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funerary objects to the Little Traverse 

Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan 

may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

The Logan Museum of Anthropology 

is responsible for notifying the Grand 

Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa 

Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of 

Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little 

Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 

Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Burt Lake Band of Ottawa & Chippewa 

Indians, a non-federally recognized 

Indian group; and Grand River Bands of 

Ottawa Indians, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group, that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: August 14, 2008. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–20098 Filed 8–28–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: New York State Museum, 

Albany, NY 

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 New York State 

Museum, Albany, NY, 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 two cultural items are one small 

copper kettle and one silver wristband. 

The silver wristband bears the maker’s 

mark ‘‘IS.’’

In 1956, the New York State Museum 

purchased the kettle and wristband from 

the Logan Museum of Anthropology, 

Beloit College, WI. The cultural items 

were part of a larger collection made by 

Albert Green Heath who acquired the 

kettle and wristband from an individual 

named Lowell Lamkin between 1910 

and 1916. 

The Heath collection records indicate 

the kettle and wristband were found in 

a grave or graves in ‘‘Emmet County, 

Michigan.’’ The New York State 

Museum is not in possession of the 

human remains associated with the 

items. Therefore, based on museum 

records, the kettle and wristband are 

reasonably believed to be unassociated 

funerary objects. The style of the kettle 

and wristband date to the post-Contact 

period and are typical of metal trade 

items from the mid to late 18th century. 

Heath collection records identify the 

tribal identification of the items as 

Ottawa. Historical and traditional 

evidence indicates Ottawa people 

occupied Emmet County throughout the 

18th century. The Ottawa people are 

also called Odawa. Descendants of the 

Odawa in Emmet County are members 

of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa 

and Chippewa Indians, Michigan, and 

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 

Indians, Michigan. 

Officials of the New York State 

Museum have determined that, 

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

two 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 the New York 

State Museum 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 Grand Traverse Band of 

Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, 

Michigan, and Little Traverse Bay Bands 

of Odawa Indians, Michigan. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Lisa Anderson, 

NAGPRA Coordinator, New York State 

Museum, 3122 Cultural Education 

Center, Albany, NY 12230, telephone 

(518) 486–2020, before September 29, 

2008. Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the Little Traverse 

Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan, 

may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

New York State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Grand 

Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa 

Indians, Michigan, and Little Traverse 

Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: August 4, 2008. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–20103 Filed 8–28–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service, San Juan Island 

National Historical Park, Friday Harbor, 

WA and Thomas Burke Memorial 

Washington State Museum, University 

of Washington, Seattle, WA 

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 Thomas Burke 

Memorial Washington State Museum 

(Burke Museum) University of 

Washington, Seattle, WA, and in the 

control of the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, San Juan Island National 

Historical Park, Friday Harbor, WA, 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 superintendent, San Juan Island 

National Historical Park. 

In 1946 and 1947, human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

recovered during legally authorized 

excavations by University of 

Washington archeologist Arden King at 

the Cattle Point Site (45–SJ–01) on San 

Juan Island. Cattle Point is within the 

American Camp portion of San Juan 

Island National Historical Park on the 

southern part of San Juan Island. The 

funerary objects were transferred to the 

Burke Museum and later accessioned by 

the National Park Service. The 

whereabouts of the human remains is 

not known. The 249 unassociated 

funerary objects are 103 basalt flakes, 60 

non-human mammalian bone fragments, 

61 shell fragments, 2 bags of fish bones, 

11 charcoal samples, 1 rock, 2 sediment 

samples, 1 piece of obsidian, 1 fire 

cracked cobble, 1 quartz flake, 1 piece 

of schist, 2 pieces of slate, 1 pebble, 1 

sea urchin spine, and 1 sea lion 

humerus. 

In 1970 and 1972, authorized 

excavations of a shell midden took place 

at the English Camp Site (45–SJ–24) on 

San Juan Island and within the English 

Camp portion of San Juan Island 

National Historical Park during a 

University of Idaho field school directed 

by Dr. Roderick Sprague. 

Four objects were recovered in 1970 

from the same stratum in which a burial 

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