[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 61 (Thursday, April 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17195-17196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-06659]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031611; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 8, 2020. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals. 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

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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 May 3, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Nell Murphy, 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 objects were removed from Fox Farm, May's Lick vicinity, in 
Mason County, KY.
    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 minimum number of individuals published in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (85 FR 55486-
55487, September 8, 2020). Museum staff discovered an inadvertent 
omission of one set of human remains from the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 55486, September 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In 1895, human remains representing, at minimum, 188 individuals 
were removed from May's Lick Vicinity, Fannie Fox Farm, Fox Farm 
Mason County, KY.

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 55486, September 8, 2020), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The human remains include 32 adult males; seven adults who may 
be male; 33 adult females; seven adults who may be female; 33 adults 
of indeterminate sex; three individuals whose age and sex are 
indeterminate; and 73 subadults. No known individuals were 
identified.

    In the Federal Register (85 FR 55487, September 8, 2020), column 1, 
paragraph 1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9) the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 188 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.

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, American Museum of Natural 
History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, 
telephone (212) 769-5837, email [email protected], by May 3, 2021. 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 Consulted Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: March 16, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2021-06659 Filed 3-31-21; 8:45 am]
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