[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 126 (Friday, July 1, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39553-39554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14094]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034118; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY, and Buffalo Bill 
Historical Center, Cody, WY; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone 
National Forest, has corrected an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register of February 22, 2006. 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 Shoshone National Forest. 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 Shoshone National Forest at the address in 
this notice by August 1, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wade McMaster, Acting Forest 
Supervisor, Shoshone National Forest, 808 Meadow Lane Avenue, Cody, WY 
82414, telephone (307) 578-5187, 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 U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY, and in 
the physical custody of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the 
Mummy Cave site in Park County, WY.
    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 description of the human remains and the 
number of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (71 FR 9148, February 22, 
2006). Following re-examination, the associated funerary objects now 
include all items removed from level 3/cultural level 36. Transfer of 
control of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Corrections

    1. In the Federal Register of February 22, 2006, FR Doc #E6-2445, 
page 9148, column 2, paragraph 4, sentence 4, ``The one associated 
funerary object is a mountain sheep hide that was used to wrap the 
individual,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    The 44 associated funerary objects are one lot of animal parts 
that include bone, hair, horn, antler, teeth, and hide; one lot of 
arrow shafts wrapped in sinew; one lot of grass bundles; two lots of 
burial matrix; one lot of burial stones; one lot of calcite 
crystals; one lot of charred wood; one lot of coiled basketry 
fragments; one coprolite containing cordage; one lot of cordage 
netting; one lot of feather and fibers; one lot of modified and 
unmodified feathers; one lot of fish parts; one lot of grass 
moccasin liners; one lot of knotted cordage; one lot of knotted 
fiber or netting; one lot of lithics; one lot of matted grass; one 
lot of moccasin fragments; one lot of modified animal hide with and 
without hair; one lot of modified bark; one lot of modified bone; 
one lot of modified plant fiber; one lot of modified wood; one lot 
of pigment contained in a bag; one lot of plant fiber; one lot of 
plant fiber cordage; one lot of reed fragments; one sheep skin robe; 
one roving; one lot of seeds; one lot of sewn animal hide with hair; 
one lot of shell; one lot of sinew; one lot of sticks and reeds with 
binding; one stone wrapped and tied with plant material; one lot of 
stones; one strung bow; one twisted wool cord; one lot of unmodified 
wood; one lot of worked animal horn; one lot of worked antler; and 
one piece of work fossilized wood.

    2. In the Federal Register of February 22, 2006, FR Doc #E6-2445, 
page 9148, column 3, paragraph 1, sentence 2, ``The human remains, 
representing an older Native American male, were recovered from an 
intentional stone-covered burial in level 3 of the cave,'' is corrected 
by substituting the following sentence:

    The human remains, representing a male aged 35-40 years, were 
recovered from an intentional burial in level 3/cultural level 36 of 
the cave.

    In the Federal Register of February 22, 2006, FR Doc #E6-2445, page 
9148, column 3, paragraph 2, sentence 2, ``Officials of Shoshone 
National Forest also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 
3001(3)(A), the one object described above is 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,'' is corrected by 
substituting the following sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 44 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 Wade McMaster, Acting Forest Supervisor, 
Shoshone National Forest, 808 Meadow Lane Avenue, Cody, WY 82414, 
telephone (307) 578-5187, email [email protected], by August 1, 
2022. After that date, if no

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additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Eastern Shoshone 
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (previously listed as 
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming); and the 
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation may proceed.
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone 
National Forest is responsible for notifying the Eastern Shoshone Tribe 
of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (previously listed as Shoshone 
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming) and the Shoshone-Bannock 
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: June 22, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-14094 Filed 6-30-22; 8:45 am]
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