Notice2024-28489
Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA
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Published
December 5, 2024
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Phillips Academy (RSPI) 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 234 (Thursday, December 5, 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: 2024-28489]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039153; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology, Andover, 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 Robert S. Peabody Institute of
Archaeology, Phillips Academy (RSPI) 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 January 6, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Ryan J. Wheeler, RSPI, Phillips Academy, 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
RSPI, 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
Human remains representing, at least, 21 individuals have been
identified. The 144 associated funerary objects are two lots of beads,
nine lots of stone bifaces, three lots of copper buttons, five lots of
stone celts, nine lots of chipped stone, one lot of clay, one lot of
copper objects, one lot stone flakes, three lots of game pieces, two
lots of shell gorgets, four lots of ground stone objects, one lot
knives, two lots of mixed ceramic, stone, and faunal remains, five lots
of modified shell, one lot of pebbles, one lot of perforators, one lot
of stone pestles, 25 lots of stone points and projectile points, one
lot of stone scrapers, 12 lots of shell and shell fragments, 41 lots of
ceramic sherds, one lot of stone balls, one lot of unmodified shells,
and 12 lots of ceramic vessels. In 1903, Warren K. Moorehead, curator
of the RSPI (then known as the Department of Archaeology, Phillips
Academy) disturbed burials at a large site on the farm of James R.
Willis about 4 miles south of Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY.
Moorehead removed remains and funerary belongings from at least 100
graves; Moorehead and other RSPI personnel transferred individuals to
other institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University. Ceramics and other features indicate the
site dates to the late Mississippian Tinsley Hill phase, a subphase of
the Angel Phase. RSPI personnel were unable to locate specific
information about the presence of any potentially hazardous substances
used to treat any of the human remains or associated funerary objects.
Additional human remains and associated funerary objects from
Moorehead's 1903 disturbance are reported by the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University in a separate Notice.
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 RSPI has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 21 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 144 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and Absentee-
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Quapaw Nation;
Shawnee Tribe; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Osage Nation; and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary 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 January 6, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the RSPI 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 RSPI 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: November 22, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-28489 Filed 12-4-24; 8:45 am]
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