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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the Possession
of the Nebraska State Historical Society
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior
ACTION: Notice
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Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 of the intent to
repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Nebraska State
Historical Society that meet the definition of "unassociated
funerary objects" under section 2 of the Act.
The 31,651 unassociated funerary objects were recovered from
fourteen archeological sites located in Butler (25BU1, 25BU4),
Hamilton (25HM2), Howard (25HW1, 25HW3, 25HW5), Nance (25NC1,
25NC3, 25NC7, 25NC11, 25NC20), Polk (25PK1), Platte (25PT1), and
Webster (25WT1) Counties in east-central Nebraska. Objects
include abraders, animal bones, arrow points (metal and stone),
beads (glass and shell), bells, bracelets, bridle bits, buttons
(glass, metal, and shell), cradle board fragments, coins
(American and Spanish), cups, ear bobs, fabric, felt, files, fire
steels, flints, glass, gun parts, hide, hoes, knives, leather,
matting, medals, metal, a mirror frame, paint, pebbles, pigment,
pipes, pottery sherds, projectile points, rings, scrapers, seeds,
shells, spoons, spurs, stones, thimbles, vegetal material,
whetstones, and wood. All of the objects are believed to have
been intentionally placed with or near individual Native American
human remains as part of a death rite or ceremony. The
individual human remains are not in the possession of the
Nebraska State Historical Society either because they were not
collected during excavation or because they were previously
repatriated by the Nebraska State Historical Society to the
Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma in 1990 and 1991.
The sites represent three cultural phases: Pawnee Phase (1750-
1876), Lower Loup Phase (1600-1750), and Itskari Phase (1000-
1350). Pawnee Phase sites were identified on the basis of
historic written records. Lower Loup Phase sites were identified
on the basis of material cultural continuities with Pawnee Phase
sites. Itskari Phase sites were identified on the basis of
geographical coincidence with Lower Loup and Pawnee Phase sites.
On February 1, 1994, the Nebraska State Historical Society agreed
to repatriate the above mentioned unassociated funerary objects
to the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Representatives of any other
Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated
with these objects should contact Gail DeBuse Potter, Museum
Curator, Nebraska State Historical Society, P.O. Box 82554,
Lincoln NE 68501, telephone: (402) 471-4759, fax: (402) 471-3314,
by July 15, 1994. Repatriation of the objects to the Pawnee
Tribe of Oklahoma may begin after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
Dated: May 24, 1994
Dr. Francis P. McManamon
Departmental Consulting Archeologist
Chief, Archeological Assistance Division
[FR Doc. 94-13168 Filed 5-27-94; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-70-F
Federal Register/Vol.59,No.103/Tuesday,May 31,1994/Notices 28104
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