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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 227 (Monday, November 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 92972-92973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27510]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039105; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: The Kikuchi Center at 
Kaua[revaps]i Community College, L[imacr]hu[revaps]e, HI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i 
Community College has completed an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after December 26, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Jason Ford, The Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community 
College, 3-1901 Kaumuali[revaps]i Highway, L[imacr]hu[revaps]e, HI 
96766, telephone (808) 245-8236, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College, and additional 
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results 
of consultation, can be found in its inventory or related records. The 
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this 
notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. The five associated funerary objects are four bone 
artifacts and one bone fish hook. Item: Iwi Kupuna (human remains), 
including modified bone fragments, and associated funerary objects. 
Site Name: 14-115 II Barber's Point, Kalaeloa, Honouliuli, [revaps]Ewa, 
O[revaps]ahu Geographical Location: Kalaeloa, Honouliuli, [revaps]Ewa, 
O[revaps]ahu. Collection History: The Kikuchi Center is an archive 
curating the work of Dr. William Kikuchi. Dr. Kikuchi co-founded the 
Archaeology Research Center of Hawaii, ARCH, with Francis Ching, Jr. He 
inherited a collection of ARCH project materials, including ARCH 
project 14-115 II. This project was an intensive survey and excavation 
for the harbor expansion at Barber's Point for the State of 
Hawai[revaps]i and the U.S. Army Corps. Barber's Point is Kalaeloa, 
located in the ahupua[revaps]a Honouliuli, moku of [revaps]Ewa. These 
materials were excavated in 1980 and the founding of the Kikuchi Center 
and processing of these materials began in September 2022. In March of 
2024, an osteologist analyzed the bones in the collection and 
positively identified the modified humerus as human. These bones are 
associated with Native Hawaiian sites and cultural layers. The 76 
modified bones listed here are unidentifiable due to their size and 
state of modification, but because they were associated with the 
positively identified iwi kupuna, are being listed for consultation and 
repatriation, and treated as human. Due to the possibility of the bone 
artifacts also being human and their close association with the 
positively identified bone, they are also listed as associated burial 
objects. Some bones may be coated in a clear lacquer with individual 
artifact numbers that are now dissociated from data.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects described in this notice. Kalaeloa Heritage and Legacy 
Foundation has offered their burial vault and to enact reinterment 
protocols, if required, and defer consultation to include other Native 
Hawaiian organizations.

Determinations

    The Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native Hawaiian ancestry. 
Modified bone and bone fragments in associated with positively 
identified iwi kupuna are also being offered for repatriation.
     The five objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony.
     There is a connection between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Kalaeloa 
Heritage and Legacy Foundation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the

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authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. 
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after December 
26, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the 
Kikuchi Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College must determine the 
most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects are 
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Kikuchi 
Center at Kaua[revaps]i Community College is responsible for sending a 
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: November 18, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-27510 Filed 11-22-24; 8:45 am]
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