[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 56 (Monday, March 23, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 16378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-06034]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0029883; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Baylor University's Mayborn 
Museum Complex, (Formerly Baylor University's Strecker Museum; formerly 
Baylor University Museum), Waco, TX; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex (formerly 
Baylor University's Strecker Museum; formerly Baylor University Museum) 
has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register on March 1, 2019. This notice corrects the cultural 
affiliation. 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 Baylor University's 
Mayborn Museum Complex. If no additional requestors come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects to the 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 Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex at 
the address in this notice by April 22, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Anita L. Benedict, Baylor University's Mayborn Museum 
Complex, One Bear Place #97154, Waco, TX 76798-7154, telephone (254) 
710-4835, 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 Baylor University's 
Mayborn Museum Complex, Waco, TX. The human remains and associated 
funerary object were removed from a dry cave 25 miles northwest of 
Toyah, Reeves County, TX.
    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 cultural affiliation published in a Notice 
of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (84 FR 7115-7116, March 
1, 2019). An offer of disposition, which was followed by phone calls, 
emails, and brief in-person conversations, was extended to the Apache 
Tribe of Oklahoma; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Fort Sill 
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 
Reservation, New Mexico; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos 
Reservation, Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain 
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; and the Yavapai-
Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona, hereby 
referred to as ``The Tribes Whose Aboriginal Territory includes Reeves 
County, TX'', in compliance with 43 CFR 10.11 before a relationship of 
shared group identity could be established. Transfer of control of the 
items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (84 FR 7116, March 1, 2019), column 2, 
paragraph 1 under the heading ``Determinations Made by Baylor 
University's Mayborn Museum Complex'' is corrected by replacing the 
paragraph with the following paragraph:
    Officials of Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American, based on the preservation, 
associated funerary object, and museum documentation.
     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(3)(A), the one object 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), a relationship of shared 
group identity can be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and associated funerary object and the Tonkawa Tribe of 
Indians of Oklahoma, based on geography and oral tradition.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    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 object should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Anita L. 
Benedict, Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex, One Bear Place 
#97154, Waco, TX 76798-7154, telephone (254) 710-4835, email 
[email protected], by April 22, 2020. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary object to the Tonkawa Tribe of 
Indians of Oklahoma may proceed.
    The Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex is responsible for 
notifying The Consulted Tribes and The Tribes Whose Aboriginal 
Territory includes Reeves County, TX, that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: February 19, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-06034 Filed 3-20-20; 8:45 am]
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