Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum, Chicago, IL, 86361-86362 [2023-27380]
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objects like glass beads and copper or
brass kettles. Bradley donated the
collection to the Robert S. Peabody
Institute of Archaeology in 1994. The
733 unassociated funerary objects and
objects of cultural patrimony are 32 lots
of faunal remains and modified faunal
remains; 87 lots of metal items and
fragments; 34 lots of ceramic sherds,
pipes, pendants, and ceramic fragments;
550 lots of stone tools, stone debitage,
and stone items; 24 lots of beads; one
shell button; one stone effigy; one gun
flint; one lot miscellaneous items; one
whetstone; and one glass shard.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: archeological
information, geographical information,
historical information, and expert
opinion.
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Robert S. Peabody
Institute of Archaeology has determined
that:
• The 733 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.
• The 733 cultural items described
above have ongoing historical,
traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group or
culture itself, rather than property
owned by an individual.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items and
the Onondaga Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible
Official identified in ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
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who shows, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the cultural items in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after January 12, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Robert S.
Peabody Institute of Archaeology 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 10.8, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037066;
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Field
Museum, Chicago, IL
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field
Museum has completed an inventory of
human remains and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this
notice. The human remains were
collected at an unknown location or
locations.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation
Director, Field Museum, 1400 S Lake
Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605,
telephone (312) 665–7317, email
hrobbins@fieldmuseum.org.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
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determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the Field Museum.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on
the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the Field Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual were
collected at an unknown location or
locations. The human remain is a hair
clipping belonging to one individual,
identified with the tribal designation
Wyandotte (Field Museum catalog
number #193207.9). Field Museum staff
believe this hair clipping was collected
under the direction of Franz Boas and
Frederick Ward Putnam for the 1893
World’s Columbian Exposition in
Chicago. The hair clippings were
accessioned into the Field Museum’s
collection in 1939. No information
regarding the individual’s name, sex,
age, or geographic location has been
found. No associated funerary objects
are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Field Museum has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the human remains
described in this notice and the
Wyandotte Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the
human remains in this notice must be
sent to the Responsible Official
identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for
repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations
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identified in this notice and, if joined to
a request from one or more of the Indian
Tribes, the Huron-Wendat Nation, a
non-federally recognized Indian group.
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
a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the human remains in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after January 12, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Field Museum must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Field Museum
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 10.9, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023–27380 Filed 12–12–23; 8:45 am]
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Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation, Missouri Basin Region,
Nebraska-Kansas Area Office,
McCook, NE
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area
Office (Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas
Area Office) 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. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Jewell, Mitchell, Norton,
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and Phillips Counties, KS, and from
Frontier County, NE.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after
January 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Catherine Griffin, Bureau of
Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area
Office, 1706 West 3rd Street, McCook,
NE 69001, telephone (308) 345–8324,
email cgriffin@usbr.gov.
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 Reclamation
Nebraska-Kansas Area Office. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the inventory or related records held
by the Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas
Area Office.
Description
14JW–HOFTS
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual were removed
from Jewell County, KS. Sometime prior
to 1982, a private citizen reported that
human remains were exposed on the
south shore of Lovewell Reservoir.
Native American archeological sites
with fragmentary human remains are
known to erode from the south shore of
Lovewell Reservoir. These sites date to
either the Plains Woodland period (A.D.
1–1000) or Plains Village period (A.D.
1000–1500). The Kansas Historical
Society (KHS) assigned Unmarked
Burial Sites (UBS) case number UBS
1991–52 to the human remains. The box
was labelled ‘‘Hofts Collection.’’ In
1995, Reclamation transferred the
human remains to the Wichita State
University’s Biological Anthropology
Laboratory (WSU–BAL) for inventory
and secure storage. The fragmentary
human remains belong to a young adult,
probably female, 20 to 30 years of age.
No associated funerary objects are
present.
14JW312
Human remains representing, at
minimum, 11 individuals were removed
from Jewell County, KS. In 1982, the
KHS, working under a cooperative
agreement with Reclamation, excavated
fragmentary and poorly preserved
human remains that were eroding into
Lovewell Reservoir at site 14JW312, aka
the Begin Ossuary. KHS excavated an
estimated 10 sets of commingled human
remains from a burial pit, and one set
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of human remains from an extended
primary burial. KHS assigned case
number UBS 1989–29 to the human
remains. In 1995, Reclamation
transferred the human remains and
associated funerary objects to WSU–
BAL for inventory and secure storage.
The fragmentary human remains
collected from 14JW312 belong to an
infant, a child, an adolescent, and male
and female adults. The four associated
funerary objects are one shell disc bead,
one lot consisting of pottery sherds
(from at least two different vessels), one
lot consisting of chipped stone debitage,
and one lot consisting of unmodified
deer bones. The associated funerary
objects date to the Upper Republican
phase of the Central Plains Tradition
(A.D. 950–1400).
14ML1
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual were removed
from Mitchell County, KS. In 1952, the
Smithsonian Institution’s River Basin
Surveys (SI–RBS) recommended that a
salvage excavation be conducted at the
late prehistoric village site 14ML1, aka
the Glen Elder Site, prior to its
destruction by construction of Glen
Elder Dam. In 1963, the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) excavated site
14ML1 under a cooperative agreement
with the National Park Service (NPS).
The 1963 excavation recovered two
human bones from a filled pit. In 2001,
graduate students working on faunal
and artifact curation found additional
human remains within the 14ML1
archeological collection. The
archeological materials from 14ML1
date to the Central Plains Tradition
(A.D. 1000–1500). In 2001, Reclamation
transferred the human remains to WSU–
BAL for inventory and secure storage.
The fragmentary human remains
collected from 14ML1 belong to a
mature adult of unknown sex. No
associated funerary objects are present.
14ML5
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual were removed
from Mitchell County, KS. In 1952, the
SI–RBS recommended that a salvage
excavation be conducted at the late
prehistoric village site 14ML5 prior to
its inundation by Glen Elder Dam and
Waconda Lake. From 1964 to 1965, the
UNL excavated site 14ML5 under a
cooperative agreement with the NPS.
UNL excavated two earthen lodge floors
and an extramural work area. Human
remains were excavated from an
unknown area within the site. The
archeological materials from site 14ML5
are associated with the Solomon River
phase of the Central Plains Tradition
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037066; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum, Chicago, IL
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 Field Museum has completed an inventory
of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were collected
at an unknown location or locations.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation Director, Field Museum, 1400 S
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone (312) 665-7317, email
[email protected].
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
Field Museum. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the Field
Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were
collected at an unknown location or locations. The human remain is a
hair clipping belonging to one individual, identified with the tribal
designation Wyandotte (Field Museum catalog number #193207.9). Field
Museum staff believe this hair clipping was collected under the
direction of Franz Boas and Frederick Ward Putnam for the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The hair clippings were accessioned
into the Field Museum's collection in 1939. No information regarding
the individual's name, sex, age, or geographic location has been found.
No associated funerary objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Field Museum has determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Wyandotte Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations
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identified in this notice and, if joined to a request from one or more
of the Indian Tribes, the Huron-Wendat Nation, a non-federally
recognized Indian group.
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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after January 12, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Field Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Field Museum 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 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-27380 Filed 12-12-23; 8:45 am]
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