Notice2025-16110
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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Published
August 22, 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 has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 161 (Friday, August 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41119-41120]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16110]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6454; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040874; 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 has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after September 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Megan Fry, University of Florida, Florida Museum of
Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#450b24223537240a23232c26200523292a372c21242830362030286b3023296b202130"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b1ffd0d6c1c3d0fed7d7d8d2d4f1d7dddec3d8d5d0dcc4c2d4c4dc9fc4d7dd9fd4d5c4">[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
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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing at least one individual from Monkey
Jungle Hammock (8DA2100) are present at the Florida Museum of Natural
History. There are no associated funerary objects from the site. The
site is a dry sinkhole. Bone and fossils were accumulated by a
combination of deadfall trap and mammalian and avian predators. Lewis
Ober and William Weaver of Miami Dade College noticed fossil bones
weathering out of sediment that had been excavated out of a sinkhole to
form an alligator habitat at the Monkey Jungle zoological park. No in
situ sediment was available for excavation, therefore there is no
contextual information available for the context of the material from
the site. The Ancestor was collected between 1969 and 1970.
The collection came to FLMNH by way of Frank Dumond, the general
manager of Monkey Jungle who granted access to property and site
collected by Lewis D. Ober, William G. Weaver, and Miami-Dade Community
College students from 1969-1989 (Morgan and Seymour, 1997). Metro-Dade
Archaeology crew also collected specimens in 1980. Vertebrate fossils
were then deposited with FLMNH. In reviewing the 1969 accession, FLMNH
found a single human mandible among the collection.
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 described in this
notice.
Determinations
The FLMNH has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Seminole Tribe of
Florida; and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after September 22, 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 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: August 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-16110 Filed 8-21-25; 8:45 am]
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