Notice2025-23340
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida-Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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Published
December 19, 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 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 242 (Friday, December 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59544-59545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23340]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6752; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041533; 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 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 January 20, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to David Blackburn,
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum
Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#521c33352220331d34343b313712343e3d203b36333f272137273f7c27343e7c373627"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="743a15130406153b12121d17113412181b061d10151901071101195a0112185a111001">[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
University of Florida-Florida Museum of Natural History, 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, two individuals have been
identified from the Little Salt Springs (8SO18), in Sarasota County,
Florida. The 14,604 associated funerary objects include
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shell, faunal bone, and nine fragments of ceramic pottery. This site is
a submerged, multi-component site from the Paleo-Indian and Archaic
periods. Accession 4165 was presented by amateur archaeologists, Col.
William Royal, November 3rd, 1959. Accession 2002-53 was found in a
cabinet during skeletal reorganization during the summer of 2002. The
Ancestor was labeled as ``8UW72, WR-1959-061''. Jim Dunbar believed
that this accession is associated with Goggin and Clausen 1959.
Accession 2003-13 was loaned to Arizona State University (ASU). ASU
transferred it back in 2003; it was part of a bulk transfer (including
accessions 2003-12 and 14). All of these accessions had ties to the
Florida Bureau of Archaeological research, but it was agreed to
transfer the accessions to the Florida Museum of Natural History for
curation.
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 University of Florida-Florida Museum of Natural History has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 14,604 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 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 January
20, 2026. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of Florida-Florida Museum of Natural History 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
University of Florida-Florida Museum of Natural History 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: December 3, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23340 Filed 12-18-25; 8:45 am]
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