[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 60 (Thursday, March 28, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 11820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-06004]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027387; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The American Museum of Natural 
History, New York, NY; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The American Museum of Natural History has corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects published in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on September 
10, 2018. This notice corrects the number of associated funerary 
objects. 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 American Museum 
of Natural History. 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 American Museum of Natural History at the 
address in this notice by April 29, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Nell Murphy, Director of Cultural Resources, American Museum 
of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 
10024, telephone (212) 769-5837, 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 correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the American Museum of 
Natural History, New York, NY. The human remains and associated 
funerary object were removed from Brentwood, Williamson County, TN.
    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.
    This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(83 FR 45667-45669, September 10, 2018). An associated funerary object 
that was included in the inventory was inadvertently omitted from the 
Notice of Inventory Completion. Transfer of control of the item in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 45668, September 10, 2018), column 
1, paragraph 7, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The one associated funerary object is a ceramic vase.
    In the Federal Register (83 FR 45668, September 10, 2018), column 
2, paragraph 1, sentence 3 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the three 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.

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 Nell Murphy, Director of Cultural Resources, 
American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, 
New York, NY 10024, telephone (212) 769-5837, email [email protected], 
by April 29, 2019. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma 
may proceed.
    The American Museum of Natural History is responsible for notifying 
the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta 
Tribe of Texas (previously listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of 
Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe 
of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe 
of Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town; Poarch Band of Creeks (previously 
listed as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama); Seminole Tribe 
of Florida (previously listed as the Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, 
Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)); Shawnee Tribe; 
The Chickasaw Nation; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation 
of Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town; and the United Keetoowah Band of 
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this notice has been published.

    Dated: February 25, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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