Notice2023-24532
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
November 7, 2023
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 (PMAE) 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 were removed from Coahoma County, MS.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76851-76852]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-24532]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036874; 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) 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 were
removed from Coahoma County, MS.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after December 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, Harvard University, 11 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e8988b899887868da88e899bc680899a9e899a8cc68d8c9d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="572734362738393217313624793f36252136253379323322">[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
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records held by the PMAE.
Description
The 109 cultural items were removed from the Oliver Site
(Mississippi State Site number 22Co503) in Coahoma County, MS, in 1901
and 1902 as part of a Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
expedition to Mississippi led by Charles Peabody and William C.
Farabee. The 109 unassociated funerary objects include 105 objects that
are present at the PMAE and four objects that are not currently
located. The 105 present unassociated funerary objects are four brass
beads, two glass beads, two quartz beads, 14 shell beads, one lot
consisting of turquoise beads, two bone tools, one brass Clarksdale
bell, four ceramic sherds, one lot consisting of ceramic sherds, 58
ceramic vessels or vessel fragments, 12 lots consisting of ceramic
vessels or vessel fragments, two faunal bones, one mica fragment, and
one perforated stone. The four objects not currently located are one
lot consisting of shell beads, one lot consisting of ceramic vessels or
vessel fragments, one lot consisting of lithic points, and one lot
consisting of a perforated shell.
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
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trace the relationship: anthropological information, archeological
information, biological information, folklore, geographical
information, historical information, kinship, linguistics, oral
tradition, other relevant information, 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 109 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 Quapaw Nation.
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 December 7, 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, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: October 27, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-24532 Filed 11-6-23; 8:45 am]
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