81 FR 806 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 4 (January 7, 2016)

The U. S. Department of Defense, Department of Navy has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on March 31, 2014. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and the number of associated funerary objects repatriated to the Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 4 (Thursday, January 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 806-807]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00071]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-19933; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, 
Department of the Navy, Washington, DC; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U. S. Department of Defense, Department of Navy has 
corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register on March 31, 2014. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals and the number of associated funerary objects repatriated 
to the Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government.

ADDRESSES: Susan S. Hughes, Department of the Navy, NAVFAC NW., 1101 
Tautog Circle, Suite 102, Silverdale, WA 98315-1101, telephone (360) 
396-0083, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby 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 Department of 
Defense. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed 
from sites near Point Barrow in North Slope Borough, AK.
    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 had 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 number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (79 FR 18058-18059, March 31, 2014). 
The transfer of these items to the Native Village of Barrow Traditional 
Government occurred on June 6, 2014. Because the Tribe intended to bury 
the individuals in their own separate coffins, the human remains were 
re-examined by a forensic anthropologist at the University of Alaska 
Museum of the North where they were temporarily stored prior to

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transfer, to separate the human remains into discrete burials. This 
resulted in a slight decrease in the number of individuals, from the 
originally stated 58 to 56 individuals. Concurrently, a comprehensive 
inventory of the associated funerary objects was made, leading to the 
discovery that three items of cultural patrimony had been included in 
the original inventory of associated funerary objects. As these are not 
considered associated funerary objects, the total number of associated 
funerary objects decreased from 124 to 121.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 18058-18059, March 31, 2014), 
paragraph 7, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    Between 1951 and 1953, human remains representing, at minimum 56 
individuals were removed from the sites of Birnirk, Nunavah, Nuvuk, and 
other locations near Point Barrow in North Slope Borough, AK
    In the Federal Register (79 FR 18058-18059, March 31, 2014), 
paragraph 7, sentence 5 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The 121 associated funerary objects include: 32 wooden objects 
(wound plugs, dish, dart or arrow shafts, drill shaft; scoop, whale 
effigy, sod pick handle, seal scratcher, paddles, and other objects); 
24 ivory objects (needle case, kayak paddle, harpoon heads, lance 
point, pins, awl, handles, and other objects); 25 bone and tooth 
objects (harpoon heads, bow brace, ice pick, bola weights, trap 
components, weapon tips or points, worked bear canines, and other 
objects); 11 antler objects (bird dart heads, harpoon heads, and worked 
antler); 7 stone objects (burin, ground stone knife, whetstone, project 
point, hearthstone, and other stone objects); 4 objects made from skin, 
fur, or baleen (2 sewn sealskins, baleen effigy, bear fur), 2 marine 
shells, and 16 ceramic sherds.
    The U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy is 
responsible for notifying the Native Village of Barrow Inupiat 
Traditional Government that this notice has been published.

    Dated: December 8, 2015.
Amberleigh Malone,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2016-00071 Filed 1-6-16; 8:45 am]
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