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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037456; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Forest Service, Allegheny National 

Forest, Bradford, PA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Allegheny National Forest 

intends to repatriate certain cultural 

items that meet the definition of objects 

of cultural patrimony and that have a 

cultural affiliation with the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Jamie Davidson, United 

States Forest Service, Allegheny 

National Forest, 4 Farm Colony Drive, 

Warren, PA 16365, telephone (814) 728– 

6299, email jamie.davidson@usda.gov. 

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 Allegheny 

National Forest. 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 summary or related records held 

by the Allegheny National Forest. 

Description 

The three cultural items were gifted to 

the Allegheny National Forest at an 

unknown date for display in the 

Bradford Ranger District office by a 

contemporary artist enrolled with the 

Seneca Nation of Indians and named on 

an accompanying plaque. The cultural 

items were displayed for an unknown 

period of time and later removed from 

display and placed in storage. This 

occurred at an unknown time but prior 

to 2018. The three items are carved 

false-face masks. They were carved from 

white pine and each one is 

approximately one foot wide and two 

feet in height. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items 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: other relevant 

information. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Allegheny National 

Forest has determined that: 

• The three cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Seneca Nation of Indians. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by 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 cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after March 27, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Allegheny National Forest must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the cultural 

items are considered a single request 

and not competing requests. The 

Allegheny National Forest is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations identified in this notice. 

This notice was submitted before 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. 3004, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9. 

Dated: February 16, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03801 Filed 2–23–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037454; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: SUNY, 

Broome Community College, 

Binghamton, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), SUNY 

Broome Community College 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 the region of Fort 

Ancient archeological culture (the 

Upper Ohio River drainage) including 

parts of the current states of Ohio, 

Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Harold Koster, Ph.D., SUNY 

Broome Community College, Professor 

Emeritus, NAGPRA Coordinator, SUNY 

Broome Community College, 907 Front 

Street, Binghamton, NY 13905, 

telephone (607) 692–4232, email 

kosterha@sunybroome.edu. 

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 SUNY Broome 

Community College. 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 SUNY Broome Community College. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum two individuals, were 


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removed from the region of Fort Ancient 

archeological culture (the Upper Ohio 

River drainage), including parts of the 

current states of Ohio, Indiana, West 

Virginia, and Kentucky. 

The collection was donated to the 

Susquehanna River Archaeological 

Center (SRAC), Waverly, New York in 

2012. The collection was subsequently 

donated to SUNY Broome Community 

College by SRAC to be used as a 

teaching collection. Deb Twigg, the cofounder, and executive director of 

SRAC, identified the human remains as 

being a donation collected in the 20th 

century in the Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, 

or West Virginia region. The collection, 

which was referred to as the Les Rolfe/ 

Libold Collection, was reportedly 

donated to SRAC by the family of 

unidentified deceased collectors. No 

provenience or location information was 

provided with the collection, nor was 

any notice included of any human 

remains present in the collection. The 

collection was received in 31 buckets 

with slips of paper marked ‘‘Lee’’ or 

‘‘Davis.’’ 

The collection includes, at minimum, 

the human remains of two Ancestors, a 

juvenile of undetermined sex, aged 7–10 

years, based on dentition, and an adult 

of undetermined sex. No known 

individuals were identified. There are 

13 teeth, one foot, and two hand 

phalanges associated with the juvenile. 

There are five teeth, a maxillary 

fragment, one foot, and three hand 

phalanges associated with the adult. 

Identifications were made by 

professional anthropologists at SUNY 

Broome Community College and by a 

professional osteologist at Binghamton 

University. 

The 3,514 associated funerary objects 

are 949 pottery sherds and assorted 

ceramics; 964 lithic tools, flakes, cores 

and assorted stone; three unidentified 

minerals; 683 freshwater bivalve shells; 

six shell hoes with drilled holes; five 

modified bones/shells; 19 turtle 

carapaces/fragments; one elk cranium; 

775 large and small mammal bones; 76 

fish bones; nine bird bones; three pieces 

of charcoal; 10 lots of carbonized maize 

cobs, seeds, nuts and wood; one nut; 

one piece of unidentified wood; three 

pieces of glass; one metal buckle; two 

broken metal spoons; one large metal 

nail; one metal spike; and one 

unidentified metal fragment. 

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: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

geographical information, biological 

information, historical information, and 

oral tradition. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, SUNY Broome 

Community College has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 3,514 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 Delaware Nation, 

Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi 

Community, Wisconsin; Little Traverse 

Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; 

Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of 

Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; 

Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Prairie Band 

Potawatomi Nation; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian 

Tribe of Michigan; and the Shawnee 

Tribe. 

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 27, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

SUNY Broome Community College 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. SUNY Broome 

Community College is responsible for 

sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations identified in this notice. 

This notice was submitted before 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 16, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03798 Filed 2–23–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037457; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick 

Museum of Anthropology at Northern 

Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (Formerly 

Anthropology Museum at Northern 

Illinois University) 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the James 

B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of 

Anthropology at Northern Illinois 

University (Pick Museum) intends to 

repatriate a cultural item that meets the 

definition of a sacred object and that has 

a cultural affiliation with the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Christy DeLair, Museum 

Director, James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick 

Museum of Anthropology at Northern 

Illinois University, 1425 W Lincoln 

Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60015, telephone (815) 

753–0230, email cdelair@niu.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 


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