Notice2024-06270
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
March 26, 2024
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the PMAE has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06270]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037625; 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 PMAE has completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 25, 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#ff8f9c9e8f90919abf999e8cd1979e8d899e8d9bd19a9b8a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="61110200110e0f04210700124f090013170013054f040514">[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, and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. No associated
funerary objects are present. Dr. R.W. Amidon and Oren Pomeroy removed
these human remains from the Perch River Bay site in Jefferson County,
NY, in 1902. Amidon and Pomeroy donated the individual's remains to the
Robert S. Peabody Institute (RSPI) in 1902. In 1937, the RSPI donated
the individual's remains to the PMAE. Museum documentation indicates
that the Perch River Bay site is located along the shore of Lake
Ontario, at the head of Perch River Bay (now known as Black River Bay),
in the township of Brownville, southwest of the village of Limerick, on
what was then the farm of Julius Maynard. Interments from this site
most likely date to the Late Woodland Period (A.D. 1000-1600).
Artifacts from the Perch River Bay site, but not associated with the
burials, support this date. These items include stylistically
diagnostic ceramic rim sherds exhibiting zoned and incised collars with
castellated rims.
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The 32
associated funerary objects include 31 objects that are present in the
Peabody Museum collections and one object that is currently missing.
The 31 present associated funerary objects are one broken canid tooth,
one canid jaw, one fox mandible, one raccoon mandible, one incised
ceramic pipe bowl, two stone fragments, two worked groundstones, one
stone tool, one piece of stone debitage, one bag of soil, 11 ceramic
sherds, one lot of ceramic sherds, five lots of faunal remains, one lot
of ceramic sherds and faunal remains, and one lot of charcoal, faunal
remains, ceramic sherds, and soil. The one associated funerary object
currently missing is one lot of faunal remains. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from the Durfee Farm site in
Jefferson County, NY, by Mark Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden in
1906 as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition. Museum documentation
indicates that the Durfee Farm site is in the township of Ellisburg, 3
miles north-northwest of the village of Pierrepont Manor, between
Taylor Brook and Spring Brook, in the vicinity of a scattered group of
farmhouses that were known locally as the ``Taylor settlement.'' The
site lies on a low, flat-topped hill historically known as the ``Old
Fort lot,'' once belonging to the old Durfee farm. Interments from this
site most likely date to the Late Woodland Period (A.D. 1000-1600).
Artifacts recovered from the site, but not associated with the burials,
support this date. These items include Levanna- and Madison-style
projectile points, ceramic vessels with globular bodies, constricted,
zoned incised necks, and castellated rims, and a variety of terra cotta
pipes, including pipes with trumpet-shaped bowls and bowls with
representations of human faces and animals.
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The 83
associated funerary objects include 81 objects that are present in the
Peabody Museum collections and two objects that are currently missing.
The 81 present associated funerary objects are 25 ceramic sherds, two
lots of ceramic sherds, one rounded ceramic sherd, 10 ceramic pipe
fragments, two bone awls or perforators, three worked animal bones, one
drilled stone, one possibly chipped stone, one quartz flake, one quartz
pebble, seven rounded or ribbed stones, two ground stones, one celt or
adze, one lot of charred wood, one shell, 20 animal bones, and two lots
of faunal remains. The two associated funerary objects currently
missing are one lot of notched bones and one lot of faunal remains. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the
Heath Farm site in Jefferson County, NY, by Mark Raymond Harrington and
Irwin Hayden in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition. Museum
documentation indicates that the Heath Farm site is on the western
border of the township of Rodman, approximately 1.5 miles west of the
village of Rodman, along the northern bank of the North Sandy Creek.
Interments from this site most likely date to the Late Woodland Period
(A.D. 1000-1600). Artifacts recovered from the site, but not associated
with the burials, support this date. These items include Levanna- and
Madison-style projectile points, ceramic vessels with globular bodies,
constricted, zoned incised necks, and castellated rims, and a variety
of terra cotta pipes, including pipes with trumpet-shaped bowls and
bowls with representations of human faces and animals.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
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> The 115 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Oneida
Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; and the Onondaga Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary
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objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative
identified in this notice under 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 human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 25, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the PMAE must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects 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 10.10.
Dated: March 15, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-06270 Filed 3-25-24; 8:45 am]
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