Notice2023-15100
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bridgewater College's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum Collection, Bridgewater, VA
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Published
July 18, 2023
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Bridgewater College's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum Collection 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 the Lewis Creek Burial Mound, Augusta County, VA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45911-45912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15100]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036183; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bridgewater College's Reuel B.
Pritchett Museum Collection, Bridgewater, VA
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 Bridgewater College's Reuel B. Pritchett
Museum Collection 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 the
Lewis Creek Burial Mound, Augusta County, VA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Andrew L. Pearson, Bridgewater College, 402 East College
Street, Bridgewater, VA 22812, telephone (540) 828-5410, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4e2f3e2b2f3c3d21200e2c3c272a292b392f3a2b3c602b2a3b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7716071216050418193715051e131012001603120559121302">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The
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determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
Bridgewater College's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum Collection. 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 Bridgewater College's Reuel B. Pritchett
Museum Collection.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from the Lewis Creek Burial Mound, Augusta County, VA, by the Virginia
Archaeological Society in the autumn of 1964 around the time the State
Highway Department announced plans to work on access roads and ramps in
the area. During the dig, Ruth Kent and Dr. Robert K. Burns, who
according to the Museum's records, was an embryologist and a member of
the American Academy of Sciences, discovered the infant remains. The
human remains, a skeleton, was given to the Museum by the Southern
Shenandoah Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Virginia in 1964
and given the catalog number 64.1.001.
On an unknown date(s), 52 cultural items were removed from the
Lewis Creek Indian Mound in Augusta County, VA. The items were
purchased from George Rusmiselle by Dr. Robert K. Burns circa 1936-
1950, and were donated to the Museum in 1978 by Robert K. Burns. The 52
associated funerary objects are: eight red glass beads with blue and
white stripes on a string (78.7.003a); 32 projectile points, some of
which are carved from white quartz (78.7.003b); eight bone or shell
beads (78.7.003c); one string of shell or bone wampum beads
(78.7.003c); one string of shell beads (78.7.003d); one partial
steatite pipe (78.7.003e); and one partial clay pipe (78.7.003f).
On an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from the Lewis
Creek Indian Mound in Augusta County, VA. The item was donated to the
Museum in 1954 by Reuel B. Pritchett. The one associated funerary
object is an unidentified Native American stone implement that may be
marked, ``Lewis.'' The item was given the catalog number: 54.1.956.
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: archaeological information, geographical information,
historical information, consultation with one or more Indian Tribes,
and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Bridgewater College's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum
Collection has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 53 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 Monacan Indian 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 August 17, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Bridgewater
College's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum Collection 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 Bridgewater
College's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum Collection 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: July 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-15100 Filed 7-17-23; 8:45 am]
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