[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 33641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11018]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035913; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Warren County Cultural & Heritage 
Affairs, Shippen Manor Museum, Oxford, NJ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Shippen Manor Museum has completed an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from Warren County, NJ.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after June 23, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Gina Rosseland, Warren County Cultural & Heritage Affairs, 
Shippen Manor Museum, 8 Belvidere Avenue, Oxford, NJ 07863, telephone 
(908) 453-4381.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
Shippen Manor Museum. The National Park Service is not responsible for 
the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the Shippen 
Manor Museum.

Description

    In 1966, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were found along the Delaware River in Pahaquarry, Warren County, NJ. 
Initially, these ancestral remains, together with associated funerary 
objects, were in the possession of White Township Historical Museum 
(Bridgeville, Warren County, NJ). Subsequently, they were brought to 
the Shippen Manor Museum by former curator Andrew Drysdale. The human 
remains belong to a juvenile male. No known individual was identified. 
The three associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of hammer 
stones, one lot consisting of rocks, and one lot consisting of 
arrowheads and/or flint.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were found 
at the King Cole site (Dayton's Burial Site #1) in Belvidere, Warren 
County, NJ, during an archeological excavation and brought to the 
Shippen Manor Museum by F. Dayton Staats at an unknown date. The human 
remains consist of bone and teeth belonging to an adolescent male, No 
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are 
present.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from the King Cole site in Belvidere, Warren County, NJ, and placed at 
the Shippen Manor Museum by F. Dayton Staats at an unknown date. The 
human remains consist of skull belonging to a female of unidentified 
age. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects 
are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice 
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity 
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures 
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The 
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the 
relationship: archeological, geographical, and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Shippen Manor Museum has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The three lots of funerary 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; 
Delaware Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge Munsee Community, 
Wisconsin.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 23, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Shippen Manor 
Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to 
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not 
competing requests. The Shippen Manor Museum is responsible for sending 
a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: May 17, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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