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human remains and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request
with information in support of the
request to Jeremy Angstadt, Sandusky
Library, 114 West Adams Street,
Sandusky, OH 44870, telephone (419)
625–3834, email jangstadt@
sanduskylib.org, by September 10, 2020.
After that date, if no additional
requestors have come forward, transfer
of control of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to The
Aboriginal Land Tribes may proceed.
The Sandusky Library is responsible
for notifying The Consulted Tribes and
The Invited Tribes that this notice has
been published.
Dated: July 7, 2020.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce
Museum, Inc., Greenwich, CT
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bruce Museum has
completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects,
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 associated funerary
objects 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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written
request to the Bruce Museum. If no
additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains
and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request
with information in support of the
request to the Bruce Museum at the
SUMMARY:
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address in this notice by September 10,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Kirsten J. Reinhardt,
NAGPRA Coordinator, Bruce Museum
Inc., 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT
06830, telephone (203) 413–6770, email
kreinhardt@brucemuseum.org.
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 and associated
funerary objects under the control of the
Bruce Museum Inc., Greenwich, CT.
The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from
Terra Ceia Bay Shore Site, Manatee
County, FL.
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 human remains and
associated funerary objects. 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 Bruce
Museum professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and the
Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously
listed as Seminole Tribe of Florida
(Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton,
Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)).
History and Description of the Remains
In 1894–95, human remains
representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from a site on
the eastern shore of Terra Ceia Bay,
across from Terra Ceia Island, in
present-day Palm View, Manatee
County, FL. Edward S. Hubbard,
founder of the East Coast Railroad,
collected the human remains, and
Wilbur F. Smith, of Norwalk, CT,
collected the associated funerary
objects. In 1937, Hubbard transferred
the human remains to Smith, and in
1938, Smith donated the human
remains to the Bruce Museum. Smith
transferred the associated funerary
objects to the Bruce Museum through
donations in 1938 and 1940. In a 1937
letter to Bruce Museum curator Paul G.
Howes, Smith described the site as a
burial mound about twenty feet across
and four feet high, which had been
constructed with pure white sand that
must have been imported from miles
away, as there was no similar sand in
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the vicinity. Smith also wrote, ‘‘From
my study the mound was one of the
Calusa Indians, the tribe that inhabited
the Tampa Bay region and were very
numerous at the time the Spaniards
discovered the country in the middle
1500s and later exterminated the
Indians.’’ The mound was leveled when
the land was made part of the Palm
View development during the ‘‘Florida
Boom.’’
The human remains were determined
to be Native American by Connecticut
State Archaeologist, Nicholas
Bellantoni, who performed a skeletal
and dentition analysis on October 25,
1995, together with Ed Sarabia, Tlingit,
Indian Affairs Coordinator, Connecticut
Commission on Indian Affairs. The
human remains are comprised of a
cranium belonging to a female 20–30
years old, based on dentition. Parts of
the right condial, left coronoid process,
and left and right zygomatic arches were
restored with red ‘‘Marblex,’’ and the
mandible was reconstructed and
reattached to the restored skull at the
Bruce Museum in 1938, by curator Paul
G. Howes. No known individual was
identified. The 20 associated funerary
objects are four strands of glass beads of
various color and shape; one strand of
brown and white puka shell beads; four
loose blue glass beads; one large clear,
faceted glass bead; one large black,
faceted button; one single slot brass bell;
and eight pottery sherds.
The exact date or period associated
with the site is unknown, as few reliable
temporal indictors were recovered or
recorded. Nonetheless, the presence of
European trade goods, St. Johns
Checked pottery, and Safety Harbor
Incised pottery suggests a Woodland/
Mississippian-into-early Historic
designation.
Geographical, archeological,
historical, and legal information, in
addition to the known historical
presence of the Seminole Tribe of
Florida in the area encompassing the
State of Florida, support a relationship
of shared group identity which can be
reasonably traced between the presentday Seminole Tribe of Florida and the
pre-contact tribes who established tribal
towns recorded by European explorers
in the region of present-day Manatee
and Seminole Counties.
Determinations Made by the Bruce
Museum, Inc.
Officials of the Bruce Museum, Inc.
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.
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• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the 20 objects described in this notice
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.
• 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 associated funerary objects
and the Seminole Tribe of Florida
(previously listed as Seminole Tribe of
Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton,
Hollywood & Tampa Reservations).
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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to Kirsten J. Reinhardt,
NAGPRA Coordinator, Bruce Museum
Inc., 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT
06830, telephone (203) 413–6770, email
kreinhardt@brucemuseum.org, by
September 10, 2020. After that date, if
no additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Seminole Tribe of Florida
(previously listed as Seminole Tribe of
Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton,
Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)) may
proceed.
The Bruce Museum, Inc. is
responsible for notifying the
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and the
Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously
listed as Seminole Tribe of Florida
(Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton,
Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)) that
this notice has been published.
Dated: July 7, 2020.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020–17489 Filed 8–10–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030597;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce
Museum, Inc., Greenwich, CT
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Bruce Museum has
completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects,
in consultation with the appropriate
SUMMARY:
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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations, and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary
objects 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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written
request to the Bruce Museum. If no
additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains
and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request
with information in support of the
request to the Bruce Museum at the
address in this notice by September 10,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Kirsten J. Reinhardt,
NAGPRA Coordinator, Bruce Museum
Inc., 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT
06830, telephone (203) 413–6770, email
kreinhardt@brucemuseum.org.
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 and associated
funerary objects under the control of the
Bruce Museum Inc., Greenwich, CT.
The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from the
Cobb Island Drive Site, Greenwich
Municipal Building Site, and the Gravel
Pit Old Greenwich Site, Fairfield
County, CT.
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 human remains and
associated funerary objects. 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 Bruce
Museum professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware
Tribe of Indians; Mashantucket Pequot
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Indian Tribe (previously listed as
Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of
Connecticut); Mohegan Tribe of Indians
of Connecticut (previously listed as
Mohegan Indian Tribe of Connecticut);
and the Narragansett Indian Tribe
(hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted
Tribes’’).
History and Description of the Remains
In 1927, human remains representing,
at minimum, seven individuals were
removed from the Cobb Island Drive
Site in Fairfield, CT, by Paul G. Howes.
Howes, a curator at the Bruce Museum,
examined local earth-moving
construction projects after the initial
digging was complete, where
‘‘unearthed in shallow ground 21⁄2 feet
deep, at Cos Cob, all pieces of bones and
parts of several skulls, including infants
and some deer bone were found together
helter skelter’’ (Bruce Museum
accession card number 6795). Howes
described an ‘‘Extensive collection (four
boxes) of badly deteriorated and
incomplete human skeletal remains
representing a woman and a child,
possibly others, recovered from a
shallow, 2′6″ to 4′ deep pit that also
contained crushed white-tailed deer
bones’’ (Bruce Museum exhibition label,
c. 1927). Another label reads, ‘‘This
badly broken cranium was found two
feet below the surface at Cos Cob
Connecticut in May, 1927. A few of the
fragments have been fitted together
showing a long narrow skull, the shape
of which is doubtless due in part to
pressure after burial. The skull is that of
a female considerably younger than the
Old Greenwich (Gravel Pit, Old
Greenwich Site) find and was possibly
an Indian burial.’’ It appears that Howes
returned to the site ten years later.
Another exhibition label, c. 1938 reads,
‘‘The incomplete skeleton shown here is
that of a woman. The bones were
unearthed at Cos Cob in October 1937
and they are very old, so old indeed that
it was necessary to especially treat them
to prevent their eventual falling to
pieces. They were in a shallow grave
(four feet) and with them were other
bones, some of the white-tailed deer and
other mammals; others were human
remains from which the frontal part of
a child’s skull was reconstructed.’’
The seven individuals include one
probable male, 30–40 years old; one
probable female, 20–25 years old; one
probable male, 20–30 years old; one
female, 15–20 years old; one female, 18–
22 years old; one infant, one-to-two
years old; and one infant one-and-a-half
to two years old of indeterminate sex.
No known individuals were identified.
No associated funerary objects are
present.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030602; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce Museum, Inc., Greenwich, CT
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bruce Museum has completed an inventory of human remains
and associated funerary objects, 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
associated funerary objects 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
and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the
Bruce Museum. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to the Bruce Museum at the address in this
notice by September 10, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Kirsten J. Reinhardt, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bruce Museum Inc.,
1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830, telephone (203) 413-6770, email
[email protected].
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 and
associated funerary objects under the control of the Bruce Museum Inc.,
Greenwich, CT. The human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed from Terra Ceia Bay Shore Site, Manatee County, FL.
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 human remains and associated funerary objects. 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 Bruce
Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and the Seminole Tribe of Florida
(previously listed as Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress,
Brighton, Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)).
History and Description of the Remains
In 1894-95, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from a site on the eastern shore of Terra Ceia Bay, across
from Terra Ceia Island, in present-day Palm View, Manatee County, FL.
Edward S. Hubbard, founder of the East Coast Railroad, collected the
human remains, and Wilbur F. Smith, of Norwalk, CT, collected the
associated funerary objects. In 1937, Hubbard transferred the human
remains to Smith, and in 1938, Smith donated the human remains to the
Bruce Museum. Smith transferred the associated funerary objects to the
Bruce Museum through donations in 1938 and 1940. In a 1937 letter to
Bruce Museum curator Paul G. Howes, Smith described the site as a
burial mound about twenty feet across and four feet high, which had
been constructed with pure white sand that must have been imported from
miles away, as there was no similar sand in the vicinity. Smith also
wrote, ``From my study the mound was one of the Calusa Indians, the
tribe that inhabited the Tampa Bay region and were very numerous at the
time the Spaniards discovered the country in the middle 1500s and later
exterminated the Indians.'' The mound was leveled when the land was
made part of the Palm View development during the ``Florida Boom.''
The human remains were determined to be Native American by
Connecticut State Archaeologist, Nicholas Bellantoni, who performed a
skeletal and dentition analysis on October 25, 1995, together with Ed
Sarabia, Tlingit, Indian Affairs Coordinator, Connecticut Commission on
Indian Affairs. The human remains are comprised of a cranium belonging
to a female 20-30 years old, based on dentition. Parts of the right
condial, left coronoid process, and left and right zygomatic arches
were restored with red ``Marblex,'' and the mandible was reconstructed
and reattached to the restored skull at the Bruce Museum in 1938, by
curator Paul G. Howes. No known individual was identified. The 20
associated funerary objects are four strands of glass beads of various
color and shape; one strand of brown and white puka shell beads; four
loose blue glass beads; one large clear, faceted glass bead; one large
black, faceted button; one single slot brass bell; and eight pottery
sherds.
The exact date or period associated with the site is unknown, as
few reliable temporal indictors were recovered or recorded.
Nonetheless, the presence of European trade goods, St. Johns Checked
pottery, and Safety Harbor Incised pottery suggests a Woodland/
Mississippian-into-early Historic designation.
Geographical, archeological, historical, and legal information, in
addition to the known historical presence of the Seminole Tribe of
Florida in the area encompassing the State of Florida, support a
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced
between the present-day Seminole Tribe of Florida and the pre-contact
tribes who established tribal towns recorded by European explorers in
the region of present-day Manatee and Seminole Counties.
Determinations Made by the Bruce Museum, Inc.
Officials of the Bruce Museum, Inc. 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.
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Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 20 objects described
in this notice 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.
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 associated funerary objects and the Seminole
Tribe of Florida (previously listed as Seminole Tribe of Florida
(Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & Tampa Reservations).
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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to Kirsten J. Reinhardt, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Bruce Museum Inc., 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830, telephone (203)
413-6770, email [email protected], by September 10, 2020.
After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously listed as Seminole
Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & Tampa
Reservations)) may proceed.
The Bruce Museum, Inc. is responsible for notifying the Miccosukee
Tribe of Indians and the Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously listed
as Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood &
Tampa Reservations)) that this notice has been published.
Dated: July 7, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-17489 Filed 8-10-20; 8:45 am]
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