[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64361-64362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30816]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects From the Island of Maui in the
Possession of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d), of
the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects from the Island of Maui in the possession of the Bernice Pauahi
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI.
A detailed assessment and inventory of the human remains and
associated funerary objects from the Island of Maui has been made by
Bishop Museum's professional staff, in consultation with
representatives of Hui Alanui o Makena, the Maui / Lana'i Island Burial
Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, and
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
The human remains and associated funerary objects were found at
various times and locations on the island of Maui. In 1916, Museum
Anthropologist John F.G. Stokes and his wife collected the remains of
four individuals, each with animals parts assumed to be associated
funerary objects, from Pihana Heiau, Wailuku. In 1925, Annie M.
Alexander donated partial remains of nine individuals from Pa'ia Beach.
In 1928, Winslow M. Walker, Museum Assistant Ethnologist, recovered
human remains and associated funerary objects during archaeological
excavations and surveys in the Hononana Gulch caves (four partial
remains and one broken gourd) and from an unnamed cave on Maui (three
skulls, one set of crania fragments and one pipe). In 1957, Kenneth P.
Emory, Museum Ethnologist, collected seven partial human remains, one
animal mandible and one wood fragment from a cave in Pa'ia. In 1962,
Robert J. Holt donated one skull from Waiehu. In 1965, Mr. and Mrs.
Wescott donated one fragmentary mandible from Ku'au Beach, Pa'ia. In
1966 and 1968, Museum excavations recovered twenty-six remains, three
shell fragments, one rock, and one piece of charcoal at Waiehu, and
Sprecklesville. In 1967, William McElwaine donated one fragmentary
adult cranium from Pa'uwela. In 1968, a joint Bishop Museum, Mauna'olu
College, and Maui Community College project excavated one incomplete
infant skeleton with one anklet near Ku'au. In 1969, James H. Jackson,
donated one cranium from Ho'okipa Park. In 1981, excavations at the
site of Makena Surf Hotel, resulted in the recovery of two incomplete
sets of remains. In 1982, Museum excavations recovered partial remains
of two individuals and one unrelated tooth from Waiehu Heights. In
1982, Audrey Reed donated one skull from Kahului. At an unknown date,
the Museum received one humerus from Wailuku.
No known individuals were identified. No attempt was made to
determine the age of these human remains at the request of the above
mentioned Native Hawaiian organizations. Geographic location of the
remains, types of associated funerary objects, and method of burial
preparation are typical of Native Hawaiians ancestral to contemporary
Native Hawaiians.
Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Bernice
Pauahi Bishop Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2
(d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical remains
of
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66 individuals of Native American ancestry. Museum officials have also
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A) and (B) the 14 items
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, Bishop Museum officials 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 the human remains
and associated funerary objects and Hui Alanui o Makena, the Maui /
Lana'i Island Burial Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, Hui Malama I Na Kupuna
'O Hawai'i Nei, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
This notice has been sent to officials of Hui Alanui o Makena, Maui
/ Lana'i Island Burial Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, and Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei.
Representatives of any other Native Hawaiian organization that believes
itself to be culturally affiliated with these human remains and
associated funerary objects should contact Janet Ness, Registrar,
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817-0916
telephone: (808) 848-4105, before January 3, 1997. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary objects to Hui Alanui o Makena,
Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, Maui / Lana'i Island Burial
Council, Na Kupuna o Maui, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs will
begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: November 22, 1996.
Richard C. Waldbauer,
Acting, Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Acting Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 96-30816 Filed 12-3-96; 8:45 am]
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