Notice2023-14391
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA
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Published
July 7, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on September 22, 2017, corrected on January 30, 2018, and corrected again on November 8, 2019. This notice amends the number of associated funerary objects in a collection removed from Middlesex County, MA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43387-43388]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14391]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036141; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Robert S. Peabody
Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in
the Federal Register on September 22, 2017, corrected on January 30,
2018, and corrected again on November 8, 2019. This notice amends the
number of associated funerary objects in a collection removed from
Middlesex County, MA.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after August 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology,
180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-4490, 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
Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology. 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 Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology.
Amendment
This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on September 22, 2017 (82
FR 44460-44461) and corrected in notices published on January 30, 2018
(83 FR 4266-4267), and November 9, 2019 (84 FR 60442-60443).
Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Inventory
Completion has not occurred. In mid-2021, the Robert S. Peabody
Institute of Archaeology received a collection of artifacts from the
estate of Dale Farrell that included one bifacial point from Mansion
Inn site in Wayland, Middlesex County, MA. The bifacial point is an
additional associated funerary object from this site.
Table of Changes--Associated Funerary Objects
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Site Original No. Amended No. Amended description
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Mansion Inn, Wayland, Middlesex 274 275 Three adze fragments; one axe fragment;
County, MA. 122 bifaces and biface fragments; 18
flakes/debitage; 11 lots, flakes/
debitage; one lot, calcined bone
fragments; two charcoal samples; one
charred nut fragment; one hammerstone;
22 worked and unworked pebbles and
pebble fragments; 22 biface preform
fragments; one shark tooth; one
ceramic sherd; one lot, red ochre and
animal bone fragments; 18 groundstone
fragments; 10 fragments, fire cracked
rock; one thumbnail scraper, and 39
unworked stone fragments.
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Determinations (as Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology has
determined that:
<bullet> The 275 objects described in this amended notice 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, and
the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary
objects 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 identified in this notice
and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation and the Nipmuc Nation, non-
federally recognized Indian groups.
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 objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after August 7, 2023. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology is responsible
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 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, 10.10,
10.13, and 10.14.
Dated: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14391 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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