Notice2024-29941
Notice of Inventory Completion: Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
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Published
December 18, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science (LSUMNS) has completed an inventory of an associated funerary object and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29941]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039212; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Louisiana State University,
Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
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 Louisiana State University, Museum of
Natural Science (LSUMNS) has completed an inventory of an associated
funerary object and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation
between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary object in this notice
may occur on or after January 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Irene Mart[iacute] Gil, LSU Museum of Natural Science,
119 Foster Hall, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, telephone (225) 578-2855,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#20494d4152541213604c53550e454455"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="82ebefe3f0f6b0b1c2eef1f7ace7e6f7">[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
LSUMNS, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
One associated funerary object has been identified after re-
inventorying the LSUMNS archaeological collections. The associated
funerary object is a small, anthropomorphic, pottery figurine. This
figurine was recovered from the Morton Shell Mound site (16IB3) (also
known as Weeks Island or LMS 33-I-3), located on the Weeks Island salt
dome in Iberia Parish, LA, by a local individual and donated to the LSU
Museum of Natural Science when Mr. Robert Neuman was the Curator. The
LSUMNS never formally accessioned this object and we do not possess any
further information.
This notice supplements the original 2022 Notice of Inventory
Completion published in the Federal Register (87 FR 69307-69313,
November 18, 2022), which identified only human remains representing
275 individuals removed from the site as part of an intensive research
program under the direction of then-LSUMNS Curator of Anthropology
Robert Neuman between 1969 and 1971.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The LSUMNS has determined that:
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 connection between the associated funerary
object described in this notice and the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary object
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the associated funerary object described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 17, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the LSUMNS must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the associated funerary object are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The LSUMNS 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 10.10.
Dated: December 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-29941 Filed 12-17-24; 8:45 am]
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