[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 222 (Friday, November 16, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68827-68828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27955]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-11614;2200-1100-665]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The Museum of
Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico,
in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribe, has determined that
the cultural items meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects
and repatriation to the Indian tribe stated below may occur if no
additional claimants come forward. Representatives of any Indian tribe
that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with the cultural
items may contact the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a
cultural affiliation with the cultural items should contact the Museum
of Indian Arts and Culture at the address below by December 17, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Elena Sweeney, Acting Director, Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture, P.O. Box 2087, Santa Fe, NM 87504, telephone (505) 690-1415.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that meet 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 Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
Between 1928 and 1932, joint excavations by the University of New
Mexico and the School of American Research removed human remains and
funerary objects from the Unshagi site (LA 123), in Sandoval County,
NM. Human remains from these burials are under the control of the
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and the
Peabody Museum of Harvard University. The Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture has control over seven unassociated funerary objects from the
site, including one worked glycimeris shell, three Jemez Black-on-white
bowls, one Kuaua Glaze Polychrome bowl, one Glaze F bowl, and one
necklace made of fish-vertebrae. The seven objects were removed from
numbered burials, but it is not possible to link these funerary objects
with specific human remains in the Maxwell Museum or Peabody Museum
collections.
Between 1910 and 1913, excavations by the American Bureau of
Ethnology and the School of American Research removed human remains and
funerary objects from the Amoxiumqua site (LA 481), in Sandoval County,
NM. Human remains from these burials are under the control of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture has control over three unassociated funerary objects from the
site, including two Jemez Black-on-white bowls and one strand of
Venetian glass beads. The objects were removed from numbered burials,
but it is not possible to link these funerary objects with specific
human remains in the Smithsonian collection.
In 1921, the School of American Research and the Laboratory of
Anthropology removed human remains and funerary objects from the
Guisewa site (LA 679), in Sandoval County, NM. Human remains from these
burials are under the control of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at
the University of New Mexico. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has
control over five unassociated funerary objects from the site,
including four Jemez Black-on-white bowls and one charred textile
fragment. The objects were
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removed from numbered burials, but it is not possible to link these
funerary objects with specific human remains in the Maxwell Museum
collection.
In 1937, the University of New Mexico archaeological field school
removed human remains and funerary objects from the Guisewa site (LA
679), in Sandoval County, NM. Human remains from these burials are
under the control of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the
University of New Mexico. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has
control over three unassociated funerary objects from the site,
including one small culinary bowl, one Jemez Black-on-white bowl, and
one restorable Black-on-white bowl. The objects were removed from
numbered burials, but it is not possible to link these funerary objects
with specific human remains in the Maxwell Museum collection.
In 1965, the Museum of New Mexico removed human remains and
funerary objects from the Guisewa site (LA 679), in Sandoval County,
NM, prior to the installation of a new water line. Human remains from
these burials are under the control of the Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. The Museum of Indian Arts
and Culture has control over three unassociated funerary objects from
the site, including one corn, one lot of animal bones, and one small
restorable utility ware bowl. The objects were removed from numbered
burials, but it is not possible to link these funerary objects with
specific human remains in the Maxwell Museum collection.
At an unknown date, an unknown individual removed human remains and
funerary objects from an excavated burial at the Giusewa site (LA 679),
in Sandoval County, NM. The location of human remains from this site is
unknown, but they are presumed to be in the collections of the Maxwell
Museum of Anthropology. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has
control over one unassociated funerary object from the site. It is not
possible to link this funerary object with specific human remains in
the Maxwell Museum collection.
Based on material culture and associated architecture, the
unassociated funerary objects listed in this notice have been
identified as Native American. The burials from which these objects
were removed can be identified as ancestral Jemez because they came
from known Puebloan sites of the upper Jemez River drainage.
Populations that inhabited these sites are linked by Native oral
tradition, Euro-American records, and archeological evidence to members
of the present-day Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico.
Determinations Made by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Officials of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture have determined
that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 22 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.
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 Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Elena Sweeney, Acting Director, Museum of Indian Arts and
Culture, P.O. Box 2087, Santa Fe, NM 87504, telephone (505) 690-1415,
before December 17, 2012. Repatriation of the unassociated funerary
objects to the Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico, may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come forward.
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Museum of New Mexico, is
responsible for notifying the Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: October 25, 2012.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2012-27955 Filed 11-15-12; 8:45 am]
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