[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22574-22575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08122]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033705; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Karshner Museum 
and Center for Culture & Arts, Puyallup, WA [Formerly the Karshner 
Museum] and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Washington, DC

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts (Karshner 
Center) and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs (BIA), in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations, have determined that the cultural items 
listed in this notice meet the definition of sacred objects, objects of 
cultural patrimony, or 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 Karshner Center. 
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 Karshner Center at the 
address in this notice by May 16, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen S. Higgins, Karshner Museum and 
Center for Culture & Arts, 309 4th Street NE, Puyallup, WA 98372, 
telephone (253) 841-8748, 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 Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts, Puyallup, 
WA, and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
Washington, DC, that meet the definition of sacred objects, objects of 
cultural patrimony, or 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 or before 1930, 19 sacred objects were separated from the 
Coastal Salish people. The items are one spirit stick in the shape of a 
spear, one cedar bark dress, one cedar bark headdress, one glass bottle 
containing red ochre mixed with fat, one shirt, 13 bone wedges [one of 
which is currently missing], and one stone pipe. Dr. Warner M. Karshner 
acquired the spirit stick (1930.01.1-233) from an unidentified 
individual in La Connor, WA, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit 
County, and in

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1930, he donated it to the Karshner Museum, which he had founded that 
year. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mrs. Joe Billy (nee Louise 
Cassimer) gifted the cedar bark dress (1935.01.1-47) to Charles L. 
Judd. In 1935, Mr. Judd sold the dress to Dr. Karshner, who in turn 
donated it to the Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mr. 
Judd acquired the headdress (1935.01.1-149) from the Coastal Salish 
First Nations Community of Saanich on Vancouver Island, British 
Columbia. Subsequently--most likely in 1935--Mr. Judd sold the cedar 
bark headdress to Dr. Karshner. In 1935, Dr. Karshner donated the cedar 
bark headdress to the Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, 
Mr. Judd acquired a glass bottle containing red ochre mixed with fat 
(1935.01.1-228) from an unidentified individual in La Connor, 
Washington, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County. In 1935, Mr. 
Judd sold the glass bottle to Dr. Karshner, who in turn donated it to 
the Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mr. Judd acquired 
the shirt (1935.01.1-231) from an unidentified individual in La Connor, 
Washington, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County. In 1935, Mr. 
Judd sold the shirt to Dr. Karshner, who in turn donated it to the 
Karshner Museum. Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Mr. Judd acquired four 
bone wedges (1935.01.1-414) from an ``archaeological dig'' at 
Weaverling Spit on Fidalgo Island, San Juan Islands, Skagit County. In 
1935, Mr. Judd sold the bone wedges to Dr. Karshner, who in turn 
donated them to the Karshner Museum. In or before 1935, Dr. Karshner 
obtained a stone pipe bowl from San Juan Island, Skagit County 
(1935.01.1-492). In 1935, he donated the pipe bowl to the Karshner 
Museum. In 1935, Dr. Karshner acquired nine bone wedges (1935.01.1-493) 
from San Juan Island, Skagit County, WA, and donated them to the 
Karshner Museum.
    The 19 cultural items described above are used by the Coastal 
Salish people of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community [previously 
listed as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of Washington] 
in Siown ceremonies.
    In or before 1935, one object of cultural patrimony was separated 
from the Coastal Salish people. The item is a wild goat hair blanket 
(1935.01.1-237). Sometime between 1913 and 1930, Charles L. Judd 
acquired the blanket from an unidentified individual in La Connor, 
Washington, on the Swinomish Reservation in Skagit County. In 1935, Mr. 
Judd sold the blanket to Dr. Karshner, who in turn donated it to the 
Karshner Museum.
    In or before 1936, four unassociated funerary objects were removed 
from a grave on the Swinomish Reservation located in Skagit County, WA. 
The items are four worked stones (1936.01.1-214). In 1936, Dr. and Mrs. 
Karshner donated them to the Karshner Museum.

Determinations Made by the Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & 
Arts and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs

    Officials of the Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts and 
the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), the 19 cultural items 
described above are specific ceremonial objects needed by traditional 
Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional 
Native American religions by their present-day adherents.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the one cultural item 
described above has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural 
importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, 
rather than property owned by an individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the four 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 
cultural items and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community [previously 
listed as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of 
Washington].

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 Karen S. Higgins, Karshner Museum and Center 
for Culture & Arts, 309 4th Street NE, Puyallup, WA 98372, telephone 
(253) 841-8748, email [email protected], by May 16, 2022. 
After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer 
of control of the sacred objects, object of cultural patrimony, and 
unassociated funerary objects to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community 
[previously listed as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of 
Washington] may proceed.
    The Karshner Museum and Center for Culture & Arts and the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs are responsible 
for notifying the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community [previously listed 
as Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of Washington] that 
this notice has been published.

    Dated: April 7, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-08122 Filed 4-14-22; 8:45 am]
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