[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 60 (Thursday, March 28, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11812-11813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-06003]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027397; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The Field Museum, 
Chicago, IL

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Field 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 Field 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 Field Museum at the address 
in this notice by April 29, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, The Field Museum, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, 
Chicago, IL 60605, telephone (312) 665-7317, 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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of the Field Museum, Chicago, IL 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 1899, 54 cultural items were removed from the sites of Homolovi 
I and II in Navajo County, AZ. These items were removed from burials by 
J.A. Burt, an employee of the Field Museum, as part of a Museum-
sponsored excavation he conducted during the winter of 1899-1900. The 
38 unassociated funerary objects from Homolovi I consist of one awl, 
one knife, one stone ear pendant, three ceramic mugs, four ceramic 
ladles, four ceramic pots, and 24 ceramic bowls. The 16 unassociated 
funerary objects from Homolovi II consist of one ceramic cup, one 
chipped stone object, two ceramic ladles, four ceramic pots, and eight 
ceramic bowls.
    Homolovi I was occupied from around A.D. 1285 to 1390, and Homolovi 
II was occupied from around A.D. 1350 to 1400. Based on archeological 
research, scholarly research, consultation, and museum records, both 
Homolovi I and II are affiliated with the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The items described 
above were determined to be unassociated funerary objects based on 
Burt's own notes, which indicate the specific grave from which he 
removed each item.

Determinations Made by the Field Museum

    Officials of the Field Museum have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 54 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.

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     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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

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 Helen Robbins, The Field Museum, 1400 S Lake 
Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone (312) 665-7317, email 
[email protected], by April 29, 2019. After that date, if no 
additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the 
unassociated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the Zuni 
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may proceed.
    The Field Museum is responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico that 
this notice has been published.

    Dated: February 25, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-06003 Filed 3-27-19; 8:45 am]
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