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with physical features common to 

Ancient Puebloan populations. Cultural 

items associated with the burials are 

diagnostic of Ancient Puebloan 

technological traditions. Occupation of 

the Dark Mold dates to the Basketmaker 

II period, from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 500.

Prior to 2000, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed by staff from 

the University of Colorado from an 

unspecified site in southwestern 

Colorado. The human remains (OAHP 

Case Number 176) were transferred to 

the Colorado Office of Archaeology and 

Historic Preservation in 2000. No 

known individual was identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Cranial morphology is consistent with 

physical features common to Ancient 

Puebloan populations. Ancient 

Puebloan sites in southwestern 

Colorado generally date between 

approximately A.D. 400 and 1300.

In 2000, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed by staff from Fort Lewis 

College from site 5LP5980, La Plata 

County, CO. The human remains (OAHP 

Case Number 183) were transferred to 

the Colorado Office of Archaeology and 

Historic Preservation in 2002. 

Excavations at site 5LP5980 were 

conducted pursuant to a state permit. At 

the time of removal, site 5LP5980 was 

located on private land. No known 

individual was identified. The three 

associated funerary objects are two 

small gray ceramic pots and one deer 

scapula hoe. Cranial morphology is 

consistent with physical features 

common to Ancient Puebloan 

populations. Occupation of site 

5LP5980 dates to the Basketmaker II/III 

period from approximately 1500 B.C. to 

A.D. 750.

In 2003, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed by Charles Wheeler from site 

5LP7347 on the grounds of Fort Lewis 

College, La Plata County, CO. The 

human remains (OAHP Case Number 

208) were transferred to the Colorado 

Office of Archaeology and Historic 

Preservation in 2003. No known 

individual was identified. No associated 

funerary objects are present. Occupation 

of 5LP7347 dates to the Basketmaker II/

III period, from approximately 1500 B.C. 

to A.D. 750.

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from an 

unidentified site in Jefferson County, 

CO. The human remains (OAHP Case 

Number 149) were seized by the Arvada 

Police Department as part of a criminal 

investigation and subsequently 

transferred to the Colorado Office of 

Archaeology and Historic Preservation 

in 1999. No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. Cranial morphology 

is consistent with physical features 

common to Ancient Puebloan 

populations. Ancient Puebloan sites in 

the southwestern United States 

generally date between approximately 

1000 B.C. and A.D. 1300.

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of two 

individuals were removed by an 

unknown individual from an unknown 

site in Montezuma County, CO. The 

human remains (OAHP Case Number 

115) were received by the Colorado 

Office of Archaeology and Historic 

Preservation in 1996. An anonymous 

note accompanying the human remains 

states that the human remains came 

from Cow Canyon in Montezuma 

County, CO. No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. Cranial morphology 

is consistent with physical features 

common to Ancient Puebloan 

populations. Ancient Puebloan sites in 

Montezuma County generally date 

between approximately A.D. 400 and 

1300.

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed by an 

unknown person from a site in Dolores 

County, CO. Bill Wagner of Dolores, CO, 

gave the human remains to Mrs. Odom, 

who subsequently transferred them to 

the U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Land Management, Anasazi 

Heritage Center. The Anasazi Heritage 

Center transferred the human remains to 

the Colorado Office of Archaeology and 

Historic Preservation in 1991 (OAHP 

Case Number 34). At the time of 

removal, site 5DL1989 was on private 

land. No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. Cranial morphology 

is consistent with physical features 

common to Ancient Puebloan 

populations. Ancient Puebloan sites in 

the southwestern United States 

generally date between approximately 

1000 B.C. and A.D. 1300.

The cultural affiliation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

described above with present-day 

Native American tribes was determined 

through the use of the following lines of 

evidence: geographical, kinship, 

biological, archeological, 

anthropological, linguistic, oral 

tradition, historical, and expert opinion. 

Evidence was gathered from 

consultations with the Indian tribes 

listed above in Consultation, physical 

examination, survey of acquisitional 

history, review of pertinent 

archeological, ethnographic, historic, 

anthropological and linguistic literature, 

and artifact analysis. Similarities in site 

architecture and material culture 

associated with the human remains are 

consistent with Ancient Puebloan 

occupation of the southwestern United 

States from the Basketmaker I period 

through the Pueblo III period (between 

approximately 1000 B.C. and A.D. 

1300). The archeological literature refers 

to this widespread cultural tradition as 

‘‘Anasazi,’’ ‘‘Ancestral Puebloan,’’ or 

‘‘Ancient Puebloan.’’ Cranial 

modification is common to many 

Ancient Puebloan remains and is 

believed to reflect their widespread use 

of cradleboards to carry infants. Ancient 

Puebloan ceramic typologies help to 

identify chronological and geographical 

technological traditions. After 

approximately A.D. 1300, climatic 

changes evidently caused pueblo 

populations to leave the Four Corners 

region and resettle in Pueblos along the 

Rio Grande and in the Pueblos of 

Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi. Extant oral 

traditions corroborate dynamic 

population movements within the 

region during this time.

Determinations.Under 25 U.S.C. 3003, 

museum officials have determined that 

the human remains represent the 

physical remains of 361 individuals of 

Native American ancestry. Museum 

officials determined that the 345 

cultural items 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. Museum officials 

determined that the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

culturally affiliated with the Indian 

tribes listed in Summary.

Notification.The museum is 

responsible for sending copies of this 

notice to the consulted Indian tribes 

listed above in Consultation.

Dated: October 12, 2004

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park, Salt Flat, TX

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park, Salt Flat, TX (the Federal 

agency that has control of the cultural 

items), determined that the physical 

remains of 10 individuals of Native 

American ancestry in Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park’s collections, 

described below in Information about 

cultural items, are culturally 

unidentifiable. The Native American 

Graves Protection and Repatriation 

Review Committee (Review Committee) 

recommended that Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park repatriate the 

human remains to the Apache Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, 

Oklahoma; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 

Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; 

Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Mescalero Apache Tribe of the 

Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Zia, New Mexico; San Carlos Apache 

Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, 

Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe 

of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; 

and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico.

The National Park Service publishes 

this notice on behalf of Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

superintendent of Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park is solely responsible for 

information and determinations stated 

in this notice.

Information about NAGPRA is 

available online at www.cr.nps.gov/

nagpra.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

to the Indian tribes listed above in 

Summary may proceed after December 

23, 2004, if no additional claimants 

come forward. Representatives of any 

other Indian tribe that believes itself to 

be culturally affiliated with the cultural 

items should contact Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park before 

December 23, 2004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority. 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq. and 

43 CFR Part 10.

Contact. Contact John Lujan, 

Superintendent, Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park, HC 60, Box 400, Salt Flat, 

TX 79847–9400, telephone (915) 828–

3251, regarding determinations stated in 

this notice or to claim the cultural items 

described in this notice.

Consultation. Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park identified the cultural 

items and assessed the cultural 

affiliation of the cultural items in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Comanche 

Nation, Oklahoma; Fort Sill Apache 

Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New 

Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of 

the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Zia, New Mexico; San Carlos Apache 

Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, 

Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe 

of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; 

and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico.

Information about cultural items. In 

1934–35, human remains representing a 

minimum of six individuals were 

removed from Williams Cave in 

Culberson County, TX. At the time, the 

land on which Williams Cave is located 

was privately owned. The excavations 

were conducted under the auspices of 

the University Museum of Philadelphia 

and the Philadelphia Academy of 

Natural Sciences. Items found at the site 

indicate the human remains were buried 

during the Archaic period (3,000 B.C. to 

A.D. 500). Following the excavation, the 

human remains from Williams Cave 

were curated by several institutions, 

including the Philadelphia Academy of 

Natural Sciences, Carlsbad Municipal 

Museum, and University of 

Nebraska-Lincoln. In 1998, the human 

remains curated by the Carlsbad 

Municipal Museum and the University 

of Nebraska-Lincoln were donated to 

Guadalupe Mountains National Park. No 

known individuals were identified.

In 1965–67, human remains 

representing a minimum of four 

individuals were recovered from Pratt 

Cave in Culberson County, TX. At the 

time, the land on which Pratt Cave was 

located was under Federal jurisdiction. 

Items found at the site indicate the 

human remains were buried during the 

Late Archaic period (600 B.C. to A.D. 

500). No known individuals were 

identified.

On September 30, 1972, the lands on 

which both Williams Cave and Pratt 

Cave are located became part of 

Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park 

officials determined that a relationship 

of shared group identity could not 

reasonably be traced between the 

human remains and any present-day 

Indian tribe.

According to the Review Committee’s 

charter, the Review Committee is 

responsible for recommending specific 

actions for disposition of culturally 

unidentifiable human remains. In 

December 1998, Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park requested that the Review 

Committee recommend repatriation of 

the 10 culturally unidentifiable human 

remains to a group of 12 Indian tribes 

that had requested the human remains 

and that demonstrated a cultural 

relationship to the region. The Review 

Committee considered the proposal at 

its December 1998 meeting in Santa Fe, 

NM, and recommended repatriation of 

the human remains to the 12 Indian 

tribes. A May 25, 1999, letter from the 

Departmental Consulting Archeologist 

on behalf of the chair of the Review 

Committee to the superintendent of 

Guadalupe Mountains National Park 

summarized the Review Committee’s 

consideration of the park’s request and 

transmitted the Review Committee’s 

recommendation that the park repatriate 

the human remains to all the tribes 

listed above in Summary except the 

Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, which did 

not join the consultation until after the 

Review Committee’s December 1998 

meeting

In 2000, the human remains from the 

1934–35 Williams Cave excavations that 

were curated by the Philadelphia 

Academy of Natural Sciences were 

donated to Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park. The fragmentary human 

remains had been cataloged in 

Philadelphia as part of the 

paleontological collections and were not 

included in the December 1998 

repatriation request to the NAGPRA 

Review Committee. Based on 

documentation from the 1934–35 

excavations, it is believed that the 

fragmentary human remains represent 

some of the six individuals removed 

during the 1934–35 excavations.

In November 2000, the 

superintendent of Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park requested that the Review 

Committee recommend repatriation of 

the culturally unidentifiable human 

remains donated to the park by the 

Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

Sciences to a group of 13 Indian tribes 

that had requested the human remains 

and that demonstrated a cultural 

relationship to the region. The Review 

Committee considered the request at its 

December 2000 meeting in Nashville, 

TN, and recommended repatriation of 

the human remains to the 13 Indian 

tribes. A February 15, 2001, letter from 

the Assistant Director, Cultural 

Resources on behalf of the chair of the 

Review Committee to the 

superintendent of Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park summarized the Review 

Committee’s consideration of the park’s 

request and transmitted the Review 

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Committee’s recommendation that the 

park repatriate the human remains to 

the tribes listed above in Summary.

In 2001, an additional human bone 

was discovered in the Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park collection 

during a review of cataloged mammal 

bones. This bone was originally 

collected from Pratt Cave in 1967 and is 

believed to represent one of the 

individuals previously considered by 

the Review Committee.

Disposition of funerary objects 

associated with culturally unidentifiable 

human remains is not addressed by the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act and no associated 

funerary objects are included in this 

notice.

Determinations. Under 25 U.S.C. 

3003, Guadalupe Mountains National 

Park officials determined that the 

human remains represent the physical 

remains of 10 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Guadalupe 

Mountains National Park officials 

determined that the human remains are 

culturally unidentifiable.

Notification. Guadalupe Mountains 

National Park is responsible for sending 

copies of this notice to the Indian tribes 

listed above in Consultation.

Dated: September 28, 2004

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA program

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indians Affairs, Washington, DC, and 

Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, 

WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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 and associated funerary objects 

in the control of the U.S. Department of 

the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Washington, DC, and in the possession 

of the Milwaukee Public Museum, 

Milwaukee, WI. The human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

removed from the Navajo Indian 

Reservation.

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 and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice.

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Bureau of Indian 

Affairs and Milwaukee Public Museum 

professional staff and contract 

specialists in physical anthropology in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of 

Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, 

New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico.

In 1925, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed from the vicinity of Inscription 

House, Navajo Canyon, in Arizona, on 

the Navajo Indian Reservation by 

museum curator, Samuel A. Barrett, 

during a Milwaukee Public Museum 

expedition. No known individual was 

identified. The one associated funerary 

object is a potsherd.

On the basis of stylistic attributes, the 

associated funerary object can be 

identified as dating to circa post- A.D. 

1300, the Pueblo IV or Pueblo V period 

of Anasazi culture.

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from ruins in 

Navajo, AZ, on the Navajo Indian 

Reservation, by A.J. Newcomb, a trading 

post operator in Tohatchi, NM. Mr. 

Newcomb donated the human remains 

to the Milwaukee Public Museum in 

1925. No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present.

The human remains were removed 

from a refuse heap outside a kiva wall 

associated with ruins in Navajo, AZ, on 

the Navajo Indian Reservation. Objects 

found in the ruins but not donated to 

the Milwaukee Public Museum indicate 

that the formation of the refuse heap 

dates to circa A.D. 900–1600. The 

human remains exhibit lamboid cranial 

deformation, which is associated with 

the Pueblo II through Pueblo IV periods 

of Anasazi culture.

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing three individuals were 

removed from ‘‘Ruin #2, Silent City,’’

presumed to be located near Tohatchi, 

NM, on the Navajo Indian Reservation 

by A.J. Newcomb. Mr. Newcomb 

donated the remains to the Milwaukee 

Public Museum in 1921. No known 

individuals were identified. The one 

associated funerary object is an 

earthenware pot.

One of the individuals from the Silent 

City site was removed from a refuse 

heap outside a kiva wall associated with 

the ruins. Stylistic attributes of the pot 

identify the occupation as affiliated 

with the Anasazi culture. Stylistic 

attributes of the pot also date the burial 

of one of the other individuals to circa 

A.D. 900–1300, Pueblo II-III period of 

the archeologically defined Anasazi 

culture.

Based on cranial morphology, dental 

traits, and associated funerary objects, 

the human remains are identified as 

Native American. Consultation evidence 

provided by the Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

indicates that Navajo Canyon in 

Arizona, and Navajo, AZ, both on the 

Navajo Indian Reservation, are part of 

the aboriginal territory of the Hopi 

culture, despite current occupation by 

the Navajo Nation, Arizona, New 

Mexico and Utah. Consultation 

evidence provided by representatives of 

the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of 

Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, 

New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico indicates that 

these groups are descended from 

Anasazi people living in the vicinity of 

the present-day Navajo Indian 

Reservation.

Officials of the Bureau of Indians 

Affairs and the Milwaukee Public 

Museum have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the 

human remains described above 

represent the physical remains of at 

least five individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Bureau of Indian Affairs and Milwaukee 

Public Museum also have determined 

that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), 

the two objects 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. Lastly, 

officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

and Milwaukee Public Museum 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 

associated funerary objects and the Hopi 

Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; 

and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico.

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Dr. Alex Barker, Anthropology 

Section Head, Milwaukee Public 

Museum, 800 West Wells Street, 

Milwaukee, WI 53233, telephone (414) 

278–2786, before December 23, 2004. 

Repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the Hopi