Notice2026-11710
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, Columbia, MO
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Published
June 11, 2026
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology 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 91, Number 112 (Thursday, June 11, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35546-35547]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-11710]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N7197; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0042951; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of
Anthropology, Columbia, MO
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 Missouri, Museum of
Anthropology 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 13, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Candace Sall,
University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, 1020 Lowry Street,
Columbia, MO 65211, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#523c3335222033123f3b21213d27203b7c373627"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="244a454354564564494d57574b51564d0a414051">[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 Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, 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, 54 individuals have been
identified. The 6,440 associated funerary objects consist of multiple
lots of bifaces, ceramic fragments, ceramic vessels, charred wood, clay
pipes, cores, debitage, drills, faunal fragments, fired clay fragments,
glass fragments, groundstone objects, groundstone pipes, hafted
bifaces, hammerstones, hematite, historic
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ceramics, historic plastic, metal buttons, metal fragments, seeds,
shells or shell fragments, shell beads, soil samples, stone abraders,
stone axes, unifaces, and unmodified rocks.
The individuals and associated funerary objects described in this
notice were removed from sites in Clay, Craighead, Cross, Crittenden,
Mississippi, Phillips, Pointsett, and Randolph counties in Arkansas,
and includes the following sites: Miller Site (3CY34), Lawhorn Site
(3CG1), Nelley's Ferry (3CS24), Vernon Paul Site (3CS25), Rose Mound
(3CS27), Beck Site (3CT8), Gant Site (3MS11), Dupree Site (3PH1),
Porter Mound/Lepanto Cemetery (3PO2), Lester Hill Place (3RA24), and an
unknown location (UNPROV69), likely northeast Arkansas. The Lawhorn
Site (3CG1) was excavated from 1956-1960 by John Moselage, Missouri
Archaeological Society members, and other individuals. The individuals
and funerary objects from Gant Site (3MS11) were removed by Leo
Anderson and may have been housed at the Blue Springs Village Museum at
some point in time before being donated to the University of Missouri,
Museum of Anthropology and accessioned into the collection in 1979. The
individuals and funerary objects from Lester Hill Place (3RA24) were
removed during the Powers Phase excavations conducted by University of
Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These collections were
moved to many different locations (University of Michigan, Smithsonian
Museum, Midwest Archaeological Center of the National Park Service)
before physical custody and control of collections was transferred to
the University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology. All other
collections described in this notice were removed from their respective
sites and donated to the University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology
by unknown persons at unknown dates. No known hazardous substances were
used to treat the human remains or associated funerary objects.
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 Missouri, Museum of Anthropology has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 54 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 6,440 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 Quapaw
Nation.
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 July 13,
2026. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology 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 Missouri, Museum of Anthropology is responsible for sending a copy
of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice and any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 5, 2026.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2026-11710 Filed 6-10-26; 8:45 am]
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