[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 27 (Friday, February 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2924-2925]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01625]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027161; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Pueblo Grande Museum, Phoenix, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Pueblo Grande Museum has completed an inventory of human 
remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations. 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 Pueblo Grande Museum. 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 Pueblo Grande Museum at the address in 
this notice by March 11, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Lindsey Vogel-Teeter, Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E 
Washington Steet, Phoenix, AZ 85331, telephone (602) 495-0901, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Pueblo Grande 
Museum, Phoenix, AZ. The human remains and associated funerary objects 
were removed from Greenlee 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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Pueblo 
Grande Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives 
of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; and the Zuni 
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico (hereafter referred to as 
``The Tribes'').

History and Description of the Remains

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from the Double Circle Ranch near Eagle Creek 
in Greenlee County, AZ, by an unknown collector. In 1986, the human 
remains and associated funerary objects were identified in the 
collections of the Arizona Museum, which later became the Phoenix 
Museum of History. On September 10, 2009, the human remains and 
associated funerary objects were transferred from the Phoenix Museum of 
History (which closed in 2009) to the Pueblo Grande Museum. No known 
individual was identified. The fragmentary and cremated human remains 
belong to an adult, and are possibly male. The two associated funerary 
objects include an Alameda Brown ware ceramic jar and a red ware sherd. 
Alameda Brown ware dates between A.D. 700 and 1300. Based on the 
collecting location and associated funerary object type, these human 
remains are likely from the Mogollon archeological culture, which is 
Ancestral Puebloan.
    Cultural continuity between Ancestral Puebloans and modern day 
Puebloan tribes is demonstrated by geographical, archeological, 
historical, architectural, and oral traditional evidence.
    The Hopi Tribe of Arizona considers all of Arizona to be within 
traditional Hopi lands or within areas where Hopi

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clans migrated in the past. Oral traditions and material culture 
demonstrate continuity between the prehistoric Mogollon archeological 
culture and the Hopi people.
    The Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico, are also affiliated with the Mogollon 
archeological culture.

Determinations Made by the Pueblo Grande Museum

    Officials of the Pueblo Grande Museum have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the two 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.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects and The Tribes.

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 Lindsey Vogel-Teeter, Pueblo Grande Museum, 
4619 E Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85331, telephone (602) 495-0901, 
email [email protected], by March 11, 2019. After that 
date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to The 
Tribes may proceed.
    The Pueblo Grande Museum is responsible for notifying The Tribes 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: December 11, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-01625 Filed 2-7-19; 8:45 am]
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