[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 4 (Thursday, January 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 806-807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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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