[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43395-43396]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14383]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036127; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: South Carolina Institute of 
Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 
SC

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 South Carolina Institute of Archaeology 
and Anthropology (SCIAA) has completed an inventory of associated 
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The associated 
funerary objects were removed from Lancaster County, SC.

DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice 
may occur on or after August 7, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Nina Schreiner, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and 
Anthropology (SCIAA), College of Arts and Sciences, University of South 
Carolina, 1321 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC 29208, email 
[email protected].

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 SCIAA. 
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 SCIAA.

Description

    In 1965, Mr. John R. Hart of York, SC, removed human remains 
belonging to one individual and 81 associated funerary objects from a 
``Historic Catawba Burial, near Van Wyck'' in Lancaster County, SC. In 
1981, following Mr. Hart's death, his son, Mr. John R. Hart III, 
donated these human remains and associated funerary objects to SCIAA. 
On January 12, 2023, this individual and 79 of the associated funerary 
objects were listed in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in 
the Federal Register (88 FR 2127-2128) and have been repatriated. 
Subsequently, two additional funerary objects associated with this 
individual were discovered in SCIAA collections. They are one lot 
consisting of soil matrix and one lot consisting of lithic objects.

Cultural Affiliation

    The 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

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more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following 
types of information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: 
archeological, geographical, and historical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, SCIAA has determined that:
     The two 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 associated funerary objects described 
in this notice and the Catawba Indian Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after August 7, 2023. If competing requests 
for repatriation are received, SCIAA must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a single 
request and not competing requests. SCIAA is responsible for sending a 
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe 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: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14383 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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