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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 25, 2021 / Notices
Additional Requestors and Disposition Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request with information in support of the claim to Laura Bryant, Gilcrease Museum, 1400
N Gilcrease Museum Road, Tulsa, OK
74127, telephone 918 5962747, email laura-bryant@utulsa.edu, by September 24, 2021. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the objects of cultural patrimony to the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma may proceed.
The Gilcrease Museum is responsible for notifying the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has been published.
Dated: August 11, 2021.
Melanie OBrien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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History and Description of the Cultural Items
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
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The State Museum of Pennsylvania, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to The State Museum of Pennsylvania. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request with information in support of the claim to The State Museum of Pennsylvania at
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the address in this notice by September 24, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Kurt W. Carr, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 North Street, Harrisburg, PA 171200024, telephone 717 7839926, email kcarr@pa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C.
3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the control of The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25
U.S.C. 3001.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Services administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003d3. The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

In October of 1935, 21 cultural items were removed from the Northbrook Cemetery 36CH0061 in Chester County, PA. These items were received by The State Museum of Pennsylvania as part of the Charles and Theodore Dutt collection in 1982. The Dutt brothers collected artifacts on the surface of the ground in the Brandywine, Chester Creek, and Ridley Creek drainages. They reported finding the Northbrook Cemetery site because of a ground hog disturbance which yielded pieces of copper, a glass bead, and bone fragments. An account of the recovery is reported in C. A. Weslager, Red Men on the Brandywine, pp. 134136 1953. On October 19, 1935, the Dutts returned to the site with the landowner, Mr.
Peterson, to further investigate the area.
A burial was discovered along with additional beads, broken copper rings and nails. The skeletal remains are not present in the collections of The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and there is no information showing that they were ever removed from the burial. The 21
unassociated funerary objects are 13
white glass beads, three iron nails, one copper wire dangler wrapped around hair no determination if animal or human, and four fragments of copper rings.
Archeological and archival evidence suggest that the materials were associated with historic Delaware Lenape burials. Historic documents indicate that in 1731, James Logan
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provided an area along either side of the Brandywine Creek to be retained by Indians occupying this region. The Delaware entered into numerous agreements with the Commonwealths colonial government and are recognized as the primary tribal group for this region.
In 1978, 135 cultural items were removed from the Montgomery site 36CH0060, Chester County, PA, by Marshall Becker of West Chester University with the permission of the landowner. The Montgomery site is a Historic period site A.D. 17001733.
The collection was the product of a joint research project conducted by West Chester University and The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Wallace Township, Chester County, PA.
Archeological and archival evidence suggest that these 135 objects are associated with the Delaware Tribes.
The 135 unassociated funerary objects are 131 fragments of organic fiber, one iron nail fragment, and three unmodified quartzite lithic fragments.
Oral tradition, ethnohistorical, and archeological evidence place a Brandywine band of the Lenape Delaware at the site ca. A.D. 1730.
Settlements documented in Chester County, include Okehocking, Queonemysing, and four others whose Delaware names are not known.
Colonial documents identify these settlements as being variously occupied from the 1690s to the 1730s, when William Penn was beginning to establish Pennsylvania.
Determinations Made by The State Museum of Pennsylvania Officials of The State Museum of Pennsylvania have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 30013B, the 156 cultural items described 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 30012, there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the unassociated funerary objects and the Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians;
and the Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin hereafter referred to as The Tribes.
Additional Requestors and Disposition Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice
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