[Federal Register: January 14, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 10)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Possession
of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate
a cultural item in the possession of the Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology, University of New Mexico which meets the definition of
``object of cultural patrimony'' under Section 2 of the Act.
    The cultural item is a leather medicine man's cap with turkey
feathers.
    In 1964, this cultural item was purchased in Forestdale, AZ by
University of New Mexico anthropology professor Florence Hawley Ellis.
    Following a consultation visit, representatives of the White
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation and the San Carlos
Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation identified this cap as being
from the White Mountain Apache reservation. Consultation evidence
presented by representatives of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of the
Fort Apache Reservation indicates this cultural item has on-going
historical and cultural importance central to the tribe itself could
not have been sold or alienated by any individual.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Maxwell
Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(4), this one
cultural item has ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural
importance central to the tribe itself, and could not have been
alienated, appropriated, or conveyed by any individual. Officials of
the Maxwell Museum have also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2
(e), there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be
reasonably traced between this item and the White Mountain Apache Tribe
of the Fort Apache Reservation.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the White Mountain Apache
Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation and the San Carlos Apache Tribe of
the San Carlos Reservation. Representatives of any other Indian tribe
that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with this object
should contact Marian Rodee, Curator of Southwest Ethnology, Maxwell
Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
87131; telephone: (505) 277-4405 before February 14, 2000. Repatriation
of this object to the White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache
Reservation may begin after

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that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: December 17, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 00-901 Filed 1-13-00; 8:45 am]
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