11462 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 48 / Wednesday, March 12, 1997 / Notices

Notice of Inventory Completion for

Native American Human Remains from

Nebraska in the Possession of The

Burke Museum, University of

Washington, Seattle, WA

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

Notice is hereby given in accordance

with provisions of the Native American

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d), of the

completion of an inventory of human

remains in the possession of The Burke

Museum, University of Washington,

Seattle, WA.

A detailed assessment of the human

remains was made by the Burke

Museum professional staff in

consultation with representatives of the

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca

Tribe of Oklahoma.

In 1947, human remains representing

one individual were donated to the

Burke Museum by Mrs. Charles C.

Moore. No known individuals were

identified. No associated funerary

objects are present. According to the

accession information, these human

remains were collected in 1887 by

students of Miss Sare E. Ober in

Palisade, Hitchcock County, NE.

In 1964, human remains representing

two individuals were donated to the

Burke Museum by Dr. G.E. Deer. No

known individuals were identified. No

associated funerary objects are present.

Accession information indicates these

remains were removed from Gering,

Scottsbluff County, NE by Mr. Ted B.

Miller, Jr.

Consultation evidence, including oral

history and traditional data of annual

activities and uses of land areas

surrounding Gering and Palisade,

Nebraska have been presented by

representatives of the Ponca Tribe of

Nebraska.

Based on the above mentioned

information, officials of the Burke

Museum have determined that,

pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the

human remains listed above represent

the physical remains of three

individuals of Native American

ancestry. Officials of the Burke Museum

have determined that, pursuant to 25

U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship

of shared group identity which can be

reasonably traced between these Native

American human remains and the

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and the Ponca

Tribe of Oklahoma.

This notice has been sent to officials

of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe of

Oklahoma, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe,

Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes,

Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Oglala Sioux

Tribe, Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma,

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Ponca Tribe of

Oklahoma, Three Affiliated Tribes, and

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Representatives of any other Indian tribe

that believes itself to be culturally

affiliated with these human remains

should contact Dr. James Nason, Chair

of the Repatriation Committee, Burke

Museum, Box 353010, University of

Washington, Seattle, WA 98195;

telephone: (206) 543–9680, before April

11, 1997. Repatriation of the human

remains to the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

may begin after that date if no

additional claimants come forward.

The National Park Service is not

responsible for the determinations

within this notice.

Dated: March 7, 1997.

Francis P. McManamon,

Departmental Consulting Archeologist,

Manager, Archeology and Ethnography

Program.

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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural

Items from Arizona in the Possession

of the Peabody Museum of

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard

University, Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

Notice is hereby given under the

Native American Graves Protection and

Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3005(a)(2),

of the intent to repatriate a cultural item

in the possession of the Peabody

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,

which meets the definition of ‘‘cultural

patrimony’’ under Section 2 of the Act.

The cultural items are 20 yellow

wooden sunflowers, five white wooden

sunflowers, two leather sunflowers, 26

wooden cones, and one wooden bird.

In 1915, Mr. Kidder and Mr. Guernsey

excavated these cultural items from

Sunflower Cave, Marsh Pass, AZ during

an expedition sponsored by the Peabody

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

These items were accessioned into the

Museum’s collections the same year.

Excavation records and

anthropological sources indicate these

items were likely deposited in

Sunflower Cave during the Pueblo I

period (750–975 AD). Consultation

evidence presented by representatives of

the Hopi Tribe on behalf of the Flute

Clan practices and have ongoing

historical, traditional, and cultural

importance central to the Flute Clan and

could not have been alienated by any

individual.

Officials of the Peabody Museum of

Archaeology and Ethnology have

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.

3001(3)(D), these 54 cultural items have

ongoing historical, traditional, and

cultural importance central to the

culture itself, and could not have been

alienated, appropriated, or conveyed by

any individual. Officials of the Peabody

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

have also determined that, pursuant to

25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship

of shared group identity which can be

reasonably traced between these items

and the Flute Clan of Walpi, First Mesa,

of the Hopi Tribe.

This notice has been sent to officials

of the Hopi Tribe. Representatives of

any other Indian tribe that believes itself

to be culturally affiliated with these

objects should contact Mrs. Barbara

Isaac, Assistant Director, Peabody

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,

11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138,

telephone (617) 495–2254 before April

11, 1997. Repatriation of these objects to

the Hopi Tribe on behalf of the Flute

Clan may begin after that date if no

additional claimants come forward.

Dated: March 7, 1997.

Francis P. McManamon,

Departmental Consulting Archeologist,

Manager, Archeology and Ethnography

Program.

[FR Doc. 97–6183 Filed 3–11–97; 8:45 am]

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