Notice2021-20915
Notice of Inventory Completion: American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; Correction
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Published
September 27, 2021
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on January 16, 2014. This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the American Museum of Natural History. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 184 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53341-53342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20915]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0032675; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: American Museum of Natural
History, New York, NY; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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SUMMARY: The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has corrected an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published
in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on January
16, 2014. This notice corrects the number of associated funerary
objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request to the American Museum
of Natural History. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer
of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects 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
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to the American Museum of Natural History at the
address in this notice by October 27, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nell Murphy, American Museum of
Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024,
telephone (212) 769-5837, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f09e9d8582809889b0919d9e98de9f8297"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="abc5c6ded9dbc3d2ebcac6c5c385c4d9cc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects under the control of the American Museum of
Natural History, New York, NY. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from the Sebonac site in Shinnecock
Hills, Suffolk County, NY.
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 human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register
(79 FR 2876-2877, January 16, 2014). The Museum recently received
archival documentation housed in a different institution that pertains
to the AMNH's excavations at Shinnecock Hills. This new information has
led Museum staff to identify additional associated funerary objects.
Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has not
occurred.
Correction
In the Federal Register (79 FR 2877, January 16, 2014), column 1,
paragraph 2, sentence 3 is corrected by substituting the following
sentence:
The 145 associated funerary objects are 109 ceramic sherds; two
fragmentary turtle shell cups; one fragmentary turtle shell; one lot
of burnt earth; one gun flint; one draw shave scraper; one lot of
oyster shells; one grinding stone; one fragmentary steatite dish;
one fragment of a soapstone object; one net sinker; one broken bone
awl; two clay concretions (one of which is ornamented with lines);
one clay disk; two lots of marine shells; one animal jaw; one
serrated quartz scrapper or saw; one lot of animal bones (including
deer antler, deer, bird, fish and turtle bone); one lot of animal
bone (including deer antler, a tooth and split deer bones); one lot
of animal bone including a sturgeon scale and piece of turtle shell;
one lot of charred fish bones; one lot of marine shells and animal
tooth; seven quartz tools; one lot of lithic debitage and clay dog:
And four lots of lithic debitage.
In the Federal Register (79 FR 2877, January 16, 2014), column 2,
paragraph 1, bullet point 2 is corrected by substituting the following
sentence:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 145 objects described in
this notice 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.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native
Hawaiian
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organization not identified in this notice that wish to request
transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request with information in support of
the request to Nell Murphy, American Museum of Natural History, Central
Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, telephone (212) 769-5837,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d6360787f7d65744d6c60636523627f6a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="432d2e3631332b3a03222e2d2b6d2c3124">[email protected]</span></a>, by October 27, 2021. After that date, if no
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Shinnecock Indian
Nation may proceed.
The American Museum of Natural History is responsible for notifying
the Cayuga Nation; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Mashantucket Pequot
Indian Tribe [previously listed as Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of
Connecticut]; Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut [previously
listed as Mohegan Indian Tribe of Connecticut]; Narragansett Indian
Tribe; Oneida Indian Nation [previously listed as Oneida Nation of New
York]; Oneida Nation [previously listed as Oneida Tribe of Indians of
Wisconsin]; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe [previously
listed as St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York]; Seneca Nation
of Indians [previously listed as Seneca Nation of New York]; Seneca-
Cayuga Nation [previously listed as Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma];
Shinnecock Indian Nation; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin;
Tuscarora Nation; and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) that
this notice has been published.
Dated: September 21, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2021-20915 Filed 9-24-21; 8:45 am]
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