[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 184 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53341-53342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20915]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0032675; 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 (AMNH) has corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published 
in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on January 
16, 2014. 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 October 27, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 the Sebonac site in Shinnecock 
Hills, Suffolk County, NY.
    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 
(79 FR 2876-2877, January 16, 2014). The Museum recently received 
archival documentation housed in a different institution that pertains 
to the AMNH's excavations at Shinnecock Hills. This new information has 
led Museum staff to identify additional associated funerary objects. 
Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has not 
occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 2877, January 16, 2014), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 3 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 145 associated funerary objects are 109 ceramic sherds; two 
fragmentary turtle shell cups; one fragmentary turtle shell; one lot 
of burnt earth; one gun flint; one draw shave scraper; one lot of 
oyster shells; one grinding stone; one fragmentary steatite dish; 
one fragment of a soapstone object; one net sinker; one broken bone 
awl; two clay concretions (one of which is ornamented with lines); 
one clay disk; two lots of marine shells; one animal jaw; one 
serrated quartz scrapper or saw; one lot of animal bones (including 
deer antler, deer, bird, fish and turtle bone); one lot of animal 
bone (including deer antler, a tooth and split deer bones); one lot 
of animal bone including a sturgeon scale and piece of turtle shell; 
one lot of charred fish bones; one lot of marine shells and animal 
tooth; seven quartz tools; one lot of lithic debitage and clay dog: 
And four lots of lithic debitage.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 2877, January 16, 2014), column 2, 
paragraph 1, bullet point 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 145 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

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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 October 27, 2021. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Shinnecock Indian 
Nation may proceed.
    The American Museum of Natural History is responsible for notifying 
the Cayuga Nation; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Mashantucket Pequot 
Indian Tribe [previously listed as Mashantucket Pequot Tribe of 
Connecticut]; Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut [previously 
listed as Mohegan Indian Tribe of Connecticut]; Narragansett Indian 
Tribe; Oneida Indian Nation [previously listed as Oneida Nation of New 
York]; Oneida Nation [previously listed as Oneida Tribe of Indians of 
Wisconsin]; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe [previously 
listed as St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York]; Seneca Nation 
of Indians [previously listed as Seneca Nation of New York]; Seneca-
Cayuga Nation [previously listed as Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma]; 
Shinnecock Indian Nation; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; 
Tuscarora Nation; and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) that 
this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 21, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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