81 FR 2903 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 11 (January 19, 2016)

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on December 1, 2014. 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 the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 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.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 19, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 2903]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00916]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-19632; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Carnegie Museum of Natural 
History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published 
in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on December 
1, 2014. 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 the Carnegie Museum 
of Natural History. 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 the Carnegie Museum of Natural History at the 
address in this notice by February 18, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Deborah G. Harding, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 5800 
Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, telephone (412) 665-2606.

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 in the possession of the Carnegie Museum of 
Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from the Chambers Site, 36LR11, in 
Lawrence County, PA.
    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 number of associated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(79 FR 71120, December 1, 2014). Transfer of control of the items in 
this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 71120, December 1, 2014), paragraph 
7, sentence 5, is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    The 3,336 associated funerary objects include 3,055 glass seed; 
8 tubular beads; 1 mass of seed beads in matrix (uncounted); 2 
silver hair ornaments; 9 copper alloy tinklers; 140 wrought iron 
nails and fragments and attached wood (coffin fragments); 2 hawk 
bells; 2 thimbles; 1 copper alloy brooch or buckle; 1 braided wire 
bracelet; 1 silver band or bracelet; 1 copper alloy bracelet; 1 iron 
knife blade; 15 grit-tempered pottery fragments; 32 fragments of 
non-human bone (deer, sheep or goat, pig, and cow); 20 chipped stone 
tools; 52 chipped stone flakes and fragments; 3 ground stone pieces; 
5 projectile points; 4 hammerstones; 2 hematite fragments; 5 pieces 
of charcoal; 1 piece of bark or fabric; 1 tiny fragment of organic 
material; 1 lump of matrix containing bone or metal fragments; and 1 
natural stone.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 71120, December 1, 2014), paragraph 
11 is corrected by substituting the following:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 3,336 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 Deborah G. Harding, Carnegie Museum of 
Natural History, 5800 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, telephone 
(412) 665-2606, by February 18, 2016. After that date, if no additional 
requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains 
and associated funerary objects to the Delaware Tribe of Indians may 
proceed.
    The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is responsible for notifying 
the Delaware Tribe of Indians that this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 21, 2015.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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