FR Doc E7-16798
[Federal Register: August 24, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 164)]
[Notices]
[Page 48675-48676]
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 Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Fort Worth Museum
of Science and History, Fort Worth, 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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Fort Worth Museum
of Science and History, Fort Worth, TX that meets the definition of
"unassociated funerary objects" under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
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 cultural
items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
In the early 1950s, cultural items were excavated from extended
burials on private property at site CA-SJO-105 under the control of the
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. In 1986, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and
History obtained funerary objects that were originally removed from
this site. The cultural items are recorded as excavated from numbered
burials; however, the human remains are not in the possession of the
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. The 16 unassociated funerary
objects are 2 Haliotis shell pendants, 4 obsidian knife or spear
points, 1 serrated-edge obsidian point, 2 clam shell pendants or
spoons, 1 red/black obsidian scraper, 3 chert scrapers, 2 obsidian
arrow points, and 1 string of olivella shell beads. Four obsidian
points also were listed on the original inventory, but are missing from
collections and have not been included in this count.
Site CA-SJO-105 is located between Stockton and Lodi, CA and within
the historical territory of the Northern Valley Yokut. Descendants of
the Northern and Southern Valley Yokut are members of the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California. The cultural
items are consistent with those used by the Northern and Southern
Valley Yokut. The Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
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Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut Tribe) have requested the
unassociated funerary objects described above for repatriation.
Officials of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 16 cultural
items 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of
the evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a
Native American individual. Officials of the Fort Worth Museum of
Science and 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 unassociated funerary objects and the
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Renee Tucker, Assistant Curator of History, Fort Worth Museum
of Science and History, 1501 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107,
telephone (817) 255-9325, before September 24, 2007. Repatriation of
the unassociated funerary objects to the Santa Rosa Indian Community of
the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is responsible for
notifying the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California that this notice has been published.
Dated: August 3, 2007.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7-16798 Filed 8-23-07; 8:45 am]
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