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members of the Pawnee Nation of burials but without any further DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Oklahoma. attributions. Human skeletal remains In 1940, 321 cultural items were and associated funerary objects from National Park Service removed from cemeteries associated this site were repatriated to the Pawnee [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031769; with the Clarks site (25PK1) in Polk Nation of Oklahoma in 1990–1991. The PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] County, NE. These objects were four unassociated funerary objects are recovered during archeological three soil samples and one flintlock Notice of Inventory Completion: excavations by the Nebraska State rifle. Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA Historical Society. The 321 objects are listed as having been recovered from This village was occupied by the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. burials but without any further Kitkahaki Band of the Pawnee from ACTION: Notice. attributions. Human skeletal remains about 1775 to 1809, based on and associated funerary objects from archeological and ethnohistorical SUMMARY: The Valentine Museum has this site were repatriated to the Pawnee information, as well as oral traditional completed an inventory of human Nation of Oklahoma in 1990–1991. The information provided by members of the remains and associated funerary objects, 321 unassociated funerary objects are: Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. in consultation with the appropriate 15 brass/copper bells, one brass/copper Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian ornament, one bridle bit, two bullet Determinations Made by History organizations, and has determined that molds, five chalk fragments, four Nebraska there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary chipped stone flakes, five chipped stone Officials of History Nebraska have tools, two clasp knives, three clay objects and present-day Indian Tribes or determined that: lumps, three cloth and leather Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal fragments, 14 cobbles/pebbles, one • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), descendants or representatives of any metal/fabric coil, one cradle board, 15 the 694 cultural items described above Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian earbob/tinkling cones, 18 English are reasonably believed to have been organization not identified in this notice gunflints, one fossil antler, 32 scrap placed with or near individual human that wish to request transfer of control metal fragments, one fringed leather remains at the time of death or later as of these human remains and associated fragment, three gun parts, one iron axe part of the death rite or ceremony and funerary objects should submit a written head, one iron ball, three iron files, one are believed, by a preponderance of the request to the Valentine Museum. If no iron fixture, one iron hoe, one iron evidence, to have been removed from a additional requestors come forward, projectile point, three iron rings, one specific burial site of a Native American transfer of control of the human remains kettle fragment, one large brass ring, two individual. and associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or lead arrow points, nine leather straps, • three metal bells, five metal buttons, one Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Native Hawaiian organizations stated in metal disk with cloth, one metal is a relationship of shared group this notice may proceed. ornament, seven metal rings, two metal identity that can be reasonably traced DATES: Lineal descendants or tubes, one lead musket ball, three between the unassociated funerary representatives of any Indian Tribe or mussel shells, one nail, 63 ochre/ objects and the Pawnee Nation of Native Hawaiian organization not pigment fragments, two pipestone pipes, Oklahoma. identified in this notice that wish to one pocket knife, one pronghorn toe Additional Requestors and Disposition request transfer of control of these bone, one raptor wing bone, one reed human remains and associated funerary matting fragment, 22 reed fragments, 17 Lineal descendants or representatives objects should submit a written request sandstone abraders, one sandstone pipe, of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian with information in support of the one sheet brass/copper fragment, one organization not identified in this notice request to the Valentine Museum at the shell bead, three tinkling cones, one that wish to claim these cultural items address in this notice by May 27, 2021. vegetal fragment, six vegetal pieces with should submit a written request with ADDRESSES: Alicia Starliper, Collection adhering leather fragments, one white information in support of the claim to Project Manager/Registrar, The clay pipestem, 15 white clay pipestem Rob Bozell, History Nebraska, 5050 N Valentine Museum, 1015 E Clay Street, beads, one wood fragment with Richmond, VA 23219, telephone (804) adhering leather, six wood fragments, 32nd Street, Lincoln, NE 68504, telephone (402) 525–1624, email 649–0711 Ext. 329, email astarliper@ one wooden bow segment, and one thevalentine.org. wooden bowl with cloth. [email protected], by May 27, The Clarks site was occupied by the 2021. After that date, if no additional SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Pawnee (mostly the Grand Band) from claimants have come forward, transfer here given in accordance with the 1823–1849. The Clarks site is clearly of control of the unassociated funerary Native American Graves Protection and associated with the Pawnee Nation of objects to the Pawnee Nation of Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Oklahoma, based on archeological and Oklahoma may proceed. 3003, of the completion of an inventory ethnohistorical information, as well as History Nebraska is responsible for of human remains and associated oral traditional information provided by notifying the Pawnee Nation of funerary objects under the control of the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA. The members of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has been Oklahoma. human remains and associated funerary published. In 1941, four cultural items were objects were removed from Bell Mound removed from cemeteries associated Dated: April 19, 2021. #2, also known as Chief’s Mound, in with the Pike Pawnee site (25WT1) in Melanie O’Brien, Rockbridge County, VA. Webster County, NE. These objects were Manager, National NAGPRA Program. This notice is published as part of the recovered during archeological [FR Doc. 2021–08770 Filed 4–26–21; 8:45 am] National Park Service’s administrative excavations by the Nebraska State responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Historical Society. The four objects are BILLING CODE 4312–52–P U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in listed as having been recovered from this notice are the sole responsibility of

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the museum, institution, or Federal mound on the property of John Marshall placed with or near individual human agency that has control of the Native Bell, Esq. (1815—1890), which was remains at the time of death or later as American human remains and situated on the forks of Cow-Pasture and part of the death rite or ceremony. associated funerary objects. The Calf-Pasture Rivers in Rockbridge • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there National Park Service is not responsible County, VA. The mound was located is a relationship of shared group for the determinations in this notice. approximately 150 yards west of the identity that can be reasonably traced farmhouse. The author of the story is between the Native American human Consultation presumed to be Mann S. Valentine II remains and associated funerary objects A detailed assessment of the human (accompanied by his son Granville G. and the Monacan Indian Nation. remains was made by the Valentine Valentine), who procured laborers at his Additional Requestors and Disposition Museum professional staff. The expense to excavate the mound for a Chickahominy Indian Tribe; personal collection. The contents of the Lineal descendants or representatives Chickahominy Indian Tribe—Eastern mound are described in detail and of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Division; Eastern Band of Cherokee match the information provided on the organization not identified in this notice Indians; Monacan Indian Nation; exhibition label discovered during the that wish to request transfer of control Nansemond Indian Nation [previously inventory. Debra Gould, author of of these human remains and associated listed as Nansemond Indian Tribe]; ‘‘Bioarcheology of Virginia Burial funerary objects should submit a written Pamunkey Indian Tribe; Upper Mounds,’’ has noted that in August request with information in support of Mattaponi Tribe; and as well as four 1877, Mann S. Valentine II and his son the request to Alicia Starliper, non-federally recognized Indian Granville excavated two mounds in Collection Project Manager/Registrar, groups—the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Rockbridge County, VA, which are The Valentine Museum, 1015 E Clay Indian Tribe; Mattaponi Nation; known today as Bell Mound #1 and Bell Street, Richmond, VA 23219, telephone Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia; and Mound #2. According to C. G. Holland, (804) 649–0711 Ext. 329, email the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of author of the article ‘‘Preceramic and [email protected], by May 27, Virginia—were contacted by Valentine Ceramic Cultural Patterns in Northwest 2021. After that date, if no additional Museum, but no in-person consultation Virginia,’’ Chief’s Mound and Bell requestors have come forward, transfer was requested. Hereafter, all the above Mound #2 are one in the same. No of control of the human remains and entities are referred to as ‘‘The Tribes known individual was identified. The associated funerary objects to the and Groups.’’ three associated funerary objects are one Monacan Indian Nation may proceed. History and Description of the Remains partial vessel, one clear quartz crystal, The Valentine Museum is responsible and one worked copper object. for notifying The Tribes and Groups that In 1877, human remains representing, Bell Mound #2 (aka Chief’s Mound) is this notice has been published. at minimum, one individual were in the same county as Hayes Creek removed from Bell Mound #2, also Dated: April 19, 2021. Mound, another Rockbridge County site Melanie O’Brien, known as Chief’s Mound in Rockbridge opened by the Valentine family (in Manager, National NAGPRA Program. County, VA. During regular collection 1901). Following the recommendation inventory activities, the Valentine of the NAGPRA Review Committee and [FR Doc. 2021–08769 Filed 4–26–21; 8:45 am] Museum staff discovered a container the Secretary of the Interior’s BILLING CODE 4312–52–P with the following exhibition label concurrence, in 2000, the Virginia description: ‘‘CHIEF’S MOUND On the Department of Historic Resources DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR farm of John M. Bell, on the Calf Pasture repatriated the remains of 105 River, 150 yards from Bell Mound and individuals from Hayes Creek Mound to National Park Service about 4 miles from Goshen, Virginia. the Monacan Indian Nation, who at the Made from earth unlike the surrounding time were not federally recognized (the [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031782; soil and seemingly brought from a Monacan Indian Nation gained Federal PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] distance. Circumference was 75 feet, recognition in 2018). The Valentine 1 Notice of Inventory Completion: San height 5 ⁄4 feet at the apex. A tree grew Museum believes that the geographical in the exact center. In digging, Bernardino County Museum, proximity of Bell Mound #2 (aka Chief’s Redlands, CA horizontal seams of pulverized charcoal Mound) to Hayes Creek Mound and the were found at different levels. About evidence of a cultural connection to the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 1 1 3 ⁄2 feet from the center and 3 ⁄2 feet earlier group at Hayes Creek Mound ACTION: Notice. below the top were found two previously presented by the Monacan perforated stones, a polished celt, a Indian Nation demonstrate that a SUMMARY: The San Bernardino County polishing stone (?), and a piece of zinc cultural affiliation exists between the Museum (SBCM) has completed an ore. In the center were found the bones Monacan Indian Nation and the earlier inventory of human remains and of a dog, a pot containing hematite upon group at Bell Mound #2 (aka Chief’s associated funerary objects, in a sheet of mica; under this a clear quartz Mound). consultation with the appropriate crystal; a greater mass of charcoal than Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian any before met, a few charred bones, Determinations Made by the Valentine organizations, and has determined that and pieces of wood. Nearby was a piece Museum there is a cultural affiliation between the of worked copper and more mica. It Officials of the Valentine Museum human remains and associated funerary seems apparent the entire mound was have determined that: objects, and present-day Indian Tribes raised in honour of one man whose • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the or Native Hawaiian organizations. body was cremated.’’ According to a human remains described in this notice Lineal descendants or representatives of typed transcription of a first-person represent the physical remains of one any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian account in the museum archives titled individual of Native American ancestry. organization not identified in this notice ‘‘The Hero Mound of The White Cliffs,’’ • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that wish to request transfer of control the human remains and associated the three objects described in this notice of these human remains and associated funerary objects were excavated from a are reasonably believed to have been funerary objects should submit a written

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