Notice2022-19618
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
September 12, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The associated funerary object was removed from Barnstable County, MA.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 175 (Monday, September 12, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55846-55847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19618]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034492; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, has completed an inventory of associated
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The associated funerary
object was removed from Barnstable County, MA.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary object in this notice
may occur on or after October 12, 2022.
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ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Curator and NAGPRA Director, Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, email
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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 the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice. Additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records held by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University.
Description
The human remains associated with this funerary object were
included in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal
Register on August 14, 2003 (68 FR 48626-48634, August 14, 2003).
Subsequently, these human remains were transferred to the Wampanoag
Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
In 1891, one associated funerary object was removed from North
Truro in Barnstable County, MA, during a Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology expedition led by Marshall H. Saville. The one associated
funerary object is a small, likely shell-tempered ceramic sherd.
Cultural Affiliation
The associated funerary object in this notice is connected to one
or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures.
There is a relationship of shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or
more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following
types of information were used to reasonably trace the relationship:
archeological, geographical, historical, and oral traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University has determined that:
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the associated funerary object described
in this notice and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as
Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) and the Wampanoag Tribe
of Gay Head (Aquinnah), who are the present-day Indian Tribes that
represent people of Wampanoag descent.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary object
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
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 associated funerary object in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after October 12, 2022. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
associated funerary object are considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 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 10.9, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: August 31, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-19618 Filed 9-9-22; 8:45 am]
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