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FR Doc 04-25928
[Federal Register: November 23, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 225)]
[Notices]
[Page 68161-68162]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Texas Archeological Research
Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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 possession of the Texas Archeological Research
Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. The human
remains were removed from a site in San Jacinto County, TX.
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 Texas
Archeological Research Laboratory professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas. No other
tribes were consulted.
In 1968 and 1969, human remains representing a minimum of four
individuals were removed from the Arthur Patterson site, San Jacinto
County, TX, during excavations by the Texas State Building Commission,
the Texas Water Development Board, the Houston Archeological Society
and students from Coldsprings High School. The human remains were
acquired by the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at an
undocumented date. No known individuals were identified. The 93
associated funerary objects are 34 lots of beads, 2 ceramic cups, 2
ceramic saucers, 1 ceramic plate, 1 lot of glass bottle fragments, 1
glass goblet, 2 glass tumblers, 3 hawk bell fragments, 5 iron
fragments, 1 lot of iron nail fragments, 1 lot of iron scissors
fragments, 4 pieces of petrified wood, 7 sherds, 8 silver conchos, 6
white glass buttons, 1 metal bucket, 1 wood fragment, 5 pieces of
quartzite, 1 bone-handled knife, 1 domesticated pig canine, 1 lot of
feathers, 1 glass medicine bottle, 2 fragmented rings, 1 lot of sherds
and flakes, and 1 lot of glass beads.
The Arthur Patterson site is a Native American cemetery that
appears to have been in use from the 1840s to the 1870s based on the
artifacts found with the human remains. The Alabama and Coushatta
Indians were the only groups known historically in the area during that
period. The nature of the site from which the human remains were
obtained, the mode of interment, and the kinds of associated funerary
objects are consistent with the practices of the Alabama-Coushatta
Tribes of Texas.
Officials of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of four individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Texas Archeological Research
Laboratory also have determined that, pursuant to 25
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U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 93 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 Texas Archeological Research Laboratory 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 Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Dr. Darrell Creel, Director, The University of
Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, 1 University
Station R7500, Austin, TX 78712-0714, telephone (512) 471-5960, before
December 23, 2004. Repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Texas Archeological Research Laboratory is responsible for
notifying the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas that this notice has
been published.
Dated: October 25, 2004
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 04-25928 Filed 11-22-04; 8:45 am]
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