Notice2023-14388
Notice of Inventory Completion: New York State Museum, Albany, NY
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Published
July 7, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the New York State Museum (NYSM), 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 Albany and Washington Counties, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43390-43391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14388]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036138; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: New York State Museum, Albany, NY
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 New York State Museum (NYSM), 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 Albany and Washington
Counties, NY.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Lisa Anderson, New York State Museum, 3049 Cultural
Education Center, Albany, NY 12230, telephone (518) 486-2020, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#701c1903115e111e141502031f1e301e090315145e171f06"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84e8edf7e5aae5eae0e1f6f7ebeac4eafdf7e1e0aae3ebf2">[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
NYSM. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
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the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the NYSM.
Description
Between 1954 and 1974, human remains representing one individual
were removed from the Menands Bridge site in Menands, Albany County,
NY, during salvage excavations conducted by New York State Museum staff
and avocational archeologists R. Arthur Johnson and C.S. Sundler. The
582 associated funerary objects are 80 chipped stone flakes, five
bifaces, three projectile points, 48 pottery sherds, one pottery pipe
bowl, one netsinker, 299 fragments of animal bone (including one dog),
14 shell beads, 70 shell fragments, three botanical samples, 10
charcoal samples, three soil samples, 43 unmodified stones, one fire-
cracked rock, and one iron fragment. The Menands Bridge site is located
within traditional Mohican territory. Based on their archeological
context, the human remains and associated funerary objects probably
date to the Lake Woodland period.
In 1969, associated funerary objects were removed from the Coffin
site in Easton, Washington County, NY, during excavations conducted by
the NYSM. The 46 associated funerary objects include six pottery
fragments, 38 chipped stone flakes, one scraper, and one biface. The
Coffin site is located within traditional Mohican territory. The
archeological evidence dates the site to the Late Woodland period.
On October 4, 2001, the NYSM listed additional human remains and
associated funerary objects from the above sites in the Federal
Register (66 FR 50674-50675). On June 23, 2004, the NYSM repatriated
them.
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 linguistic.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the NYSM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 628 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 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 August 7, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the NYSM 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 NYSM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribe 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: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14388 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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