[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 234 (Friday, December 4, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78353-78354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26761]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031200; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Pueblo Grande Museum, City of 
Phoenix, AZ; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Pueblo Grande Museum has corrected an inventory of human 
remains and associated funerary objects in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion published in the Federal Register on May 8, 2020. This 
notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and 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 
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 January 4, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Lindsey Vogel-Teeter, Pueblo Grande Museum, 4619 E. 
Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034, telephone (602) 534-1572, 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 Pueblo Grande 
Museum, Phoenix, AZ. The human remains and associated funerary objects 
were removed from Maricopa County, AZ, as well as unspecified locations 
within central or southern 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 the 
number of associated funerary objects in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion published in the Federal Register (85 FR 27435-27443, May 8, 
2020). Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has 
not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 27436, May 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 3, is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    Between 1936 and 1939, human remains representing, at minimum, 
54 individuals were removed from site AZ U:9:1(ASM)/Pueblo Grande in 
Maricopa County, AZ, by PGM personnel. These excavations occurred in 
multiple areas of the site, and the majority of this work was 
conducted under the supervision of Julian Hayden. The human remains 
have been in the collections of PGM since they were excavated, but 
some individuals were not identified until 2018, during a review of 
the faunal and unprovenanced collections. The human remains belong 
to 37 cremated individuals and 17 individuals from inhumations. The 
individuals range in age from fetal to old adult and include both 
males and females. No known individuals were identified. The 125 
associated funerary objects are 18 ceramic bowls of plain ware, red 
ware, and red-on-buff ware; eight ceramic jars of plain ware and 
Black Mesa black-on-white ware; one ceramic pitcher; one seed jar; 
three scoops of red ware and red-on-buff ware; four environmental 
samples; two lots of textile fragments; one spindle whorl; 13 lots 
of worked faunal bones that include awls; eight lots of shells; 
seven lots of shell jewelry that include bracelets, pendants, and 
beads; 25 lots of ceramic sherds of plain ware, red ware, red-on-
buff ware, and polychrome ware; nine lots of faunal bones, including 
the remains of a red-tailed hawk burial; six vessel fragments/
partial vessels; one piece of stone jewelry; one worked sherd; one 
polishing stone; one lot of charcoal; three lots of a white chalky 
substance (possibly burned caliche or shell); two axes; one 
hammerstone; one red-on-buff censer; three palettes; two lithics; 
one projectile point; one turtle carapace; and one figurine.
    In the Federal Register (85 FR 274441, May 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 6, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    At an unknown time, human remains representing, at minimum, 21 
individuals were removed from various unidentified locations in AZ.

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 274441, May 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 6, sentences 8-11 are corrected by substituting the following 
sentences:

    Ten of the individuals are from inhumations and 11 of the 
individuals are from cremations. The individuals are of varying ages 
and sexes. No known individuals were identified. The four associated 
funerary objects are one lot ceramic sherds, one lot burned faunal 
bone, and two lots of burned shell.

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 274442, May 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1, under the heading ``Determinations Made by the 
Pueblo Grande Museum,'' is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains 
described in this notice represent the physical remains of 286 
individuals of Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 274442, May 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 2, under the heading ``Determinations Made by the 
Pueblo Grande Museum,'' is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 610 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.

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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 85034, telephone (602) 534-1572, 
email [email protected], by January 4, 2021. After that 
date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the and 
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 (hereafter referred 
to as ``The Tribes'') may proceed.
    The Pueblo Grande Museum is responsible for notifying The Tribes 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: November 24, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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