell bracelet fragments, 33 lots 
of shell fragments, one shell fossil, five shell pendants, one shell 
pendant fragment, two soil samples, seven stones, two stone balls, 
three lots of stone beads, three stone cylinders, one stone disk, 
one stone pendant, 83 stone projectile points, two stone projectile 
point fragments, four lots of textile cord, seven lots of textile 
fragments, one turquoise tessera, and 26 wood fragments.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 53759, September 10, 2014), column 
1, paragraph 1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 9,676 objects described in 
this notice 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 human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Claire S. Barker, Repatriation Coordinator, 
P.O. Box 210026, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, 
AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626-0320, email [email protected], 
by November 16, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Ak-Chin Indian Community (previously listed as 
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian 
Reservation, Arizona); Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; 
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico may proceed.
    The Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona is responsible for 
notifying the Ak-Chin Indian Community (previously listed as the Ak 
Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 
Arizona); Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham 
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico that this notice has been published.


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    Dated: September 14, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2018-22594 Filed 10-16-18; 8:45 am]
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