Notice2022-27182
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
December 15, 2022
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE), Harvard University intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Hale and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 240 (Thursday, December 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76641-76642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27182]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035008; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 (PMAE), Harvard University intends to repatriate certain
cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary
objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian
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organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Hale
and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after January 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138,
telephone (617) 496-3702, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4f3f2c2e3f20212a0f292e3c61272e3d392e3d2b612a2b3a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c7b7a4a6b7a8a9a287a1a6b4e9afa6b5b1a6b5a3e9a2a3b2">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
PMAE. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the amendments
and determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records held by
the PMAE.
Description
The eight cultural items were removed from the Moundville
archeological site in Hale and Tuscaloosa Counties, AL. The eight
unassociated funerary objects are two discoidal stones, one bird-head
effigy, three stone effigy pipes, one incised palette, and one lot of
shell beads. The PMAE does not have a record of human remains from
Moundville being at PMAE.
On an unknown date, Professor N.T. Lupton collected a discoidal
stone from a pot in a mound in Carthage, AL. The PMAE does not have a
record of the associated pot being at PMAE. The Moundville
archeological site was referred to as ``the Carthage group'' through
the second half of the nineteenth century. This funerary object was
donated by Professor N.T. Lupton to the PMAE in October 1877.
On an unknown date in or around 1860, O.T. Prince collected one
bird-head effigy from near Moundville, AL. On an unknown date in or
around 1860, a possibly enslaved worker of O.T. Prince or O.T. Prince
collected three stone effigy pipes, found while digging a ditch near
Mound M of the Moundville site, AL. On an unknown date, the family of
O.T. Prince collected one engraved stone disc (``The Willoughby Disc'')
from the base of a small mound near Moundville, Carthage, AL. On an
unknown date, the family of O.T. Prince collected one discoidal stone
and one lot of shell beads from near Moundville, Carthage, AL. O.T.
Prince was the landowner of a portion of the Moundville-site property
from 1857-1862. Given this, it is likely that these localities refer
specifically to the mounds or fields between mounds on the Prince
estate at the Moundville site. On an unknown date, these seven
unassociated funerary objects were acquired by F.E. Hyde and Charles P.
Bowditch and donated by Mr. Hyde and Mr. Bowditch to the PMAE on an
unknown date in 1896.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are 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: anthropological information,
archeological information, biological information, geographical
information, historical information, kinship, linguistics, oral
tradition, and other relevant information and/or expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the PMAE has determined that:
<bullet> The eight 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the present-day
Muskogean speaking Tribes: Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (previously
listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal
Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band of Choctaw Indians;
Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously listed as Seminole Tribe of
Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood, & Tampa
Reservations)); The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma;
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and the
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after January 17, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the PMAE must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The PMAE 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 7, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-27182 Filed 12-14-22; 8:45 am]
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