Notice2025-11932
Notice of Inventory Completion: William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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Published
June 27, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky (WSWM) 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 122 (Friday, June 27, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27660-27661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11932]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040439; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: William S. Webb Museum of
Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 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 William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology,
University of Kentucky (WSWM) 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 July 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Celise Chilcote-
Fricker, William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of
Kentucky, 1020 Export Street, Lexington, KY 40504, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c2a1a7aeabb1a7eca4b0aba1a9a7b082b7a9bbeca7a6b7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9cfff9f0f5eff9b2faeef5fff7f9eedce9f7e5b2f9f8e9">[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
WSWM, 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
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, 490 individuals have been reasonably identified. The 1,174
associated funerary objects are two atlatl points, three bone beads, 46
bone awls, one bone fish hook, one bone pendant, three bone tubes,
three bone whistles, three dog burials, one etched bone tool, two bone
projectile points, three faunal tooth pendants, one bone flaker, three
modified antlers, one modified bone, three modified pieces of turtle
carapace, seven lithic projectile points, eight lithic projectile
points/knives, two lithic knives, six pestles, six scrapers, two
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sub-rectangular bars, five cannel coal beads, three tubular lithic
beads, one red sandstone barrel bead, one copper needle, one copper
pin, one copper sheet fragment, 206 shell disc beads, one shell gorget,
12 shell pendants, 474 shell snail beads, 11 shell tubular beads, 179
lots faunal, 10 lots ceramic, four lots charcoal, 118 lots lithic, and
40 lots shell. Site 15McL04, the Barrett site, was excavated from
November 1938 to July 1939 by University of Kentucky archaeologists
under contract to the Works Progress Administration (WPA). No known
hazardous substances are present.
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual has been reasonably identified. The two
associated funerary objects are one ceramic human effigy head and one
lot ceramic. Site 15McL13, the Yankee site, was excavated by University
of Kentucky Museum of Anthropology staff under contract to the WPA in
September 1938. No known hazardous substances are present.
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual has been reasonably identified. The four
associated funerary objects are two lithic projectile points, one
lithic drill and one lot faunal. Site 15McL14, the Seton site,
underwent a limited test excavation by University of Kentucky Museum of
Anthropology staff under contract to the WPA in 1938. No known
hazardous substances are present.
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 human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The WSWM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 492 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 1,180 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee
Tribe; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 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 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 July 28, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the WSWM 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 WSWM 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: June 17, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11932 Filed 6-26-25; 8:45 am]
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