Notice2025-01014
Notice of Inventory Completion: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK
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Published
January 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH) 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4799-4800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01014]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039323; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Sam Noble Museum of Natural
History, Norman, OK
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 Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural
History (SNOMNH) 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Marc Levine, Associate Curator of Archaeology, Sam Noble
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, 2401
Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK 73072-7029, telephone (405) 325-1994,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#caa7a6afbca3a4af8aa5bfe4afaebf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c0adaca5b6a9aea580afb5eea5a4b5">[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
SNOMNH, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, 281 individuals were removed
from the Raymond Mackey site (34Lf29) in LeFlore County, OK. This site
was excavated by the Works Progress Administration in 1940 and
transferred to the Museum the same year. The human remains include 62
adult females, 32 adult males, 21 adolescents, 25 children, two
infants, one fetus, 60 probable adult females, 41 probable adult males,
two females for whom age could not be determined, 18 adults for whom
sex could not be determined, and 17 individuals for whom neither age
nor sex could be determined. No known individuals were identified. The
169 associated funerary objects are two potsherds, 39 projectile
points, one projectile point fragment, three stone manos, two
hammerstones, one stone hoe, one boatstone, six stone bifaces, seven
bags of stone biface fragments, 17 paintstones, one worked stone, one
stone flake, one unmodified piece of quartz, one partial dog skeleton,
two bone awls, four bags of awl fragments, two bone beads, two bags of
bone fish hook fragments, one bag of bone pin fragments, one worked
deer antler, one worked deer ulna, three bags of worked animal bone, 14
bags of deer antler fragments, 44 bags of animal bone fragments, two
shell beads, one conch disc, six bags of mussel shell fragments, one
snail shell, one burned nut, and one bag of ash. The human remains and
associated funerary objects from site 34Lf29 were interred during the
Woodland Period (300 B.C.-A.D. 900).
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The SNOMNH has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 281 individuals were of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 169 objects described in this notice are 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 human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita,
Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects 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.
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Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the SNOMNH 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 SNOMNH 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: January 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01014 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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