Notice2023-11018
Notice of Inventory Completion: Warren County Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Shippen Manor Museum, Oxford, NJ
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Published
May 24, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Shippen Manor Museum 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 Warren County, NJ.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 33641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11018]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035913; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Warren County Cultural & Heritage
Affairs, Shippen Manor Museum, Oxford, NJ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Shippen Manor Museum 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 Warren County, NJ.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after June 23, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Gina Rosseland, Warren County Cultural & Heritage Affairs,
Shippen Manor Museum, 8 Belvidere Avenue, Oxford, NJ 07863, telephone
(908) 453-4381.
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
Shippen Manor Museum. 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 Shippen
Manor Museum.
Description
In 1966, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were found along the Delaware River in Pahaquarry, Warren County, NJ.
Initially, these ancestral remains, together with associated funerary
objects, were in the possession of White Township Historical Museum
(Bridgeville, Warren County, NJ). Subsequently, they were brought to
the Shippen Manor Museum by former curator Andrew Drysdale. The human
remains belong to a juvenile male. No known individual was identified.
The three associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of hammer
stones, one lot consisting of rocks, and one lot consisting of
arrowheads and/or flint.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were found
at the King Cole site (Dayton's Burial Site #1) in Belvidere, Warren
County, NJ, during an archeological excavation and brought to the
Shippen Manor Museum by F. Dayton Staats at an unknown date. The human
remains consist of bone and teeth belonging to an adolescent male, No
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from the King Cole site in Belvidere, Warren County, NJ, and placed at
the Shippen Manor Museum by F. Dayton Staats at an unknown date. The
human remains consist of skull belonging to a female of unidentified
age. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects
are present.
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, geographical, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Shippen Manor Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The three lots of funerary 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 Delaware Nation, Oklahoma;
Delaware Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge Munsee Community,
Wisconsin.
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 June 23, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Shippen Manor
Museum 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 Shippen Manor Museum is responsible for sending
a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: May 17, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-11018 Filed 5-23-23; 8:45 am]
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