Notice of Inventory Completion: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 41982-41983 [2017-18682]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 5, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41982-41983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18682]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0023837; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 
NJ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The New Jersey State Museum has completed an inventory of 
human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and present-day Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of 
these human remains should submit a written request to the New Jersey 
State Museum. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains 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 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the New 
Jersey State Museum at the address in this notice by October 5, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Gregory D. Lattanzi, Bureau of Archaeology & Ethnology, 
New Jersey State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625, 
telephone (609) 984-9327, email gregory.lattanzi@sos.nj.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
    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

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this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or 
Federal agency that has control of the Native American human remains. 
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in 
this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the New 
Jersey State Museum professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.

History and Description of the Remains

    Sometime after 1868, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were collected by Mr. Charles A. Philhower of Westfield, NJ. 
The human remains were donated to Rutgers University, Special 
Collections and Library and, in 1972, transferred to the New Jersey 
State Museum as a permanent loan. In 2010, the Philhower collection was 
permanently accessioned into the New Jersey State Museum. The human 
remains consist of a hair lock and scalp representing one male of 
indeterminate age. A note accompanying the scalp lock reads ``Taken 
from the head of a Pawnee Indian by an Indian wagon driver, Alapthe, 
along the old Santa Fe Trail near Wagon Mound in the center of New 
Mexico, year 1868.'' No known individual was identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.

Determinations Made by the New Jersey State Museum

    Officials of the New Jersey State Museum have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American human remains and the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Dr. 
Gregory D. Lattanzi, Bureau of Archaeology & Ethnology, New Jersey 
State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625, telephone (609) 
984-9327, email gregory.lattanzi@sos.nj.gov, by October 5, 2017. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains to the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma may 
proceed.
    The New Jersey State Museum is responsible for notifying the Pawnee 
Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has been published.

    Dated: August 29, 2017.
Sarah Glass,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2017-18682 Filed 9-1-17; 8:45 am]
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