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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23749; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, 

DC, and Arizona State Museum, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and 

Arizona State Museum, University of 

Arizona, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, have 

determined that the cultural items listed 

in this notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to the 

Bureau of Indian Affairs. If no 

additional claimants come forward, 

transfer of control of the cultural items 

to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, 

or Native Hawaiian organizations stated 

in this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the 

address in this notice by September 27, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 

Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– 

6343, email anna.pardo@bia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in 

the physical custody of the Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ (ASM) 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 Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

In the years 1963 through 1977, 2,542 

cultural items were removed from the 

Grasshopper Pueblo site AZ 

P:14:1(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ. 

The items were removed during legally 

authorized excavations conducted by 

the University of Arizona Archeological 

Field School. Archeological collections 

from the site were brought to the 

museum at the end of each field season. 

The 2,542 unassociated funerary objects 

are 179 animal bones, 6 bone awls, 1 

botanical specimen, 13 ceramic bowls, 

12 ceramic jars, 1,677 ceramic sherds, 

19 ceramic vessels, 16 ceramic vessel 

fragments, 8 chipped stone cores, 502 

chipped stone flakes, 3 flotation 

samples, 2 hammerstones, 2 hand 

stones, 24 lots of mineral, 1 mosaicked 

shell, 4 polishing stones, 5 pollen 

samples, 5 shell beads, 14 shell 

bracelets, 3 shell pendants, 1 shell 

tinkler, 2 snail shells, 5 soil samples, 4 

stone artifacts, 1 stone blade, 3 stone 

knives, 2 stone pendants, 9 stone 

projectile points, 1 stone projectile point 

fragment, 1 stone scraper, 1 tree ring 

sample, 9 worked bone artifacts, 1 

worked ceramic sherd, 1 worked shell, 

3 worked stones, and 2 worked stone 

flakes. 

Site AZ P:14:1(ASM) is a large village 

site containing approximately 500 

rooms in more than a dozen stone room 

blocks arranged around three main 

plazas. The site has been dated from 

A.D. 1275–1400, based on tree ring 

dates, architectural forms, building 

technology, and ceramic styles. These 

characteristics, the mortuary pattern, 

and other items of material culture are 

consistent with the archeologicallydescribed Upland Mogollon or 

prehistoric Western Pueblo tradition. 

In 1932, 2 cultural items were 

removed from the Canyon Creek Ruin, 

AZ C:2:8(GP)/V:2:1(ASM), in Gila 

County, AZ during legally authorized 

excavations conducted by the Gila 

Pueblo Foundation, under the direction 

of Emil Haury. In 1950, the Gila Pueblo 

Foundation closed and the collections 

were transferred to the Arizona State 

Museum. The 2 unassociated funerary 

objects are 2 lots of organic material. 

Site AZ C:2:8(GP)/AZV:2:1(ASM) is a 

cliff dwelling site of approximately 140 

rooms. Based on the ceramic and 

perishable artifact assemblage, the site is 

dated to A.D. 1300 to 1400. The ceramic 

and architectural forms are consistent 

with the archeologically described 

Upland Mogollon or prehistoric Western 

Pueblo traditions. 

A detailed discussion of the basis for 

cultural affiliation of archeological sites 

in the region where the above sites are 

located may be found in ‘‘Cultural 

Affiliation Assessment of White 

Mountain Apache Tribal Lands (Fort 

Apache Indian Reservation),’’ by John R. 

Welch and T.J. Ferguson (2005). To 

summarize, archeologists have used the 

terms Upland Mogollon or prehistoric 

Western Pueblo to define the 

archeological complex represented by 

the sites described above. Material 

culture characteristics of these 

traditions include a temporal 

progression from earlier pit houses to 

later masonry pueblos, villages 

organized in room blocks of contiguous 

dwellings associated with plazas, 

rectangular kivas, polished and paintdecorated ceramics, unpainted 

corrugated ceramics, inhumation 

burials, cradleboard cranial 

deformation, grooved stone axes, and 

bone artifacts. The combination of the 

material culture attributes and a 

subsistence pattern that included 

hunting and gathering augmented by 

maize agriculture helps to identify an 

earlier group. Archeologists have also 

remarked that there are strong 

similarities between this earlier group 

and present-day Tribes included in the 

Western Pueblo ethnographic group, 

especially the Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. The 

similarities in ceramic traditions, burial 

practices, architectural forms, and 

settlement patterns have led 

archeologists to believe that the 

prehistoric inhabitants of the Mogollon 

Rim region migrated north and west to 

the Hopi mesas, and north and east to 

the Zuni River Valley. Certain objects 

found in Upland Mogollon 

archeological sites have been found to 

have strong resemblances with ritual 

paraphernalia that are used in 

continuing religious practices by the 

Hopi and Zuni. Some petroglyphs on 

the Fort Apache Indian Reservation 

have also persuaded archeologists of 

continuities between the earlier 

identified group and current-day 

Western Pueblo people. Biological 

information from AZ P:14:1(ASM) 

supports the view that the prehistoric 

occupants of the Upland Mogollon 

region had migrated from various 

locations to the north and west of the 

region. 

Hopi and Zuni oral traditions parallel 

the archeological evidence for 

migration. Migration figures 

prominently in Hopi oral tradition, 


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which refers to the ancient sites, 

pottery, stone tools, petroglyphs, and 

other artifacts left behind by the 

ancestors as ‘‘Hopi Footprints.’’ This 

migration history is complex and 

detailed, and includes traditions 

relating specific clans to the Mogollon 

region. Hopi cultural advisors have also 

identified medicinal and culinary plants 

at archeological sites in the region. 

Their knowledge about these plants was 

passed down to them from the ancestors 

who inhabited these ancient sites. 

Migration is also an important attribute 

of Zuni oral tradition and includes 

accounts of Zuni ancestors passing 

through the Upland Mogollon region. 

The ancient villages mark the routes of 

these migrations. Zuni cultural advisors 

remark that the ancient sites were not 

abandoned. People returned to these 

places from time to time, either to 

reoccupy them or for religious 

pilgrimages—a practice that has 

continued to the present day. 

Archeologists have found ceramic 

evidence at shrines in the Upland 

Mogollon region that confirms these 

reports. Zuni cultural advisors have 

names for plants endemic to the 

Mogollon region that do not grow on the 

Zuni Reservation. They also have 

knowledge about traditional medicinal 

and ceremonial uses for these resources, 

which has been passed down to them 

from their ancestors. Furthermore, Hopi 

and Zuni cultural advisors have 

recognized that their ancestors may 

have been co-resident at some of the 

sites in this region during their ancestral 

migrations. 

There are differing points of view 

regarding the possible presence of 

Apache people in the Upland Mogollon 

region during the time that these sites 

were occupied. Some Apache traditions 

describe interactions with Ancestral 

Pueblo people during this time, but 

according to these stories, Puebloan 

people and Apache people were 

regarded as having separate identities. 

The White Mountain Apache Tribe of 

the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, 

does not claim cultural affiliation with 

the human remains and associated 

funerary objects from this site. As 

reported by Welch and Ferguson (2005), 

consultations between the White 

Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort 

Apache Reservation, Arizona, and the 

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & 

Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 

and Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico, 

have indicated that that none of these 

Tribes wish to pursue claims of 

affiliation with sites on White Mountain 

Apache Tribal lands. Finally, the White 

Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort 

Apache Reservation, Arizona, supports 

the repatriation of human remains and 

associated funerary objects from these 

sites and is ready to assist the Hopi 

Tribe of Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the 

Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, in their 

reburial. 

Determinations Made by the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, and the Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona 

Officials of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs and Arizona State Museum have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 2,544 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. 

• 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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Reston, 12220 

Sunrise Valley Drive, VA 20191, 

telephone (703) 390–6343, email 

anna.pardo@bia.gov, by September 27, 

2017. After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the unassociated funerary 

objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico may proceed. 

The Arizona State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: July 11, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18186 Filed 8–25–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23695; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: The Fort Worth Museum of 

Science and History, Fort Worth, TX 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Fort Worth Museum of 

Science and History, in consultation 

with the appropriate Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations, has 

determined that the cultural items listed 

in this notice meet the definition of 

objects of cultural patrimony. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to The 

Fort Worth Museum of Science and 

History. If no additional claimants come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

cultural items to the lineal descendants, 

Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian 

organizations stated in this notice may 

proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and 

History at the address in this notice by 

September 27, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Chanin Voss Scanlon, The 

Fort Worth Museum of Science and 

History, 1600 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, 

TX 76107, telephone (817) 255–9300, 

email cscanlon@fwmsh.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of The Fort 

Worth Museum of Science and History 

that meet the definition of objects of 

cultural patrimony 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 Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 


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