[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71669-71670]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25572]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034906; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Arizona State Museum, University 
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Arizona State Museum (ASM) has completed 
an inventory of human

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remains and an associated funerary object and has determined that there 
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated 
funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in 
this notice. The human remains and associated funerary object were 
removed from Pima County, Arizona.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after December 23, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Cristin Lucas, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210026, Tucson, AZ 85721-0026, 
telephone (520) 626-0320, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of ASM. 
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in 
this notice. Additional information on the determinations in this 
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the 
inventory or related records held by the ASM.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from site AZ BB:14:1(ASM) in Pima County, AZ. The site was first 
recorded in 1925 by an archeology field class under the direction of 
Byron Cummings with the University of Arizona (UA). Permitted 
excavation was subsequently conducted in 1927 by Edward John Hands 
under the direction of the UA. Collections from these field seasons 
were brought to ASM following fieldwork; no accession number was 
assigned. In 1941, ASM loaned to the Harvard Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology and Ethnology (Peabody) a ceramic cremation vessel 
containing cremated human remains that had been removed from site AZ 
BB:14:1(ASM). The human remains and vessel remained at the Peabody 
until 2021 when they were recalled by ASM. No known individual was 
identified. The one associated funerary object is a ceramic cremation 
vessel.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary object in this notice are 
connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, 
or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity between 
the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one 
or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following 
types of information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: 
anthropological, archeological, biological, geographical, historical, 
linguistic, and oral traditional.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, ASM has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     The one object described in this notice is 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
object described in this notice and the Ak-Chin Indian Community 
(previously listed as 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.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after December 23, 2022. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the ASM must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. ASM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the 
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this 
notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: November 16, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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