[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8715-8716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02559]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037352; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Nassau County Department of 
Parks, Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen 
Cove, NY

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 Nassau County Department of Parks, 
Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve 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 Suffolk County, NY.

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DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 11, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Veronica Natale, Museum Director--Garvies Point Museum and 
Preserve, 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove, NY 11542, telephone (516) 571-
8010, email [email protected] and Darcy Belyea, Commissioner 
of Parks, Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums, 
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 the 
Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums. 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 Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and 
Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve.

Description

    In 1966, Nassau County Museum (NCM) Archaeologists recovered the 
partial human remains of, at minimum, two male adults found in a single 
grave during development of an area for housing. They were removed from 
NCM Site #1, Catalog number 1-1, Stony Hollow-Water's Edge, Centerport, 
Suffolk County, NY. Six associated funerary objects; Levanna points 
were found in association with grave; four have been located. 
Archeological evidence dates the human remains to the Late Woodland 
period.
    Sometime between 1966-1969, a fragmentary human skull, representing 
at minimum, one individual was found by others at an unknown location 
and removed from Strong's Neck, Suffolk County, NY. In 1969, the 
cranial fragments were donated to the museum by Ken Robinson, an 
archeologist involved at this site, Catalog number 63-x-113. No 
associated funerary objects are present. Time period is unknown.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 24 individuals were removed 
from Suffolk County, NY. (Catalog number 132-x-1) Provenance: NCM #32, 
Soak Hides, Three Mile Harbor, NY. No associated funerary objects are 
present. Archeological evidence dates the site and human remains to the 
Woodland period.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from Suffolk County, NY. (Catalog number 136-79) Excavated by Suffolk 
County Police, March 1971. Medical Examiner #0706. Site was located on 
private property of Mr. Paul Windels Jr. and he subsequently donated 
the human remains to the museum in 1972. Provenance: NCM #136, Stony 
Brook Harbor site, Nissequogue, NY. 11 associated funerary objects were 
found which include eight quartz projectile point fragments, a bead, 
deer scapula fragment, and fire-cracked hammerstone. Site has late 
Archaic through Late Woodland time.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from Suffolk County, NY. (Catalog number 151-x) The frontal bone of a 
skull and two small skull fragments. Recovered by a bayman with clam 
tongs. Provenance: NCM Site #151, Plax site, Westhampton Beach, NY. 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, historical, kinship, oral 
tradition, and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and 
Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 29 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 15 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 Shinnecock Indian Nation.

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 March 11, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Nassau County 
Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and 
Preserve 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 Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation 
and Museums--Garvies Point Museum and Preserve is responsible for 
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe identified in this 
notice.
    This notice was submitted on or after the effective date of the 
revised regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 
12, 2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the 
Federal Register and includes the required information, the National 
Park Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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