Notice2024-00833
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
January 18, 2024
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 (PMAE) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human remains were removed from Suffolk County, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 12 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3417-3418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00833]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037265; 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 (PMAE) has completed an inventory of
human remains and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation
between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human remains were
removed from Suffolk County, NY.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after February 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496-3702, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2d5d4e4c5d4243486d4b4c5e03454c5f5b4c5f4903484958"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="acdccfcddcc3c2c9eccacddf82c4cddedacddec882c9c8d9">[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 inventory or related records held by the PMAE.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were
removed from Suffolk County, NY. William Wallace Tooker collected these
individuals, each represented by cranium, at an unknown date and sold
them to the Brooklyn Museum in 1901. The Brooklyn Museum transferred
these individuals to the PMAE as part of a permanent loan in 1938; the
loan was converted to a gift in 1964. No associated funerary objects
are present.
An inventory of the objects and human remains purchased from Tooker
by the Brooklyn Museum indicates that Tooker collected three human
crania from Long Island in three discrete locations: a grave in Sag
Harbor, a grave in East Hampton in a Meeting House lot, and a grave in
Nissequogue. All three localities are within Suffolk County on Long
Island. The inventory indicates that the individual found in Sag Harbor
was collected with a broken ceramic vessel from a ``grave near Otter
Pond Shell Heap.'' The presence of a ceramic vessel dates the burial to
the Woodland Period (post 1000 BC) or later. This vessel is not located
at the PMAE and its location is unknown. The inventory also indicates
that the individual from East Hampton was buried in 1662 and was
excavated along with a glass bottle; the bottle is also not located at
the PMAE and its location is unknown. The presence of a glass bottle
indicates a post-Contact (post A.D. 1600) burial date for the East
Hampton individual. No geographical, temporal, or associated object
information is provided for the individual from Nissequogue. No
funerary objects were transferred to the PMAE with the individual from
Nissequogue.
Insufficient evidence is present to reassociate these three
individuals with Tooker's original provenience information;
consequently, their burial locations cannot be identified beyond
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Suffolk County, NY, and no temporal information for their interments
can be established.
Aboriginal Land
The human remains in this notice were removed from known geographic
locations. These locations are the aboriginal lands of one or more
Indian Tribes. The following information was used to identify the
aboriginal land: authoritative documents.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the PMAE has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice were removed
from the aboriginal land of the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land
Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after February 20, 2024. If competing
requests for disposition are received, the PMAE must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The PMAE 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 and
10.11.
Dated: January 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00833 Filed 1-17-24; 8:45 am]
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