[Federal Register: April 2, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 62)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Southwest Museum
of the American Indian, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA;
Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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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 Southwest Museum
of the American Indian, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA, that
meet the definitions of ``sacred objects'' and ``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 cultural
items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
This notice corrects a previously published Notice of Intent to
Repatriate by increasing the number of cultural items listed from 55 to
56 cultural items, as the original notice omitted one Dilzini Gaan
headdress.
In the Federal Register of November 2, 2006, (FR Doc E6-18509,
pages 64559-64561), the following corrections are made -
The third paragraph is corrected by substituting the following
paragraph:
The 56 cultural items are 42 pieces of Dilzini Gaandance material,
7 Dilzini Gaan headdresses, 2 Dilzini Gaan dance wands, 2 crosses, 1
shirt, 1 medicine bundle, and 1 cap.
Paragraphs 9 and 10 are corrected by substituting the following
paragraphs:
On December 3, 1935, the Southwest Museum purchased four Dilzini
Gaan headdresses from Ms. Bonnie Gray of Burbank, CA, with money
provided by the General Charles McCormack Reeve Fund. According to
correspondence found in the museum records, Ms. Gray and a companion
unearthed the masks in Arizona from the floor of a deserted Apache
cabin during the middle of the night. Museum records identify all four
headdresses as Apache ``Devil Dance'' material.
The first of the four Dilzini Gaan headdresses is made of wooden
slats tied together with sinew arranged in a fan shape measuring
approximately 31 inches wide and 35 inches high. The slats are
decorated with small mirrors and red, black, blue and yellow painted
zigzags, arrows, birds, and geometric designs. A black cloth mask is
attached to the frame with two slits made for the wearer's eyes. The
second Dilzini Gaan headdress is made of wooden slats tied together
with sinew arranged in a fan shape measuring approximately 30.5 inches
wide and 36 inches high. Blue, red-orange, black, purple, green, and
yellow triangles, diamonds, circles, and other geometric shapes have
been painted on both sides of the wooden slats. The third Dilzini Gaan
headdress is made of long wooden slats divided into three groups and
connected by smaller wooden slats to create a fan shaped arc tied
together with sinew. It measures approximately 26 inches wide and 40
inches high. Red, yellow, blue, purple, and green diamonds, scallops,
triangles, and dots have been painted on both sides of the slats.
Mirrors adhere to the longer slats and one mirror appears to be
missing. Two tassels made of four slender yellow wooden rods are
attached to the laterally projecting slats. There is no mask for the
headdress. The fourth Dilzini Gaan headdress is made of wooden slats
tied together with sinew arranged into three points. The headdress
measures approximately 17 inches wide and 18 inches high, is decorated
with black, red, and purple chevrons and black dots on one side, and is
decorated with black, green, red, and purple dots on the opposite side.
Paragraphs 20 to 23 are also corrected by substituting the
following:
Consultation and physical inspection of the cultural items
described above by knowledgeable Western Apache traditional cultural
authorities of the San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos
Reservation, Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; and Yavapai-
Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona have
identified the cultural items as culturally affiliated with Western
Apache Indian tribes. According to the traditional cultural
authorities, the cultural items have ongoing historical, traditional,
and cultural importance to the Western Apache, and today, must be
returned to the tribes representing the Western Apache to fully
complete the ceremonial cycle into which they were
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introduced; as such, the cultural items are objects of cultural
patrimony.
According to Western Apache traditional cultural authorities, the
56 cultural items are made and handled according to instructions
received from the Creator. The Creator is the only One who has the
right to possess the cultural items after their use by humans. The
cultural items must be put away properly to return them to the Creator;
as such, the cultural items are sacred objects. The Western Apache are
represented today by the federally recognized San Carlos Apache Tribe
of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona;
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona;
and Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation,
Arizona. These four tribes are members of the Western Apache NAGPRA
Working Group.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the objects of cultural patrimony/sacred
objects should contact Dr. Duane H. King, Executive Director, or LaLena
Lewark, Senior NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, Autry National Center, 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065,
telephone (323) 221-2164 extension 241, before May 2, 2007.
Repatriation of the objects of cultural patrimony/sacred objects to the
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Tonto
Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache
Reservation, Arizona; and Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde
Indian Reservation, Arizona may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
Southwest Museum is responsible for notifying the Apache Tribe of
Oklahoma; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation,
New Mexico; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New
Mexico; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona;
Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort
Apache Reservation, Arizona; and Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp
Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 14, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7-5977 Filed 3-30-07; 8:45 am]
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