Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 82 / Friday, April 26, 1996 / Notices 18623

Service has received from Mr. Joe

Ostranger a Plan of Operations to

remove a limited quantity of stockpiled

ore from the JO claim group in Death

Valley National Park.

The Plan of Operations is available for

public review and comment for a period

of 30 days from the publication of this

notice. Analysis of the proposal will

proceed from the date of its receipt. The

document can be viewed during normal

business hours at the Office of the

Superintendent, Death Valley National

Park, Death Valley, California, 92328.

Dated: April 7, 1996.

Richard H. Martin,

Superintendent.

[FR Doc. 96–10311 Filed 4–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–P

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural

Items in the Possession of the

Connecticut State Museum of Natural

History, University of Connecticut,

Storrs, CT

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

Notice is hereby given under the

Native American Graves Protection and

Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3005 (a)(2),

of the intent to repatriate cultural items

from the Norris L. Bull Collection,

Connecticut State Museum of Natural

History, University of Connecticut,

Storrs, CT which meet the definition of

‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ and

‘‘sacred object’’ as defined in section 2

of the Act.

In 1961, the nineteen cultural items

were donated by the family of Norris L.

Bull to the Connecticut State Museum of

Natural History. These nineteen cultural

items include: one charm stone, one

petroglyph, one faceted glass orange

bead, one trade axe, one metal pestle,

one trade snuff box, one copper kettle,

one pewter medallion, one brass apostle

trade spoon, one pewter trade pipe, one

metal spike, one metal trade pipe, one

pewter baluster, one stone pestle, one

bellamine jug, one bone spearpoint, one

black angular stone pipe, one paint pot

with red stain, and one 2–faced effigy

soapstone pipe.

Eighteen cultural items were found

with human remains in seventeenth

century Mohegan cemeteries, including

Smith Farm, Elizabeth Street, Van

Tassel Site, Yantic, and Yantic &

Quinebaug. These sites are all known

Mohegan cemeteries which have been

disturbed through development and

looting within the last 200 years. These

unassociated funerary objects are

consistent with grave goods of

seventeenth-century Mohegan burials.

One item, the two-faced effigy

soapstone pipe was found in the cellar

of the Uncas Cabin. This site was the

known residence of Uncas, a

seventeenth-century Mohegan sachem

still considered by the Mohegan as the

single greatest culture hero in the postcontact period. Mohegan oral tradition

indicates pipes of this form have been

used long before the contact period, and

are still in use within the Mohegan

community. Mohegan traditional

religious leaders have indicated that this

pipe is needed for the practice of

traditional Mohegan religion by presentday adherents.

Based on the above-mentioned

information, officials of the Connecticut

State Museum of Natural History have

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.

3001(3)(C), the 2–faced effigy soapstone

pipe is a specific ceremonial object

needed by traditional Native American

religious leaders for the practice of

traditional Native American religions by

their present-day adherents. Official of

the Connecticut State Museum of

Natural History have also determined

that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),

these nineteen cultural items 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 and are

believed, by a preponderance of the

evidence, to have been removed from a

specific burial site of an Native

American individual. Lastly, officials of

the Connecticut State Museum of

Natural History have determined that,

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is

a relationship of shared group identity

which can be reasonably traced between

these items and the Mohegan Indian

Tribe of Connecticut.

This notice has been sent to officials

of the Mohegan Indian Tribe of

Connecticut. Representatives of any

other Indian tribe that believes itself to

be culturally affiliation with these

cultural items should contact

Connecticut State Archaeologist

Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Office of State

Archaeology, U–23, University of

Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269,

telephone (860) 486–5248 before May

28, 1996. Repatriation of these cultural

items may begin after that date if no

additional claimants come forward.

Dated: April 22, 1996

Francis P. McManamon

Departmental Consulting Archeologist

Chief, Archeology and Ethnography Program

[FR Doc. 96–10345 Filed 4–25–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–F

Notice of Inventory Completion for

Native American Human Remains and

Associated Funerary Objects in the

Possession of the Rome Historical

Society, Rome, NY

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

Notice is hereby given in accordance

with provisions of the Native American

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003(d), of the

completion of an inventory of human

remains and associated funerary objects

in the possession of the Rome Historical

Society, Rome, NY.

A detailed assessment of the human

remains was made by Rome Historical

Society professional staff and Hartgen

Archeological Associates, Inc.

professional staff in consultation with

representatives of the Onondaga Indian

Nation.

In the early 1960s, human remains

representing 85 individuals were

recovered from the Onondaga County

Penitentiary Site (Pen Site) in

Jamesville, NY under a Fort Stanwix

Museum (now Rome Historical Society)

and Rochester Museum of Science

project. No known individuals were

identified. The 598 associated funerary

objects include pottery, metal and stone

tools, metal pots, beads, shell

(wampum), silver (ornaments, bracelets,

earrings). The Rochester Museum of

Science has additional human remains

and associated funerary objects from the

Pen Site, and is conducting a separate

inventory and consultation for these

human remains and associated funerary

objects.

The Penn Site has been welldocumented as the Onondaga Nation’s

capitol from c. 1682–1696 AD. The

manner of internment and associated

funerary objects are consistent with

Onondaga practice during the late

seventeenth century. Evidence

presented by representatives of the

Onondaga Indian Nation support the

physical evidence.

Based on the above mentioned

information, officials of the Rome

Historical Society have determined that,

pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the

human remains listed above represent

the physical remains of 85 individuals

of Native American ancestry. Officials of

the Rome Historical Society have also

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.

3001 (3)(A), the 598 objects listed above

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.

Lastly, officials of the Rome Historical

Society have determined that, pursuant