Notice2025-16112
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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Published
August 22, 2025
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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 161 (Friday, August 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 41121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16112]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6462; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040876; 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 September 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects 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#89c7e8eef9fbe8c6efefe0eaecc9efe5e6fbe0ede8e4fcfaecfce4a7fcefe5a7ecedfc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c886a9afb8baa987aeaea1abad88aea4a7baa1aca9a5bdbbadbda5e6bdaea4e6adacbd">[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 one individual from Culter
Fossil Site (8DA2001) is present at the Florida Museum of Natural
History. There are 257 associated funerary objects. A total of 11
associated funerary objects are housed in the Vertebrate Paleontology
collections at FLMNH, and consist of fossil vertebrates, namely
dentition from peccaries, dire wolves, and white-tailed deer, and
skeletal elements of a mourning dove and a jaguar. The remaining 246
are housed in the Environmental Archaeology collection, at FLMNH, and
include charred faunal bone, land shell, and coprolites. The site is a
sinkhole which includes fossils from extinct and extant vertebrates.
The site was heavily vandalized. Robert Carr, the archaeologist for
Dade County, was able to recover most of the material which had been
``shipped to different parts of the country''. He subsequently
undertook a rescue excavation to record what information was still in
situ. Cutler Fossil Site features evidence of human use dating to
roughly 9,700 BP, lasting through the Archaic (5,000-2,500 BP) and into
the Glades period (A.D. 1,000 BP-1750). Carr sent the various
collection types from the site to differing institutions. The Ancestors
were sent to the University of Massachusetts. The artifacts were sent
to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. The vertebrate
paleontological material came to FLMNH. The Ancestors at FLMNH consist
of a small collection of human dentition, which was likely overlooked
or misidentified when they were separating out the collections and
unintentionally sent to FLMNH with the paleontological material.
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 FLMNH has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 257 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 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 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 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 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: August 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-16112 Filed 8-21-25; 8:45 am]
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