[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 240 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27362]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033145; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, 
Coshocton, OH

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum has completed an inventory of 
human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations. 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 Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum. 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 Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum at the 
address in this notice by January 18, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Bush, Director, Johnson-
Humrickhouse Museum, 300 N Whitewoman Street, Coshocton, OH 43812, 
telephone (740) 622-8710, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Johnson-
Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from Eshman Farm, Muskingum County, OH.
    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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Kent 
State University Anthropology Department and Johnson-Humrickhouse 
Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the 
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Seneca Nation of 
Indians [previously listed as Seneca Nation of New York]; and the 
Seneca-Caygua Nation [previously listed as Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of 
Oklahoma].

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1969, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from the Eshman Farm site in Muskingum County, OH. The 
site is situated upriver from the Muskingum River Bridge at Dresden. It 
contained a low burial mound located in the side yard near the Eschman 
House. This low burial mound was excavated by amateur archeologists 
Glenn Longaberger and Frank Stratman in 1969. The site collection was 
donated to the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in 1974, shortly after the 
death of Glenn Longaberger. The museum has no accession record or 
description of the excavation, except for a 1983 article in the Ohio 
Archaeologist by Jeff Carskadden and Jim Morton. The fragmentary human 
remains belong to an individual of unidentified sex thought to be 
between 20 and 34 years old. No known individual was identified. The 21 
associated funerary objects are 17 Terminal Woodland points and/or 
preforms, one banded slate gorget, one stone celt, and two mica sheets.
    Based on the mound architecture, the artifacts, and the known 
Hopewell presence in the area, Longaberger determined that the Eschman 
Farm site was occupied during the Hopewell Period (200 BCE to 500 CE). 
The Shawnee later moved into the site and established a village around 
the mound called Wakatomika (Carskadden and Morton, 1983). A cultural 
affiliation may be traced between the present-day Shawnee and Delaware 
Tribes and the earlier groups at the Eschman Farm site connected to the 
human remains and associated funerary objects listed in this notice.

Determinations Made by the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum

    Officials of the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum have determined that:
     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 21 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.
     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 associated funerary objects and the 
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, 
Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Seneca Nation of Indians [previously listed as Seneca Nation of New 
York]; Seneca-Caygua Nation [previously listed as Seneca-Cayuga Tribe 
of Oklahoma]; and the Shawnee Tribe (hereafter referred to as ``The 
Tribes'').

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 Jennifer Bush, Director, Johnson-Humrickhouse 
Museum, 300 North Whitewoman Street, Coshocton, OH 43812, telephone 
(740) 622-8710, email [email protected], by January 18, 2022. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to The 
Tribes may proceed.
    The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is responsible for notifying The 
Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: December 10, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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