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Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

object 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 

unassociated funerary object to the 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University is responsible for notifying 

the Confederated Tribes and Bands of 

the Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and 

Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde 

Community of Oregon; Coquille Tribe of 

Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the 

Siletz Reservation, Oregon; Cowlitz 

Indian Tribe, Washington; Hawai‘i 

Island Burial Council; Hoh Indian Tribe 

of the Hoh Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 

O Hawai‘i Nei; Jamestown S’Klallam 

Tribe of Washington; Karuk Tribe of 

California; Kauai/Niihau Island Burial 

Council; Lower Elwha Tribal 

Community of the Lower Elwha 

Reservation, Washington; Lower 

Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; 

Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, 

Washington; Makah Indian Tribe of the 

Makah Indian Reservation, Washington; 

Maui/Lanai Island Burial Council; 

Molokai Island Burial Council; O’ahu 

Burial Committee; Office of Hawaiian 

Affairs; Quileute Tribe of the Quileute 

Reservation, Washington; Quartz Valley 

Indian Community of the Quartz Valley 

Reservation of California; Quinault 

Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, 

Washington; Shoalwater Bay Tribe of 

the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Skokomish Indian Tribe of 

the Skokomish Reservation, 

Washington; Smith River Rancheria, 

California; Swinomish Indians of the 

Swinomish Reservation, Washington; 

Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip 

Reservation, Washington; and Yurok 

Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, 

California that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 14, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University, Corvallis, OR 

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. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 

that meet the definition of 

‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ under 

25 U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

The 17 cultural items are 1 club, 1 

beaded bottle, 9 utility baskets, 1 gobletshaped basket, 1 small bag, 1 mounted 

arrow point, 1 porcupine quill 

headband, 1 string of beads, and 1 

beaded sash. 

The Museum of Oregon Country, 

Oregon Agricultural College was 

renamed the John B. Horner Museum of 

the Oregon Country in 1936, and 

became commonly known as the Horner 

Museum. The Oregon Agricultural 

College was renamed the Oregon State 

College in 1937, and became Oregon 

State University in 1962. The Horner 

Museum closed in 1995. Currently, 

cultural items from the Horner Museum 

are referred to as the Horner Collection, 

which is owned by, and in the 

possession of, Oregon State University. 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University professional staff consulted 

with representatives of the Alturas 

Indian Rancheria, California; 

Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower 

Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians of 

Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the 

Grand Ronde Community of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon; Pit River Tribe, 

California (includes XL Ranch, Big 

Bend, Likely, Lookout, Montgomery 

Creek and Roaring Creek Rancherias); 

Redding Rancheria, California; Smith 

River Rancheria, California; and Yurok 

Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, 

California. The Bear River Band of the 

Rohnerville Rancheria, California; Big 

Lagoon Rancheria, California; Blue Lake 

Rancheria, California; Cachil DeHe Band 

of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian 

Community of the Colusa Rancheria, 

California; Cedarville Rancheria, 

California; Cher-Ae Heights Indian 

Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, 

California; Cortina Indian Rancheria of 

Wintu Indians of California; Fort 

Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort 

Bidwell Reservation of California; Elk 

Valley Rancheria, California; Grindstone 

Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki 

Indians of California; Hoopa Valley 

Tribe, California; Modoc Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Quartz Valley Indian 

Community of the Quartz Valley 

Reservation of California; Resighini 

Rancheria, California; Round Valley 

Indian Tribes of the Round Valley 

Reservation, California; Rumsey Indian 

Rancheria of Wintun Indians of 

California; and Susanville Indian 

Rancheria, California were notified of 

the items in this notice, but chose not 

to participate in the consultation. 

At an unknown date, a club was taken 

from an unknown site by an unknown 

person. In 1933, the club was brought to 

the Horner Museum by J.G. Crawford. 

The club was accessioned into the 

Horner Museum in 1958. Tribal 

representatives of the Redding 

Rancheria, California have identified 

this item as Pit River in cultural 

affiliation and as an item that would 

typically have been buried with the 

owner. Horner Collection has no 

documentation that the item was 

removed from a burial site, however, the 

donor, Mr. J. G. Crawford, has donated 

other items known to have come from 

graves and mounds to the Horner 

Museum and has collected from 

traditional Wintu territy. Based on the 

history of the collector and consultation 

evidence, officials of the Horner 

Collection, Oregon State University 

reasonably believe the cultural item to 

be an unassociated funerary object. 

At an unknown date, a beaded bottle 

was obtained from an unknown person 

at Scott Bar, Siskiyou County, CA, by 

J.E. Barrett. At an unknown date, three 

utility baskets were taken from 

McCloud, CA, by J.E. Barrett. At an 

unknown date and from an unknown 

location, a utility basket made by Pit 

River Indians was collected by J.E. 

Barrett. At an unknown date, two 

baskets were taken from an unknown 

area by J.E. Barrett. Museum records 

identify these baskets as Pit River 

Indian. Mrs. J. E. Barrett loaned the 

beaded bottle, the four utility baskets, 

and two Pit River Indian baskets to the 

museum on February 28, 1927. On 

November 30, 1972, Mrs. Barrett’s 

surviving daughter-in-law, Mrs. 

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Edmond Barrett, donated the cultural 

items to the Oregon State University 

Museum. Tribal representatives of the 

Redding Rancheria, California have 

identified these cultural items as Pit 

River in cultural affiliation and as items 

that would typically have been buried 

with the owner. Horner Collection has 

no documentation that the items were 

removed from burial sites. However, Mr. 

J.E Barrett has donated other items 

known to have come from graves and 

mounds to the Horner Museum and to 

have collected from traditional Wintu 

territory. Based on the history of the 

collector and consultation, officials of 

the Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University reasonably believe the 

cultural items to be unassociated 

funerary objects. The seven 

unassociated funerary objects are one 

beaded bottle, the four utility baskets, 

and two Pit River Indian baskets. 

In January 1946, Mrs. Nora L. Bingley 

loaned a mounted arrow point to the 

Oregon State University Museum. The 

Horner Collection has no provenience 

for this item. After 25 years, the Horner 

Museum considered this cultural item 

to be abandoned and assumed control 

because there was no additional contact 

from Mrs. Bingley. Tribal 

representatives of the Redding 

Rancheria, California have identified 

this item as Pit River in cultural 

affiliation and as an item that would 

typically have been buried with the 

owner. Based on consultation, officials 

of the Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University reasonably believe the 

cultural item to be an unassociated 

funerary object. 

On June 6, 1984, Mrs. Eileen Waring 

Dew donated two gathering baskets 

removed from the Pit River Drainage 

area in southern Oregon and northern 

California. The donor indicates that the 

baskets were from her parents’

collection and were made by Pit River 

Indians between 1880 and 1900. Tribal 

representatives of the Redding 

Rancheria, California have identified 

these items as Pit River in cultural 

affiliation, are patrimonial in design, 

and would have typically been buried 

with the owner. Based on the 

consultation evidence, officials of the 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University reasonably believe the 

cultural items are unassociated funerary 

objects. 

On December 5, 1933, Mrs. S.C. Dyer 

donated a porcupine quill headband to 

the Oregon State University Museum. 

The Horner Collection has no 

provenience for this item. Tribal 

representatives of the Redding 

Rancheria, California have identified 

this headband as Pit River in cultural 

affiliation and as a ceremonial item. 

This is an item that would typically 

have been buried with the owner. The 

donor was known to collect from graves 

or mounds. Based on the history of the 

collector and consultation evidence, 

officials of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University reasonably 

believe the cultural item to be an 

unassociated funerary object. 

On June 8, 1973, the C.B Kennedy 

family and Ruth Kennedy, wife of Dr. 

N.L. Tartar, donated two baskets, a 

string of beads, and a sash to the Oregon 

State University Museum. The Horner 

collection does not have a provenience 

for these items. Tribal representatives of 

the Redding Rancheria, California have 

identified these items as Pit River in 

cultural affiliation and as items that 

would typically have been buried with 

the owner. Based on the consultation 

evidence, officials of the Horner 

Collection, Oregon State University 

reasonably believe the cultural items are 

unassociated funerary objects. 

A small bag with unknown 

provenience and an unknown donor 

was inventoried in the Horner 

Collection. Tribal representatives of the 

Redding Rancheria, California have 

identified the bag as Pit River in cultural 

affiliation and as an item that typically 

would have been buried with the owner. 

The curator of the Portland Art Museum 

also identified the bag as Pit River in 

cultural affiliation. Based on 

consultation evidence, officials of the 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University reasonably believe the 

cultural item to be an unassociated 

funerary object. 

Wintu traditional territory included 

what are now known as Trinity, Shasta, 

Siskiyou and Tehama Counties; from 

Sacramento River to high divide 

between Trinity and Scott Rivers to 

Black Butte and Mt. Shasta, north of 

Black Fox Mountain. Yana traditional 

territory includes the upper Sacramento 

River Valley and foothills due east; 

south to Rock Creek and encompassed 

the upper Deer Creek drainage through 

the Battle, Cow, and Montgomery Creek 

drainages. Traditional territory for the 

eleven bands of Achumawi or Pit River 

Indians in northeastern California was 

roughly from Mount Shasta and Lassen 

Peak to the Warner Range. Descendants 

of the Wintu, Achumawi, and Yana are 

members of the Pit River Tribe, 

California and Redding Rancheria, 

California. 

Officials of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University have 

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

3001 (3)(B), the 17 cultural items 

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. 

Officials of Horner Collection, Oregon 

State University also 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 unassociated funerary 

objects and the Pit River Tribe, 

California and Redding Rancheria, 

California. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects 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 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Redding Rancheria, California may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University is responsible for notifying 

the Alturas Indian Rancheria, California; 

Bear River Band of the Rohnerville 

Rancheria, California; Big Lagoon 

Rancheria, California; Big Valley Band 

of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley 

Rancheria, California; Blue Lake 

Rancheria, California; Bridgeport Paiute 

Indian Colony of California; Cachil 

DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the 

Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa 

Rancheria, California; Cahto Indian 

Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria, 

California; Cedarville Rancheria, 

California; Cher-Ae Heights Indian 

Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, 

California; Cloverdale Rancheria of 

Pomo Indians of California; 

Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower 

Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians of 

Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the 

Grand Ronde Community of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon; Cortina Indian 

Rancheria of Wintu Indians of 

California; Coyote Valley Band of Pomo 

Indians of California; Dry Creek 

Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California; 

Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of 

the Sulphur Bank Rancheria, California; 

Elk Valley Rancheria, California; Fort 

Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort 

Bidwell Reservation of California; 

Grindstone Indian Rancheria of WintunWailaki Indians of California; Guidiville 

Rancheria of California; Hoopa Valley 

Tribe, California; Hopland Band of 

Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria, 

California; Kashia Band of Pomo Indians 

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of Stewarts Point Rancheria, California; 

Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon; Lytton 

Rancheria of California; Manchester 

Band of Pomo Indians of the 

Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria, 

California; Middletown Rancheria of 

Pomo Indians of California; Modoc 

Tribe of Oklahoma; Pinoleville Pomo 

Nation, California; Pit River Tribe, 

California; Potter Valley Tribe, 

California; Quartz Valley Indian 

Community of the Quartz Valley 

Reservation of California; Redding 

Rancheria, California; Redwood Valley 

Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California; 

Resighini Rancheria, California; 

Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of 

California; Round Valley Indian Tribes 

of the Round Valley Reservation, 

California; Rumsey Indian Rancheria of 

Wintun Indians of California; Scotts 

Valley Band of Pomo Indians of 

California; Sherwood Valley Rancheria 

of Pomo Indians of California; Smith 

River Rancheria, California; Susanville 

Indian Rancheria, California; Upper 

Lake Band of Pomo Indians of Upper 

Lake Rancheria of California; Utu Utu 

Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton 

Paiute Reservation, California; and 

Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, 

California that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 14, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–19312 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University, Corvallis, OR 

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. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 

that meets the definition of 

‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ or 

‘‘sacred objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

The 19 cultural items are 18 

unassociated funerary objects and 1 

sacred object. The 18 unassociated 

funerary objects are 3 wedges, 1 club or 

pestle, 7 pestles, 1 pestle fragment, 1 

copper pendant, 1 ground steatite 

tubular pipe, 1 mano, 2 mauls, and 1 

unknown lithic item. The one sacred 

object is a blue schist club in the shape 

of a paddle. 

The Museum of Oregon Country, 

Oregon Agricultural College was 

renamed the John B. Horner Museum of 

the Oregon Country in 1936, and 

became commonly known as the Horner 

Museum. The Oregon Agricultural 

College was renamed the Oregon State 

College in 1937, and became Oregon 

State University in 1962. The Horner 

Museum closed in 1995. Currently, 

cultural items from the Horner Museum 

are referred to as the Horner Collection, 

which is owned by, and in the 

possession of, Oregon State University. 

The Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University professional staff consulted 

with representatives of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and 

Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde 

Community of Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon; 

Coquille Tribe of Oregon; Karuk Tribe of 

California; Smith River Rancheria, 

California; and Yurok Tribe of the Yurok 

Reservation, California. The 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis 

Reservation, Washington; Cowlitz 

Indian Tribe, Washington; Hawai‘i 

Island Burial Council; Hoh Indian Tribe 

of the Hoh Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 

O Hawai‘i Nei; Jamestown S’Klallam 

Tribe of Washington; Kauai/Niihau 

Island Burial Council; Lower Elwha 

Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha 

Reservation, Washington; Lummi Tribe 

of the Lummi Reservation, Washington; 

Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian 

Reservation, Washington; Maui/Lanai 

Island Burial Council; Molokai Island 

Burial Council; O’ahu Burial 

Committee; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; 

Quartz Valley Indian Community of the 

Quartz Valley Reservation of California; 

Quileute Tribe of the Quileute 

Reservation, Washington; Quinault 

Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, 

Washington; Shoalwater Bay Tribe of 

the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Skokomish Indian Tribe of 

the Skokomish Reservation, 

Washington; Swinomish Indians of the 

Swinomish Reservation, Washington; 

and Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip 

Reservation, Washington were informed 

of items in this claim, but did not 

participate in the consultations. 

At an unknown date, a blue schist 

club in the shape of a paddle was 

removed from an unknown location in 

Illahee, Curry County, OR, by an 

unknown person. In 1940, the club was 

brought to the Horner Museum by Mrs. 

C.H. Pettinger. In 1965, the club was 

accessioned into the Horner Collection. 

During consultation, a representative 

of the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon, identified the 

paddle as a ceremonial paddle for 

stirring hot stones used to cook acorns 

in cooking baskets for feasts and that it 

is needed for ceremonies that continue 

to be practiced today. There are other 

known examples of stone paddles from 

this same area. Illahe is in the divide 

between Chasta Costa (Athabaskan) and 

Takelma territory along the Rogue River. 

The Illahe area is primarily considered 

to be Chasta Costa. The Chasta Costa 

people were brought to the Siletz 

reservation in 1856. The Handbook of 

American Indians North of Mexico Part 

I (ed. Fredrick Webb Hodge, 1912), 

states that the Chasta Costa were an 

Athabaskan group living mostly on the 

north bank of the Rogue River from its 

junction with the Illinois River 

upstream nearly to the mouth of the 

Applegate River and that the Chasta 

Costa were taken to the Siletz 

reservation in 1856. Museum records 

and tribal representatives agree that this 

object is culturally affiliated with the 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon and that the paddle 

is a sacred item needed for use in 

traditional ceremonies that continue to 

be practiced today. 

At an unknown date, cultural items 

were removed from an unknown site 

near Pistol River, Curry County, OR. In 

1970, Mrs. Dorothy Timeus donated the 

cultural items to the museum. 

According to Mrs. Timeus, the cultural 

objects were found in the sand dunes 

near the Pistol River. It is unknown if 

the cultural objects were removed by 

Mrs. Timeus. The Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University has no evidence 

the cultural items were ever buried with 

any individual. However, Mrs. Timeus 

is known to have collected human 

remains and cultural items from burials 

and mounds. Based on consultation and 

museum records, the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University has identified 

these cultural items as unassociated 

funerary objects. The 11 unassociated 

funerary objects are 6 pestles, 1 pestle 

fragment, 1 mano, 2 mauls, and 1 

unknown lithic. 

A letter written by Mr. Harmon 

Timeus, Mrs. Timeus’ son, states, ‘‘I 

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