Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <SUBAGY>National Park Service</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039554; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> National Park Service, Interior. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Notice. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region (USFWS), with assistance from the University of Alaska Museum of the North and the Museum of the Aleutians has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after April 18, 2025. </DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> Jeremy M. Karchut, Regional Historic Preservation Officer/Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 E. Tudor Road, Anchorage, AK 99503, telephone, (907) 786-3399, email <E T="03">jeremy_karchut@fws.gov.</E> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the USFWS, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Abstract of Information Available</HD> Human remains representing, at least, 67 individuals have been identified. The 338 associated funerary objects are from Agattu Island: a worked piece of ivory, a lot of five animal bones; from Amchitka Island: eight animal bones or fragments, two shells, four wedges, one punch, 11 pieces of worked bone, five awls, one needle fragment, one animal tooth, one pendant, two adze, one graver, 16 flakes or flake lots, one cobble, three cores, 13 hammerstones, one hand stone, one hafted hammer, three harpoon fragments, four worked stones, one net weight, two abraders, nine scrapers, one chopper, one piece of ochre, two lamps, one dish fragment, five knives, two bark samples, three soil samples, 25 lots of animal bone, one bone cup, 13 wedges, 11 pieces of worked bone, one seal figurine, six bone points, four harpoon heads, three harpoon foreshafts, two awls, one animal tooth, eight pendants, one labret, two adzes, seven blades, 14 flakes, 10 cobbles, eight hammerstones, one burin, one whetstone, one ulu, six worked stones, four abraders, one scraper, five knife handles, one piece of worked ivory, one lamp, one knife, two soil samples, five hammerstones, four wedges, one ulu blade, one worked bone, one bone scraper, one gouge, one abrader, two fire drill bit, one adze, one projectile point, one end scraper, one wedge, one ground slate fragment, one harpoon head fragment, from Sheyma Island: one bone meat hook, one lot of animal bones, from Buldir Island: 13 projectile points, four bifaces, 29 blades, two scrapers, three worked stones, three unworked stones, two knives, four flakes, one harpoon head, one bone fragment, one handle, one dart, and one worked bone. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from archeological sites on Agattu Island, Amchitka Island, Shemya Island, Little Kiska Island, Nizki Island, Adak Island, Buldir Island, and Attu Island. On Agattu Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK prior to 1968 human remains representing, at minimum, five individuals were removed. According to records at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, these remains were collected by Robert Jones from the surface of a beach and had eroded from a nearby archaeological site. Correspondence in the accession file states that the remains originate from a site that Ales Hrdlicka excavated at prior to World War II. The remains were transferred to the museum in 1968, where they are still housed today and represent two adult males, one adult female, and two juveniles. No known individuals were identified. On Amchitka Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK in 1968, 1969, and 1971 human remains representing, at minimum, 31 individuals (22 adults and nine juveniles) and 269 associated funerary objects were removed from 12 archaeological sites and two unknown locations by William S. Laughlin, Richard Sense, Roger Desautels, and/or John Cook during archaeological survey, testing, and excavation for the Atomic Energy Commission. The complete history of where these human remains and associated funerary objects were stored in the past is unknown, but they are currently split between the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks, AK and the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska, AK. The archaeological site numbers and corresponding MNI for all 31 individuals removed during work conducted for the Atomic Energy Commission are as follows: one adult individual from RAT-00003, one adult individual from RAT-00006, two adults and one juvenile individual from RAT-00010, one adult individual from RAT-00011, one adult individual from RAT-00013, three adult individuals and one juvenile individual from RAT-00014, one adult individual from RAT-00015, one adult individual from RAT-00023, three adult and five juvenile individuals from RAT-00029, one adult individual from RAT-031, one adult individual from RAT-00032, three adult individuals and one juvenile individual from RAT-00035, one adult individual from RAT-00036, and two adults and one juvenile from unknown locations. No known individuals were identified. In 1969 human remains representing, at minimum, one juvenile individual was removed from an unknown location on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK. The exact location where these remains were collected is unknown, but they were collected by Bob West of Walsh & Co. contractors during excavation of sea otter pens. These remains represent one juvenile individual and were placed at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in 1975 where they are still housed today. No associated funerary objects are present for this individual. Prior to 1958 human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were removed from St. Makarius Point on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK. These remains were collected from an unknown archaeological site located on top of a bluff and uncovered during construction activities related to a United States Coast Guard Loran Station built on the site. According to records at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, these human remains were transferred to the museum in 1958 where they are still housed today and represent three adult males. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are present. In 1957 human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were removed from St. Makarius Point on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK. The exact location where these remains were collected is unknown, and there is little information regarding the circumstances surrounding their removal. According to records at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, these human remains were collected by K. W. Kenyon possibly during biological work being conducted on the island, who then transferred them to the museum where they are still housed today. These human remains represent one adult male and two juveniles. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are present. On Shemya Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK human remains representing, at minimum one adult individual were removed. The exact location where these remains were collection is unknown, and there is little information regarding the circumstances surrounding their removal. These remains are housed at the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska, AK. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are present. Prior to 1946 human remains representing, at minimum, four adult individuals were removed from Shemya Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK. The exact location where these remains were collected is unknown, and there is little information regarding the circumstances surrounding their removed. These remains were transferred to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University by Louis G. Fonda in 1946. These remains were transferred again in 2017 to the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks, AK where they are still housed today. No known individuals were identified. A single associated funerary object was present. Prior to 1962 human remains representing, at minimum, one adult individual were removed from Shemya Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK. The exact location where these remains were collected is unknown, and there is little information regarding the circumstances surrounding their removal. According to records at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, these human remains were transferred to the museum by Cynthia Goodwin in 1962 where they are still housed today. No known individuals were identified. One associated funerary object was present. In 1963 human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were removed from Shemya Island in the Aleutians West Census Area, AK. The exact location where these remains were collected is unknown, but they were removed from the east side of the island by M. M. Perry during construction activities. These remains repre ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 18k characters. 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