Notice2023-27382
Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum, Chicago, IL
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Published
December 13, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were collected at an unknown location or locations.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86365-86366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27382]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037068; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum, Chicago, IL
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 Field Museum has completed an inventory
of human remains and has determined that
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there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human
remains were collected at an unknown location or locations.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation Director, Field Museum, 1400 S
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone (312) 665-7317, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0169736e6363686f72416768646d656c747264746c2f6e7366"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="acc4dec3cecec5c2dfeccac5c9c0c8c1d9dfc9d9c182c3decb">[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
Field 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 Field
Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were
collected at an unknown location or locations. The human remains are
hair clippings belonging to two individuals, identified with the tribal
designations ``Delaware'' and ``Shawnee'' (Field Museum catalog numbers
193208.3 and 193213.3). Field Museum staff believe they were collected
under the direction of Franz Boas and Frederick Ward Putnam for the
1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The hair clippings were
accessioned into the Field Museum's collection in 1939. No information
regarding the individual's name, sex, age, or geographic location has
been found. No associated funerary objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains 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: historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Field Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation,
Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma;
and the Shawnee Tribe.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 and, if joined to a request
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the Munsee-Delaware Nation or
the Eel[uuml]naap[eacute]ewi Lahk[eacute]ewiit, both non-federally
recognized Indian groups.
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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after January 12, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Field Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Field Museum 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: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-27382 Filed 12-12-23; 8:45 am]
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