Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; Correction, 23572 [2015-09899]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 81 (Tuesday, April 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 23572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-09899]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beneski Museum of 
Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College has 
corrected a Notice of Intent to Repatriate published in the Federal 
Register on February 5, 2015. This notice corrects the number of 
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of 
any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this 
notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written 
request to the Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College. If 
no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the 
cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native 
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to the Beneski Museum of Natural 
History, Amherst College at the address in this notice by May 28, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Tekla A. Harms, NAGPRA Coordinator, Beneski Museum of 
Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, telephone (413) 
542-2233, email taharms@amherst.edu.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate a cultural item under the 
control of the Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, 
Amherst, MA that meets the definition of unassociated funerary objects 
under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The 
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the number of unassociated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Intent to Repatriate in the Federal Register 
(80 FR 6538-6539, February 5, 2015). Unrelated work in the museum 
collections uncovered this additional artifact incorrectly stored. 
Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has not 
occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6539, February 5, 2015), paragraph 
1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College (Beneski 
Museum) holds 119 cultural items that are documented to have been, 
or can reasonably be inferred to have been unassociated funerary 
objects that were removed from the state of Florida.

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6539, February 5, 2015), paragraph 
3, sentences 1 and 2 are corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The Beneski Museum holds 38 cultural items obtained from 
Clarence B. Moore of Philadelphia, most--if not all--received in 
1872. These cultural items are: five stone sinkers and two shell 
sinkers from 3 miles east of Marco, Lee County, FL; one shell celt 
from near Marco, Lee County, FL; six stone sinkers or pendants, five 
shell sinkers or pendants, and five shell beads from Marco Island, 
Ten Thousand Islands, Lee County, FL; five stone sinkers or 
pendants, five whorled shell sinkers or pendants, one awl of whorled 
shell, one shell gorget, and one large shell ring from Addison's 
Key, near Marco, Lee County, FL; one conch shell cup from a mound on 
a key in Gasparilla Sound, DeSoto or Charlotte County, FL.

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6539, February 5, 2015), paragraph 
8, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    Multiple lines of evidence--guided by tribal consultations--
including geographic, oral tradition, historical, and aboriginal 
land claims, demonstrate a shared group identity between these 119 
cultural items and the modern-day Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; 
Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously listed as the Seminole Tribe 
of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & Tampa 
Reservations)); and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6539, February 5, 2015), paragraph 
8, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    It is reasonable to conclude that all 119 cultural items listed 
here were intended to rest as funerary objects and were obtained 
from burial mounds.

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6539, February 5, 2015), paragraph 
9, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    Officials of the Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst 
College have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 119 cultural 
items described above are reasonably believed to have been placed 
with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later 
as part of the death rite or ceremony and are believed, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific 
burial site of a Native American individual.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Tekla Harms, NAGPRA Coordinator, Beneski 
Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, 
telephone (413) 542-2233, email taharms@amherst.edu, by May 28, 2015. 
After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer 
of control of the unassociated funerary object to the Miccosukee Tribe 
of Indians may proceed.
    The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College is 
responsible for notifying the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians that this 
notice has been published.

    Dated: March 20, 2015.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Program Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2015-09899 Filed 4-27-15; 8:45 am]
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