[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 86 (Thursday, May 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19635-19636]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10959]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects from Alaska in the Possession of the 
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

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    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 and 
associated funerary objects from Alaska in the Possession of the Hood 
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the museums 
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Tetlin 
Native Corporation.

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    The human remains and associated funerary objects include three 
bone fragments and thirty five beads. Hood Museum records indicate that 
these items were collected from ``an old grave'' on the edge of Tetlin 
Village by Robert A. McKennan. No known individuals were identified.
    All of the items described above were collected by the 
anthropologist Robert A. McKennan in 1929-30 from Tetlin Village, 
Alaska. McKennan describes the excavation of these remains and funerary 
objects on page 146 of his 1959 monograph The Upper Tanana Indians 
(Yale University Publications in Anthropology, #55). He attributes the 
burial to the post 1870 period based on the position of the body and 
the artifacts associated with the burial and the location of the grave 
site.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Hood 
Museum of Art have determined, in consultation with representatives of 
the Tetlin Native Corporation, that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), 
the human remains listed above represent the physical remains of one 
individual of Native American ancestry. Officials of the Hood Museum of 
Art have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 
thirty five objects listed 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 
Hood Museum of Art 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 
associated funerary objects and the Tanana of Tetlin Village, Alaska.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Tetlin Native 
Corporation and the Tanana Chiefs Conference. Representatives of any 
other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated 
with these human remains and associated funerary objects should contact 
Kellen G. Haak, Registrar and repatriation Coordinator, Hood Museum of 
Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755; telephone: (603) 646-3109, 
before June 3, 1996. Repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Tetlin Native Corporation may begin after that 
date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: April 26, 1996
Francis P. McManamon
Departmental Consulting Archeologist
Chief, Archeology and Ethnography Program
[FR Doc. 96-10959 Filed 5-1-96; 8:45 am]
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