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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6005-6006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01176]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039364; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: Temple University, Philadelphia, 
PA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and

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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Temple University 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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Leslie Reeder-Myers, Temple University, LL8 Gladfelter Hall, 
Philadelphia, PA 19122, telephone (215) 204-1376, email [email protected].

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 Temple 
University, and additional information on the determinations in this 
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the 
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, 94 individuals have been reasonably identified from the Mohr 
Site (36LA39), located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The 156 
associated funerary objects are four awls; two axes; one lot of bark; 
34 lots of beads; one blade; eight lots of bones; one lot of brass; one 
burial stone; two celts; nine lots of ceramics; six ceramic sherds; 15 
lots of ceramic vessels; one lot of charcoal; two chisels; one comb; 
two lots of disc ornaments; one lot of flints and chert; two lots of 
iron fragments; one knife; one lot of miscellaneous pit materials; two 
musket balls; five lots of necklaces; one needle; eight lots of 
pendants; seven lots of pipes; one point; one pouch; three projectile 
point; one quartz; five scrapers; two shells; 14 lots of stones; one 
tine; one tube; two lots of turtle shells; one lot of turtle shell and 
bones; one unidentified object; two unknown objects; and two lots of 
turtle shell vessels. Of this number, one ceramic vessel is currently 
missing from this collection and Temple University will continue to 
look for it. Between 1963 and 1965, Dr. Jacob Gruber from the 
Department of Anthropology at Temple University excavated the Site and 
removed human remains and associated funerary objects. In 1968, the 
individuals and funerary objects were accessioned by Temple University. 
Museum records indicate that the individuals were cleaned and, in some 
instances, reconstructed with glue. Temple University has no knowledge 
or record of the presence of any potentially hazardous substances, if 
any, were used for cleaning.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location of the human remains and associated funerary objects described 
in this notice.

Determinations

    Temple University has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 94 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 156 objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the 
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Cayuga Nation; Delaware 
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; 
Pamunkey Indian Tribe; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Seneca Nation of 
Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee Tribe; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; 
and the Tuscarora Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 February 18, 2025. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, Temple University 
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. Temple University is responsible for sending a copy of this 
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations 
identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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