FR Doc E6-14472
[Federal Register: August 30, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 168)]
[Notices]
[Page 51636-51637]
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: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of
Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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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 in the possession of the
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK. The human remains were removed from Crittendon,
Mississippi, and Poinsett Counties, AR.
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. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Sam
Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Oklahoma State
Archeologist professional staff in consultation with representatives of
the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma.
After further consultation with the Quapaw Tribe of Indians,
Oklahoma, previously culturally unidentifiable human remains (Arkansas-
161) consisting of a skull and dentition representing a minimum of one
individual have been determined to be culturally affiliated with the
Quapaw Indians. This notice supersedes the Notice of Inventory
Completion published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, December 28,
2005 (FR Doc. E5-7886, pages 76864-76865).
In 1933, human remains representing a minimum of two individuals
were removed from Cummin's Place, also called Cumming's Place
(Arkansas-7/130, 7/131), in Poinsett County, AR, by Frank Newkumet. Mr.
Newkumet loaned the human remains to the Oklahoma Museum of Natural
History (now the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History) from
1933 until 1947. The museum purchased the collection from Mr. Newkumet
in 1947. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary
objects are present. A deer bone found with the human remains at
Arkansas-7/130 was not located during the inventory process.
In 1933, human remains representing a minimum of three individuals
were removed from Upper Nodena Place (Arkansas-7/137, 7/138, and
Arkansas-161) in Mississippi County, AR, by Frank Newkumet. Mr.
Newkumet loaned the human remains to the Oklahoma Museum of Natural
History from 1933 until 1947. The museum purchased the collection from
Mr. Newkumet in 1947. No known individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
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In 1959, human remains representing a minimum of three individuals
were removed from the Banks site (Arkansas-31A) in Crittendon County,
AR, by Greg Perino. Mr. Perino donated the human remains to the
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History later that same year. No known
individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
Diagnostic artifacts found at the Cummin's Place, Upper Nodena
Place, and Banks sites indicate that the human remains are Native
American and were probably buried during the Parkin phase of the
Mississippian nucleation horizon (A.D. 1350-1650). The Parkin phase is
characterized by Nodena leaf-shaped arrow points, Madison arrow points,
pipe drills, chisels, adzes, use of basalt, conch shell beads, mushroom
shaped beads, ear plugs, copper disks, discoidals, catlinite pipes,
Parkin punctate and Barton incised pottery, Mississippian Plain
pottery, effigy forms such as, head pots, compound vessels, and
occasionally red and white Nodena ware. Although many of these types of
artifacts were found at the sites, none of the artifacts besides the
missing deer bone are considered associated funerary objects because
they were not found in a burial context nor is there any other
information that attests to their being from a burial context. Many of
the Parkin phase artifact traits continued to be practiced by people
later identified as Quapaw. European documentation concerning the
geographical range of the Quapaw people supports their presence in the
northeastern part of Arkansas. Present-day descendants of the Quapaw
people are members of the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma.
Officials of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of eight individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of
Natural History also 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 the
Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Dr.
Ellen Censky, Director, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History,
University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua, Norman, OK 73072, telephone
(405) 325-4712, before September 29, 2006. Repatriation of the human
remains to the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come forward.
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is responsible for
notifying the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma that this notice has
been published.
Dated: August 14, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-14472 Filed 8-29-06; 8:45 am]
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