[Federal Register: November 23, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 225)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indians Affairs, Washington, DC, and Milwaukee Public Museum,
Milwaukee, WI
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in the possession of the
Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from the Navajo Indian
Reservation.
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.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Bureau of
Indian Affairs and Milwaukee Public Museum professional staff and
contract specialists in physical anthropology in consultation with
representatives of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
In 1925, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from the vicinity of Inscription House, Navajo Canyon, in
Arizona, on the Navajo Indian Reservation by museum curator, Samuel A.
Barrett, during a Milwaukee Public Museum expedition. No known
individual was identified. The one associated funerary object is a
potsherd.
On the basis of stylistic attributes, the associated funerary
object can be identified as dating to circa post[macr] A.D. 1300, the
Pueblo IV or Pueblo V period of Anasazi culture.
At an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from ruins in Navajo, AZ, on the Navajo Indian
Reservation, by A.J. Newcomb, a trading post operator in Tohatchi, NM.
Mr. Newcomb donated the human remains to the Milwaukee Public Museum in
1925. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
The human remains were removed from a refuse heap outside a kiva
wall associated with ruins in Navajo, AZ, on the Navajo Indian
Reservation. Objects found in the ruins but not donated to the
Milwaukee Public Museum indicate that the formation of the refuse heap
dates to circa A.D. 900-1600. The human remains exhibit lamboid cranial
deformation, which is associated with the Pueblo II through Pueblo IV
periods of Anasazi culture.
At an unknown date, human remains representing three individuals
were removed from ``Ruin 2, Silent City,'' presumed to be
located near Tohatchi, NM, on the Navajo Indian Reservation by A.J.
Newcomb. Mr. Newcomb donated the remains to the Milwaukee Public Museum
in 1921. No known individuals were identified. The one associated
funerary object is an earthenware pot.
One of the individuals from the Silent City site was removed from a
refuse heap outside a kiva wall associated with the ruins. Stylistic
attributes of the pot identify the occupation as affiliated with the
Anasazi culture. Stylistic attributes of the pot also date the burial
of one of the other individuals to circa A.D. 900-1300, Pueblo II-III
period of the archeologically defined Anasazi culture.
Based on cranial morphology, dental traits, and associated funerary
objects, the human remains are identified as Native American.
Consultation evidence provided by the Hopi Tribe of Arizona indicates
that Navajo Canyon in Arizona, and Navajo, AZ, both on the Navajo
Indian Reservation, are part of the aboriginal territory of the Hopi
culture, despite current occupation by the Navajo Nation, Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah. Consultation evidence provided by representatives of
the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Laguna, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
indicates that these groups are descended from Anasazi people living in
the vicinity of the present[macr]day Navajo Indian Reservation.
Officials of the Bureau of Indians Affairs and the Milwaukee Public
Museum have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the
human remains described above represent the physical remains of at
least five individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Milwaukee Public Museum also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the two objects
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. Lastly, officials of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Milwaukee Public Museum have determined that, pursuant to
25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared group identity
that can be reasonably traced between the Native American human remains
and associated funerary objects and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo
of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Dr. Alex Barker, Anthropology Section Head,
Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233,
telephone (414) 278-2786, before December 23, 2004. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Hopi
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Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New
Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may begin
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible for notifying the Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New
Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico that this
notice has been published.
Dated: October 7, 2004
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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