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described above represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

Hawaiian ancestry. Officials of the 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University 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 Hawaiian human remains 

and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization 

that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Sabah Randhawa, 

Executive Vice President and Provost, 

President’s Office, Oregon State 

University, 600 Kerr Administration 

Building, Corvallis, OR 97331, 

telephone (541) 737–8260, before 

September 22, 2008. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Office of 

Hawaiian Affairs may proceed after that 

date if no additional claimants come 

forward. 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University is responsible for notifying 

the Alapa ‘I Hanapi, Hawai‘i Island 

Burial Council, Hui Malama I Na 

Kupuna O Hawai‘i Nei, Kauai/Niihau 

Island Burial Council, Maui/Lanai 

Island Burial Council, Molokai Island 

Burial Council, O’ahu Burial 

Committee, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 

and Van Horn Diamond ‘Ohana that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: July 14, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–19310 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

McWane Science Center, Birmingham, 

AL 

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 possession of the McWane 

Science Center, Birmingham, AL. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from Yell County, 

AR. 

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 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 the McWane 

Science Center’s professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma. 

In the early 1900s, human remain 

representing the minimum of one 

individual were removed from the 

Carden Bottoms site (3YE14) in Yell 

County, AR. Sometime between 1979 

and 1985, G.E. Pilquist, a collector from 

Dardanelle, AR, donated the human 

remains to the Red Mountain Museum, 

Birmingham, AL. In 1994, the Red 

Mountain Museum merged with the 

Discovery Place under the name 

Discovery 2000 Inc., and now operates 

as McWane Science Center. No known 

individual was identified. The five 

associated funerary objects are three 

stone beads, one small copper bracelet, 

and one metal cone. 

Museum records state that the human 

remains were recovered from a grave. 

Diagnostic artifacts indicate that the 

human remains were probably buried 

after European contact. Physical 

examination reveals the skeletal remains 

to be those of a child, and burial context 

associates the human remains with 

Native American populations. 

Archeological evidence indicates a 

continuity of the site from A.D. 1350 

into the early historic period. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects may be a late component of the 

Carden Bottoms complex, common 

along the Lower Arkansas River, 

including Yell County. The Quapaw 

Tribe dominated that area when 

sustained European occupation of the 

lower Arkansas River began in the mid 

to late 1600s. In 1818, the Quapaw 

ceded the area south of the Arkansas 

River, including what is now Yell 

County, to the United States. Based on 

the geographic evidence and the date 

attributed to the human remains, the 

human remains are most likely 

culturally affiliated to the Quapaw Tribe 

of Indians, Oklahoma. In addition, the 

Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma has 

previously repatriated human remains 

from the Carden Bottoms site (3YE14). 

Unassociated funerary objects removed 

from the Carden Bottoms site are 

described in an accompanying Notice of 

Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items. 

Officials of McWane Science Center 

have determined that, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of McWane 

Science Center also have determined 

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

the five 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 and are 

believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. Lastly, officials of McWane 

Science Center 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 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Jun Ebersole, Collections 

Manager, McWane Science Center, 200 

19th St. N, Birmingham, AL 35203, 

telephone (205) 714–8347, before 

September 22, 2008. Repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, 

Oklahoma may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The McWane Science Center is 

responsible for notifying the Quapaw 

Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: July 14, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–19320 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Museum of Anthropology, Washington 

State University, Pullman, WA; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

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 possession of the Museum of 

Anthropology, Washington State 

University, Pullman, WA. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Grays Harbor 

County, WA. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 163 / Thursday, August 21, 2008 / Notices 49485 

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 the Museum of 

Anthropology, Washington State 

University professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis 

Reservation, Washington. 

This notice is an addition to the 

minimum number of individuals 

removed from the Minard site (45–GH–

15) in Grays Harbor County, WA, which 

were previously described in a Notice of 

Inventory Completion published in the 

Federal Register of May 17, 2007 (FR 

Doc. E7–9455, pages 27845–27846). In 

January of 2008, Dr. Lourdes DeLeon, a 

physical anthropologist at Central 

Washington University, prepared a 

description of a number of sets of 

human remains known as the ‘‘Former 

Teaching Collection at Washington State 

University.’’ During the course of this 

work she identified the remains of two 

individuals who, based on the color of 

the bone, were believed to have been 

buried in a shell midden. Examination 

of photographs taken during the burial 

excavations done at the Minard site 

indicated that these were human 

remains formerly determined to be 

missing from the Minard collection. 

In the Federal Register notice of May 

17, 2007, paragraph 4 is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraphs: 

In 1969 and 1970, human remains 

representing a minimum of 11 

individuals were removed from the 

Minard site (45–GH–15) in Grays Harbor 

County, WA, by Richard Daugherty, an 

employee, and Tom E. Roll, a graduate 

student, of Washington State University. 

The excavations were conducted under 

research funds allocated by the 

Washington State Legislature. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

82 associated funerary objects are 2 

nipple topped mauls, 1 ground slate 

knife, 1 ground stone club, 1 necklace 

of rolled copped and dentalium section 

beads, 1 straight adze with a whale bone 

handle and metal blade, 1 knife or small 

adze-chisel with a bone handle and 

metal blade, 1 metal chisel, 1 metal awl, 

1 lot of metal fragments from wood 

working tools, 5 lots of nails, 2 lots of 

glass beads, 2 lots of tin can fragments, 

5 lots of unidentified metal fragments, 2 

spoons, 3 lots of wood fragments, 14 

thimbles on a string, 1 lot of 

unidentified plant material, and 38 lots 

of dishes and dish fragments. 

In the Federal Register notice of May 

17, 2007, paragraph 6 is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraph: 

Officials of the Museum of 

Anthropology, Washington State 

University have determined that, 

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

human remains described above 

represent the physical remains of 11 

individuals of Native American 

ancestry. Officials of the Museum of 

Anthropology, Washington State 

University also have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 82 

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 

Museum of Anthropology, Washington 

State University 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 

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis 

Reservation, Washington. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary items should 

contact Mary Collins, Director of the 

Museum of Anthropology, Washington 

State University, P.O. Box 62291, 

Pullman, WA 99164–4910, telephone 

(509) 335–4314, before September 22, 

2008. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Confederated Tribes of the 

Chehalis Reservation, Washington may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Museum of Anthropology, 

Washington State University is 

responsible for notifying the 

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis 

Reservation, Washington that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: July 28, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–19308 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, San Juan 

National Forest, Durango, CO, and 

University of Denver Department of 

Anthropology and Museum of 

Anthropology, Denver, CO; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

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 in the control of the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, San Juan 

National Forest, Durango, CO, and in 

the possession of the University of 

Denver Department of Anthropology 

and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, 

CO. The human remains were removed 

from Dolores County, CO. 

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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

This notice corrects the Notice of 

Inventory Completion published by the 

University of Denver Department of 

Anthropology and Museum of 

Anthropology in the Federal Register of 

October 9, 2001, (FR Doc. 01–25140; 

pages 51472–51474). This notice 

corrects the controller of the human 

remains, per 43 CFR 10.2 (a)(3)(ii), and 

the cultural affiliation of the human 

remains, per 43 CFR 10.14 (c), of one 

individual (catalog numbers DU6015 

and DU 6066). After publication, a 

review of the records associated with 

the human remains indicated that the 

human remains had been removed from 

lands administered by the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, San Juan 

National Forest, Durango, CO. 

Therefore, the San Juan National Forest 

has the control of the human remains 

for the purposes of NAGPRA. An overall 

evaluation of the totality of the 

circumstances and evidence pertaining 

to the human remains by the officials of 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture, San 

Juan National Forest indicate that no 

cultural affiliation can be determined by 

the preponderance of the evidence. 

Therefore, the human remains have 

been determined to be culturally 

unidentifiable. 

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