Notice2025-08028
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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Published
May 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) 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 88 (Thursday, May 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 19527]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08028]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040086; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida, Florida
Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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 University of Florida, Florida Museum of
Natural History (FLMNH) 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 June 9, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Megan Fry, University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural
History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, telephone (352) 273-
1921, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#09646c6e6867276f7b70496f65667b606d68647c7a6c7c64277c6f65276c6d7c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d9b4bcbeb8b7f7bfaba099bfb5b6abb0bdb8b4acaabcacb4f7acbfb5f7bcbdac">[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
FLMNH, 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
Human remains representing, at least, 13 individuals have been
identified from the Casey Key/Synder Site (8SO17), in Sarasota County,
Florida. The 80 associated funerary objects include fragmentary
pottery, wood, stone, shell, glass, faunal bone, botanicals and soil.
This burial mound and accompanying shell ridge were located along
the water's edge. The site was severely disturbed by development and
construction. It dates to the Weedon Island period and is believed to
have been contemporary with the Palmer Burial Mound site. Ripley P.
Bullen and Adelaide K. Bullen visited the site in 1959, learning that
the site had been looted by school students who sold the human remains
they found sometime in the 1940s and in 1985 Marquardt again assessed
the sites history while conducting archaeological reconnaissance on
Casey Key, Sarasota, Florida.
The site came to the FLMNH through various accessions. Accession
3923 was collected by Hilton Leech on January 31, 1954, from a shell
drift and presented the artifacts to FLMNH. Accession 3942 was again
collected by Hilton Leech from a burial mound on August 9, 1955, and
presented to the FLMNH. Accession 76-70 was transferred from the
University of Florida Department of Anthropology in the summer of 1976.
Accession 71-51 was a bulk transfer from the University of Florida
Anthropology department. Accession 2000-4 was excavated by William H.
Marquardt and Karen Jo Walker at a construction site on Donald Snyder's
property on June 18, 1985. The construction firm working on the
property was called The Twitchell Group Architects, Sarasota. During
the time of excavation, it was unclear if this site was a part of 8SO17
or a separate site, so they named it Snyder Site. It was determined
that the site was in fact part of the 8SO17 accession of Casey Key and
not a separate site. They returned to the site on September 9 to
determine that the site was a part of 8SO17. Accession 2002-63 was
first donated to Carlyle Luer, reportedly collected from Casey Key
burial mound during the 1950s and in December of 2003, the collection
was donated to the FLMNH by George Luer.
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 to be associated with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Determinations
The FLMNH has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 13 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 80 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 Seminole
Tribe of Florida.
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.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 9,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the FLMNH
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 FLMNH 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: April 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08028 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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