[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57466-57467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18141]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036443; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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), University 
of Arizona, intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural 
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in 
this notice. The cultural items were removed from Santa Barbara County, 
CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after September 22, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Cristin Lucas, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State 
Museum, 1013 E University Boulevard, 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 the 
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 summary or related records held by the ASM.

Description

    On an unknown date in 1925, 70 cultural items were removed from 
LOMPOC:1:2(GP) in Santa Barbara County, CA. The cultural items were 
collected by Frank McCoy, owner of the Santa Maria Inn, and were said 
to have come from a burial. Catalog records indicate that archeologist 
Harold S. Gladwin acquired the items from McCoy in 1925. Gladwin was a 
resident of Santa Barbara before founding the Gila Pueblo Archaeology 
Foundation in Globe, AZ, in the late 1920s. Gladwin lived at the 
Foundation off and on throughout its active years until he dissolved 
the institution in the late-1940s. In 1951, most of the Foundation's 
collections, including the 70 cultural items listed here, were 
transferred to ASM. The 70 unassociated funerary objects are one 
projectile point, one biface, 66 ground stone ornaments, one shell 
ring, and one shark tooth.
    On an unknown date prior to 1936, one cultural item was removed 
from an unknown site north of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, CA. 
The cultural item was collected by Carl Miller and is noted to have 
been recovered from ``Burial 24.'' In 1936, the item was donated to ASM 
by Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore Hodges in 1936, who presumably had received it 
from Miller. The one unassociated funerary object is a shell necklace.
    In the mid-1920s, three cultural items were removed from a site 
designated as Santa Barbara:13(GP), a site recorded by the Gila Pueblo 
Archaeological Foundation. The original documentation of the site 
recorded its name as ``Amolomal'' and ``Burton Mound,'' and described 
its location as being ``at the foot of Chapala St., on the site once 
occupied by the Potter Hotel.'' Harrington (1928) lists Syujtun (also 
Syuxtun [Gamble 2008]) as the indigenous name for the Burton Mound 
site, while Rogers (1929) describes Siuhtun, Burton Mound, and Amolomol 
as separate sites. Recent publications (Gamble 2008; McDaniel Wilcox 
2013) use the site number CA-SBA-28 for the mound and recognize it as 
having been the location of Syuxtun. The original catalog card for 
these items is undated, but the early catalog number suggests that they 
were likely collected in the mid-1920s by archeologist Harold S. 
Gladwin, who founded the Gila Pueblo Archaeology Foundation. In 1951, 
most of the Foundation's collections, including the three items listed 
here, were transferred to ASM. The three unassociated funerary objects 
are one fossil, one crystal, and one shell, all unmodified.
    In 1926, one cultural item was removed from a site designated as 
Santa Barbara:4(GP), a site recorded by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological 
Foundation. The catalog card describes the site as a village located on 
Higgins Ranch, southeast of Carpinteria and adjoining the Carpinteria 
tar-pit, between the Coast Highway and the beach. The item was 
collected in 1926 by archeologist Harold S. Gladwin, who founded the 
Gila Pueblo Archaeology Foundation. In 1951, most of the Foundation's 
collections, including the one item listed here, were transferred to 
ASM. The one unassociated funerary object is a bifacial tool.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural items 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, geographical, and historical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the ASM has determined that:
     The 75 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Santa Ynez Band 
of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after September 22, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the ASM must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the 
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The ASM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.


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    Dated: August 16, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18141 Filed 8-22-23; 8:45 am]
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