[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 41 (Friday, March 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7116-7117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-03577]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027265; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Thomas Burke 
Memorial Washington State Museum, Seattle, WA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum (Burke 
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 Burke 
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 Burke Museum at the address 
in this notice by April 1, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Peter Lape, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Box 
353010, Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206) 685-3849, email 
[email protected].

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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 the Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 
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 1990, 23 cultural items were removed from the Sba'badid site 
(45-KI-51) in King County, WA, during a cultural resource testing 
program by BOAS, Inc. Human remains were recovered and transferred to 
the Duwamish Tribe, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, in 1991. 
The funerary objects were retained by BOAS, Inc., and were received by 
the Burke Museum in 2003 (Accn. #2003-98). The 23 unassociated funerary 
objects are three lots of metal fragments, five lots of beads, three 
lots of ceramic fragments, three stone tools, one nail, one shell 
fragment, two non-human bone fragments, one lot of cedar wood, one 
piece of charcoal, one lot of buttons, one penny, and one flake.
    Sba'badid was the site of a historic Duwamish village until the 
mid-19th century (Chatters 1981). The terms of the 1855 Point Elliott 
Treaty assigned the Duwamish to the Suquamish Reservation (called Fort 
Kitsap at the time). After 1856, due to violence between whites and 
Native Americans, as well as the competition over available resources, 
many Duwamish left the Suquamish Reservation. The Indian agent 
subsequently assigned the Duwamish to the Muckleshoot reservation. 
Descendants of the Duwamish people are members of the present-day 
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and the Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port 
Madison Reservation.

Determinations Made by the Burke Museum

    Officials of the Burke Museum have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 23 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 Muckleshoot Indian Tribe 
(previously listed as the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot 
Reservation, Washington) and the Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port 
Madison Reservation.

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 Peter Lape, Burke Museum, University of 
Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206) 685-3849, 
email [email protected], by April 1, 2019. After that date, if no additional 
claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated 
funerary objects to the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe (previously listed as 
the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation, 
Washington) and the Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison 
Reservation may proceed.
    The Burke Museum is responsible for notifying the Muckleshoot 
Indian Tribe (previously listed as the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the 
Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington) and the Suquamish Indian Tribe of 
the Port Madison Reservation that this notice has been published.

    Dated: February 1, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-03577 Filed 2-28-19; 8:45 am]
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