Notice2022-19830
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, Columbia, MO
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Published
September 14, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology 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. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Tupelo in Lee County, MS.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56440-56441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19830]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034498; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of
Anthropology, Columbia, MO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Missouri, Museum of
Anthropology 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. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Tupelo
in Lee County, MS.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Candace Sall, Director; Museum of Anthropology,
University of Missouri, 101 Museum Support Center, Columbia, MO 65211,
telephone (573) 882-3764, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cea0afa9bebcaf8ea3a7bdbda1bbbca7e0abaabb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aec0cfc9dedccfeec3c7ddddc1dbdcc780cbcadb">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology.
Description
In 1960 and 1961, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from the surface of a washed-out burial labeled
Site 2, Chickasaw Old Village, near Highway 78 North in Lee County, MS,
by William Philyaw. The individual is of unknown age and sex and is
from the ``washed out area'' of the site at that time. The human
remains and associated funerary objects remained in Philyaw's custody
until his son, William Philyaw Jr., donated the collection to the
Museum of Anthropology in 2018. No known individual was identified. The
207 associated funerary objects are one iron gun part, one iron
fragment, two copper gun parts, two copper fragments, two copper
tinklers, two miscellaneous metal fragments, three metal musket balls,
one copper ``S'' hook, 26 brass buttons, six gun flints, three glass
bottle fragments, seven small blue beads, one large blue bead, 18 small
black beads, 16 small white beads, 64 iron fragments, one gun barrel,
five copper fragments, one gun flint, eight glass fragments, 13 pottery
fragments, three soapstone pipe fragments, six projectile points, nine
hafted bifaces, four drills, one hammerstone, and one nutting stone.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: archeological information, biological information, and
geographical information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 207 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and The Chickasaw Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 14, 2022.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
Missouri, Museum of Anthropology must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single
request and not competing requests. The University of Missouri, Museum
of Anthropology is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: September 1, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-19830 Filed 9-13-22; 8:45 am]
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