[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 34319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13594]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: Rochester Museum & Science 
Center, Rochester, NY

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    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 in the possession of the 
Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY. The human remains 
were removed from Walworth County, SD.
    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. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the 
Rochester Museum & Science Center professional staff in consultation 
with representatives of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 
Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
    In the 1920s, human remains representing a minimum of one 
individual were removed from the Mobridge site (39WW1), Walworth 
County, SD, by W.H. Over. Mr. Over sold the human remains to the museum 
in 1927. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary 
objects are present.
    Osteological examination of the human remains indicates that they 
are of likely Native American ancestry. In Mobridge Site Cemeteries: 
Controversy Concerning the Location of the Over and Stirling Burials, 
Douglas W. Owsley identified a number of human remains from the 
Mobridge site as Arikara based on morphological traits (1981). 
Diagnostic architecture and artifacts found at the Mobridge site, 
including circular, semi-subterranean structures and Native-made glass 
pendants, indicate that the human remains were probably buried by the 
Arikara during the post-contact Coalescent Traditional period (A.D. 
1675-1780). In 1870, the Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan tribes were moved 
to the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Descendants of 
the Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan are members of the Three Affiliated 
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
    Officials of the Rochester Museum & Science Center have determined 
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described 
above represent the physical remains of one individual of Native 
American ancestry. Officials of the Rochester Museum & Science Center 
also have determined that, 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 Three Affiliated 
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Gian 
Carlo Cervone, Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue, 
Rochester, NY 14607-2177, telephone (585) 271-4552, ext. 310, before 
July 17, 2008. Repatriation of the human remains to the Three 
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota may 
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
    The Rochester Museum & Science Center is responsible for notifying 
the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 
Dakota that this notice has been published.

    Dated: May 12, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-13594 Filed 6-16-08; 8:45 am]
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