84 FR 11817 - Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL; Correction

The University of Alabama Museums has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on June 4, 2012. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and 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 the University of Alabama Museums. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated objects to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 60 (Thursday, March 28, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11817-11819]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05994]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027383; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Alabama 
Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The University of Alabama Museums has corrected an inventory 
of human remains and associated funerary objects in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on June 4, 2012. 
This notice

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corrects the minimum number of individuals and 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 the 
University of Alabama Museums. If no additional requestors come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
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 University of Alabama Museums at the 
address in this notice by April 29, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Dr. William Bomar, Executive Director, University of Alabama 
Museums, 121 Smith Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, telephone (205) 348-
7550, 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 University of 
Alabama Museums, Tuscaloosa, AL. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from sites 1Ce73 and 1Ce171 in Cherokee 
County, AL, and site 1Sc40 in St. Clair County, AL.
    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 minimum number of individuals and the 
number of associated funerary objects in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion published in the Federal Register (77 FR 32986-32989, June 
4, 2012). The correction is being made because continuing re-inventory 
and repacking of existing collections following the initial notice have 
resulted in the discovery of additional human remains and associated 
funerary objects. Transfer of control of the cultural items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32987, June 4, 2012), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 7 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 108 associated funerary objects documented include one lot 
of brass arm bands, one lot of brass beads, 19 brass bells, one lot 
of more than 40 brass bracelets, one lot of brass collars, one lot 
of about 27 brass cones, three brass discs, one brass spoon, one 
brass sword hilt and handle, one brass wrist band, four brass animal 
cutouts, six fragments of sheet brass, one chert abrader, eight 
chert bifaces, one chert flake, two chert hammerstones, 15 chert 
projectile points, one chert scraper, one fragment of fabric with 
brass beads, one lot of about 27,000 glass beads, one glass biface, 
one unidentified gorget, one ground hematite, seven gun flints, one 
iron ax, one iron buckle, two iron harpoons, two iron hoes, six iron 
knives, three iron nails, one iron pin, two iron scissors, two iron 
fragments, one lead bead, one lot of ochre, one lot of pottery 
vessels, one quartzite anvil stone, one lot of silver buttons, two 
steatite pipes, and one trade pipe.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32987, June 4, 2012), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 11 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Of the total collection, 99 associated funerary objects have 
been located and are available for repatriation.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In 1958, human remains representing, at minimum, 13 individuals 
were removed from the Bradford Ferry site (1Ce73), in Cherokee 
County, AL.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The remains were removed from nine known burials and four other 
locations (HRID 4453-4462, 4495-4496, and 4462).

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 7 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 15 associated funerary objects documented as having been 
removed from the nine burials, plus two additional objects not 
listed as funerary objects in the original catalog, are one boat 
stone, three brass disks, one brass ear plug, one lot of brass and 
glass beads, one lot of glass beads, two iron objects (possible 
knife and breech plate), two chert projectile points, one lot of 
chert projectile points, one leather fragment, one Guntersville 
point, and one lot of ocher.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 1, 
paragraph 2, sentence 10 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Of the total collection, 16 associated funerary objects have 
been located and are available for repatriation.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In 1959, human remains representing, at minimum, 11 individuals 
(HRID 4463, 4493-4494, 4555-4556, 4559, 4646.1-2, 4647, 4649, and 
4652) were removed from the Seven Springs site, (1Ce101), in 
Cherokee County, AL.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 47 associated funerary objects documented are one stone 
bead, one stone projectile point, one unidentified projectile point, 
six pottery sherds, one bone awl, one turtle shell, three brass 
disks, one lot glass trade beads, four rolled tubular brass beads, 
one fragment red ocher, 22 bone tools, one copper disc bead, one 
shell disc bead, one Plain Shell bowl, and two brass cones.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32988, June 4, 2012), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 9 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Of the total collection, 45 associated funerary objects have 
been located and are available for repatriation.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32989, June 4, 2012), column 1, 
paragraph 3, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 65 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (77 FR 32989, June 4, 2012), column 1, 
paragraph 3, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 206 objects described 
above that are accounted for in the collections 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 Dr. William Bomar, Executive Director, 
University of Alabama Museums, 121 Smith Hall,

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Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, telephone (205) 348-7550, email [email protected], by 
April 29, 2019. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (previously 
listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte 
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida; Poarch 
Band of Creeks (previously listed as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians 
of Alabama); Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously listed as the 
Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & 
Tampa Reservations)); The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation 
of Oklahoma; and the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma, hereafter 
referred to as ``The Tribes'' may proceed.
    The University of Alabama Museums is responsible for notifying The 
Tribes and the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; 
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw 
Nation of Oklahoma; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians 
in Oklahoma that this correction notice has been published.

    Dated: February 25, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-05994 Filed 3-27-19; 8:45 am]
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