[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 112 (Friday, June 11, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33328-33329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-14043]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from Barnstable, Bristol,
Dukes, and Plymouth Counties, MA.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals, the list of
culturally affiliated groups, and the name of a donor reported in a
previous Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal
Register (68 FR 48626-48634, August 14, 2003) and a published
correction Notice of Inventory Completion (71 FR 70979-70980, December
7, 2006). The correction Notice of December 7, 2006, changed the number
of associated funerary objects listed in the original Notice of August
14, 2003. Some of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in the above notices have since been repatriated. However,
the human remains from the site described in this correction are still
in the possession of the Peabody Museum.
Since the publication of the original and correction Notice, one of
the nonfederally recognized Indian groups has become a Federally-
recognized Indian tribe. Therefore, throughout the Notices of August
14, 2003 and December 7, 2006 in the Federal Register, ``Mashpee
Wampanoag Indian Tribe (a nonfederally recognized Indian group)'' is
corrected by substituting ``Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts.''
In addition, throughout each Notice the ``cultural relationship''
between the human remains and associated funerary objects and the
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe stated in the previous notices is replaced by a
``relationship of shared group identity.''
Through a reassessment of human remains from Hingham, Plymouth
County, MA, museum osteologists were able to re-associate elements of
human remains and the current minimum number of individuals has
decreased from the previously reported eight to five. In addition, the
donor's name is more accurately stated below as the Hingham Board of
Health rather than Mayo Tolman as listed in the original notice of
August 14, 2003.
In the Federal Register of August 14, 2003, page number 48631,
paragraph numbers 3 and 4 are corrected by substituting the following
paragraphs:
In 1932, human remains representing five individuals were removed
from a construction site in Hingham, Plymouth County, MA, by an unknown
collector and were donated to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology by the Hingham Board of Health through Secretary Mayo Tolman
in the same year. No known individuals were identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Contextual information suggests that these individuals are likely
Native American. The interment most likely dates to the Historic/
Contact period (post-A.D. 1500). The pattern of copper stains on the
human remains suggests that the human remains were interred some time
after contact. Oral tradition and historical documentation indicates
that Hingham, MA, is within the aboriginal and historic homeland of the
Wampanoag Nation. The present-day tribes that are most closely
affiliated with members of the Wampanoag Nation are the Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
of Massachusetts; and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a
nonfederally recognized Indian group).
In the Federal Register of December 7, 2006, page number 70980,
paragraph number 2 is corrected by substituting the following
paragraphs:
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of 235 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology also have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 113 objects 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.
Lastly, officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts; and the
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and that there
is a cultural relationship between the human remains and associated
funerary objects and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a
nonfederally recognized Indian group).
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation Coordinator,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
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University, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-
3702, before July 12, 2010. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe,
Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts;
and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a nonfederally recognized
Indian group) may proceed after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe
of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and the Assonet Band of the
Wampanoag Nation (a nonfederally recognized Indian group) that this
notice has been published.
Dated: May 4, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2010-14043 Filed 6-10-10; 8:45 am]
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