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Page Two Section Tucson, Sunday, June 6, 1993 ffljf Arizona BailoSlar Off the Wall Beds Handcrafted by our shop in Contemporary, boutnwestern and traditional "Give us one room, we'll give you two rooms" SpeedwayWilmot in Monterey Village Showroom inside Bed Mart 6252 E. Speedway 745-1186 SINCE 1979 Remains Continued from Page IB human remains, funerary objects, sacred ceremonial objects, and objects of historical or cultural significance to the tribes. The laws require museums to provide an inventory of human remains and artifacts to the tribes and to consult with tribes about their disposition. The consultation meetings usually lead to an agreement between claimants. When an agreement can't be reached, the case Is sent to an outside mediator.

Teague has coordinated the return of several thousand sets of human remains since 1990. Most of those remains went directly to the tribes from ongoing excavations, without being Incorporated Into the museum collection. Two of the larger repatriations human remains and grave goods from the Papago Freeway project in Phoenix and the San Xavier Bridge project in Tucson demonstrate the hazards of reburial. In both cases, reburial sites were looted, and funerary objects ended up on the black market, Teague said. "They had been returned to the tribes and had been reburied, and later some of them were seen in New York in a dealer's place," she said.

Reld said he hopes the tribes will allow the university to keep the Grasshopper ceramics until the research program can be wrapped up. Grasshopper research has resulted in 17 doctoral dissertations in the past 30 years, and four others are in progress. Another option would be to repatriate in stages, Reld said. burial Is 2,000 years old or the burial of my father," he said. "They are equally important to me, and I have equal respect for both." Reld pointed out that no human remains have been exhumed at Grasshopper since 1979, when he took over as director of the field school.

Bowls placed In the ground with a corpse held offerings, and archaeologists have found bits of grain, seeds and paint In some of the bowls pulled from Grasshopper graves. "Most of these bowls came out of burials, and there may well have been pots, as in the case of this one, which were made specifically for the Individual buried," Reld said as he cradled a small red, white and black clay bowl of a type known as Cibecue polychrome. Arrowheads and ornaments such as bone hair pins, shell pendants and turquoise also were found in Grasshopper graves. The human remains from Grasshopper are stored on the third floor of the Arizona Statue Museum, which used to be the UA library. The remains are kept in cardboard boxes one skeleton per box unless the bones came from a mass grave on metal bookshelves that once were library stacks.

Some 3,000 sets of human remains, pulled from various archaeological sites over the past century, are stored in the stacks. They are locked behind a metal grating In a dark corner of the building, at the top of several flights of stairs. Between two-thirds and three-fourths of the human remains are prehistoric, primarily Hohokam and Mogollon, with some Anasazi. "We don't take anybody up there except Indians and a few people on the museum staff." Teague said. .1 I ilSa1- i "MOW (..

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We tosatt yon ike life waste Flagstaff a Show Low rasshopptr f'V ortS Apache Ktstrvation Tucson a 4t Judy Margolls, The Arizona Daily Star "I will argue that we be given some time," he said. "If we're able to acquire the funding, I would imagine a decade may well be sufficient" Leigh Jenkins, director of the Hopi Office of Cultural Preservation, said that "a partnership with science" can benefit the Hopl by enriching knowledge of their past. "But we're interested In having the human remains buried again with the funerary objects, and we definitely are going to request to have those things reburied," Jenkins said. "It's not my philosophy to come charging over the hill with my war bonnet on, so to speak, but the Hopi have always objected very strongly to the deliberate disturbance of human remains and the long-term storage of human remains." Other topics are open for discussion: the fate of non-funerary ceramics, the repatriation timetable, the reburial site, protection of reburied material, Jenkins said. The Hopi generally prefer reburial near the exhumation site, he said.

"For me it does not matter if a TM TM TM nit Woman gets 20 years for killing ex-lover PRESCOTT (AP) A woman who admitted killing her former lover after he told her he was taking their dogs was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison. Shelly Marie Norgard, 22, admitted she shot Raymond F. Clerx, 24, in the head on May 9, 1991, as they fought about the end of their relationship. In a sentencing memo submitted to Yavapai County Superior Court Judge James Suit, Norgard admitted carrying the body around in her car trunk for two weeks. She said she dumped it in a mine shaft after the smell got too bad.

The body was found in the Granite Basin Recreation Area by hikers who noticed the smell. Suit characterized the slaying as senseless, called Norgard depraved and said she treated her victim's body "like garbage." Norgard, who's also a suspect in the killing of a former roommate, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors and already has been in jail for more than two years. Norgard's lawyer, Pamela Myers, portrayed her client as a troubled woman who'd been sexually abused as a child and raped as a teen-ager and who couldn't deal with the loss of her lover. The day of the killing, Myers wrote In a sentencing memorandum, Clerx had returned from California, where he'd moved after leaving Norgard, and the couple had gone for a drive. On the front seat sat a gun they always carried.

They stopped to talk, and Clerx told her he would be leaving again in the morning and taking the couple's dogs. Then Clerx, a graduate of Embry-Rlddle Aeronautical University, lay down on the car roof on a blanket to watch planes fly overhead. "Shelly suddenly felt like she was going to explode," the sentencing memo says. "It was bad enough that he had left her, but now be was taking all that she had left the dogs. She picked up the gun from the front seat, pointed it Ray's head and pulled the trigger." The memo portrayed Clerx as a cold person who made Norgard have an abortion and who wouldn't sleep in the same bed her even though they lived together.

The victim's father, Peter Clerx, said he felt "shortchanged" by the sentence. He suggested Norgard stole money from Clerx and killed him to cover up the crime. Investigators say Norgard is a suspect but not the only suspect in the 1988 slaying of her roommate, Pamela Pitts, 19. Phoenix engineer is named director of public works County Administrator Manoj Vyas appointed Dorwin Black, a civil engineer from Phoenix, as his new public works director. Black, who is a private consultant, will be paid $80,000 a year.

He starts June 14. He Is the last person named to head one of the five superdepart-ments Vyas created during his January reorganization. Black, named last week, is the first to come from outside the county. The other four department heads were already working for Pima County when Vyas offered them their jobs. Vyas was forced to solicit outside applications for the public works job, however, after his top three choices turned him down.

The public works department Includes transportation, flood control, solid and liquid waste, development services and environmental quality. Black has been a private consultant since December 1991 when he resigned as the Maricopa County highway director, a position he held for two years. Before that, he spent 14 months as an assistant to the county engineer. He also has extensive engineering experience with the VS. Navy, from which he retired in 1987.

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