Notice2024-02559
Notice of Inventory Completion: Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums-Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen Cove, NY
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Published
February 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve 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 Suffolk County, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8715-8716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02559]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037352; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Nassau County Department of
Parks, Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen
Cove, 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 Nassau County Department of Parks,
Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve 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 Suffolk County, NY.
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DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Veronica Natale, Museum Director--Garvies Point Museum and
Preserve, 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove, NY 11542, telephone (516) 571-
8010, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#483e26293c29242d0826293b3b293d2b273d263c312631662f273e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6f19010e1b0e030a2f010e1c1c0e1a0c001a011b16011641080019">[email protected]</span></a> and Darcy Belyea, Commissioner
of Parks, Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a8cccacdc4d1cdc9e8c6c9dbdbc9ddcbc7ddc6dcd1c6d186cfc7de"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f29690979e8b9793b29c9381819387919d879c868b9c8bdc959d84">[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
Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums. 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 Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and
Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve.
Description
In 1966, Nassau County Museum (NCM) Archaeologists recovered the
partial human remains of, at minimum, two male adults found in a single
grave during development of an area for housing. They were removed from
NCM Site #1, Catalog number 1-1, Stony Hollow-Water's Edge, Centerport,
Suffolk County, NY. Six associated funerary objects; Levanna points
were found in association with grave; four have been located.
Archeological evidence dates the human remains to the Late Woodland
period.
Sometime between 1966-1969, a fragmentary human skull, representing
at minimum, one individual was found by others at an unknown location
and removed from Strong's Neck, Suffolk County, NY. In 1969, the
cranial fragments were donated to the museum by Ken Robinson, an
archeologist involved at this site, Catalog number 63-x-113. No
associated funerary objects are present. Time period is unknown.
Human remains representing, at minimum, 24 individuals were removed
from Suffolk County, NY. (Catalog number 132-x-1) Provenance: NCM #32,
Soak Hides, Three Mile Harbor, NY. No associated funerary objects are
present. Archeological evidence dates the site and human remains to the
Woodland period.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Suffolk County, NY. (Catalog number 136-79) Excavated by Suffolk
County Police, March 1971. Medical Examiner #0706. Site was located on
private property of Mr. Paul Windels Jr. and he subsequently donated
the human remains to the museum in 1972. Provenance: NCM #136, Stony
Brook Harbor site, Nissequogue, NY. 11 associated funerary objects were
found which include eight quartz projectile point fragments, a bead,
deer scapula fragment, and fire-cracked hammerstone. Site has late
Archaic through Late Woodland time.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Suffolk County, NY. (Catalog number 151-x) The frontal bone of a
skull and two small skull fragments. Recovered by a bayman with clam
tongs. Provenance: NCM Site #151, Plax site, Westhampton Beach, NY. No
associated funerary objects are present.
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, historical, kinship, oral
tradition, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and
Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 29 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 15 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 Shinnecock 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 March 11, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Nassau County
Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and
Preserve 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 Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation
and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve is responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe identified in this
notice.
This notice was submitted on or after the effective date of the
revised regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January
12, 2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the
Federal Register and includes the required information, the National
Park Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-02559 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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