Notice2024-00832
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Pioneer Museum, Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort, Kentucky Department of Parks, Carlisle, KY
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Published
January 18, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Pioneer Museum, Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park, Kentucky Department of Parks intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Mason, KY.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3419-3420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00832]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037264; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Pioneer Museum,
Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort, Kentucky Department of Parks,
Carlisle, KY
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 Pioneer Museum, Blue Licks Battlefield
State Resort Park, Kentucky Department of Parks intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated
funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural
items were removed from Mason, KY.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after February 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer Spence, Parks Museum Curator, Kentucky Department
of Parks, 500 Mero Street, 5th Floor, Frankfort, KY 40601, telephone
(502) 892-3339, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d399b6bdbdbab5b6a1fda0a3b6bdb0b693b8aafdb4bca5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="df95bab1b1b6b9baadf1acafbab1bcba9fb4a6f1b8b0a9">[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
Kentucky
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Department of Parks. 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 Kentucky
Department of Parks.
Description
The 274 cultural items were removed from Mason County, KY. These
cultural items were collected in the 1920s thru the 1940s. The Pioneer
Museum's founder, William Curtis, was a collector of these objects and
took part in excavations at Fox Field (Fox Farm Fort Ancient culture
archeological site), Mason County, Kentucky, and possibly at other
sites in Kentucky. Curtis worked with other collectors in the field to
acquire objects for the museum from surrounding counties in the state,
but most items with a known provenience trace back to Fox Field. Most
of these items are displayed and stored in the museum.
The 274 unassociated funerary objects are two adzes, six awls,
eight game balls, five deer knuckle beads, two copper bracelets, two
celts, one chisel, 12 discoidals, four drills, eight effigies, one
effigy bead, five pottery figurines, one fishhook, 11 shell gorgets,
one limestone gorget, one slate gorget, one grooved bone hairpin, one
knapping hammer, three hoes, one grooved bone body ornament, nine flint
knives, three necklaces of shell and bone beads, one necklace of animal
bones, two bone sewing needles, 15 stone pendants, two shell pendants,
four conch shell wheel pendants, four cannel coal pendants, three bear
tooth pendants, two animal bone pendants, two ceramic disk pendants,
two stone pestles, 10 pipes, 27 projectile points, one hide scraper, 61
pottery sherds, two bone whistles, one whetstone, one atlatl weight, 19
pottery vessels, four uniface knives, two mussel shell spoons, one
strand of nine bone, clay, and shell beads, one strand of bear and
canine teeth and a hawks claw, seven bear teeth fragments, one strand
of 10 canine teeth, one strand of 13 marine shells, one strand of 12
beads, one string of seven beads, one string of 12 shell beads, one
string of 18 shell beads, one strand of nine shell beads, one strand of
seven conical shaped shell beads, one strand of 12 animal teeth, one
strand of small shell beads, one strand of nine stone beads, and one
animal tooth bead.
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, other relevant
information, or expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Kentucky Department of Parks has determined that:
<bullet> The 274 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Absentee-
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; and the Shawnee Tribe.
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 20, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Kentucky Department of Parks 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 Kentucky Department of
Parks 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 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00832 Filed 1-17-24; 8:45 am]
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