[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77882-77883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27525]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035038; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural 
History, Santa Barbara, CA

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 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 
has completed an inventory of human

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

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after January 19, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Luke Swetland, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of 
Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, 
telephone (805) 682-4711, 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 the 
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. 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 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were 
removed from Pinal County, Maricopa County, and Pima County, AZ.
    On September 10, 1915, Frank A. Thackery collected a Hohokam 
ceramic funerary vessel containing cremated human remains and a 
potsherd from the Gila River Indian Reservation during the excavation 
of a sewer ditch running north from the new Sacaton hospital to the 
Little Gila canal, in Sacaton, AZ. In 1995, Eric Hvolboll donated this 
burial to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The two 
associated funerary objects are the ceramic funerary vessel and the 
ceramic potsherd contained within it.
    Sometime prior to October 23, 1933, the Gila Pueblo Archaeological 
Foundation (Globe, AZ) excavated a Hohokam ceramic funerary vessel 
containing cremated human remains from the archeological site of Casa 
Buena in Phoenix, AZ. Harold Gladwin, the archeologist who founded the 
Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation, donated this burial to the Santa 
Barbara Museum of Natural History, and it was accessioned on October 
23, 1933. The one associated funerary object is the ceramic funerary 
vessel.
    Sometime prior to 1950, a Hohokam ceramic funerary vessel 
containing cremated human remains was removed from the site of the 
Russell Ranch School in Tucson, AZ. On July 30, 1954, Dr. and Mrs. 
Robert Russell donated this burial to the Santa Barbara Museum of 
Natural History. The one associated funerary object is the ceramic 
funerary vessel.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects 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: geographical, kinship, biological, archeological, 
linguistic, folkloric, oral traditional, historical, and other 
information or expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The four 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects 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 January 19, 2023. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Santa Barbara 
Museum of Natural History 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. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 
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, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: December 13, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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