Notice2024-00608
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
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Published
January 16, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Longyear Museum of Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects or sacred objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Bay County, FL.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2643-2644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00608]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037238; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Longyear Museum of
Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, 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 Longyear Museum of Anthropology (LMA)
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of unassociated funerary objects or sacred objects and that have a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Bay
County, FL.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after February 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Kelsey Olney-Wall, Repatriation Manager, Longyear Museum of
Anthropology, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346,
telephone (315) 228-7677, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#28434744464d515f494444684b47444f495c4d064d4c5d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c6ada9aaa8a3bfb1a7aaaa86a5a9aaa1a7b2a3e8a3a2b3">[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
LMA. 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 summary or related records held by the LMA.
Description
The five cultural items were removed from Bay County, FL, in 1902
and 1918 by Clarence B. Moore, during his excavations of a small sand
mound at
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Bear Point (By-5, now known as Strickland Point) and an unknown site in
St. Andrews Bay. The four unassociated funerary objects are four
potsherds (Catalog A55/Index 149; Catalog A56/Index 150). The one
sacred object is a large shell dipper (Catalog A57/Index 151).
On January 25, 1955, after receiving Congressional authorization,
the Smithsonian Institution officially transferred one lot of
``Archaeological Specimens (duplicate) (Educational study
collections),'' to Colgate University's Sociology and Anthropology
Professor John Longyear III, Curator of the LMA (previously the
Anthropology Museum). The five cultural items from Bear Point Mound
were accessioned into the LMA collection at this time.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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,
geographical information, historical information, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the LMA has determined that:
<bullet> The four cultural items described above 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 and
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> The one cultural item described above is a specific
ceremonial object needed by traditional Native American religious
leaders for the practice of traditional Native American religions by
their present-day adherents.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Seminole Tribe
of Florida and The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after February 15, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the LMA must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The LMA 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: January 9, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00608 Filed 1-12-24; 8:45 am]
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