Notice2025-08776
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
May 16, 2025
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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 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 90, Number 94 (Friday, May 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21073-21074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08776]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040150; 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 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 June 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Deanna Byrd, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone
(617) 384-0672, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d5b1b0b4bbbbb4b7aca7b195b3b4a6fbbdb4a7a3b4a7b1fbb0b1a0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ff9b9a9e91919e9d868d9bbf999e8cd1979e8d899e8d9bd19a9b8a">[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
Human remains representing, at least, three individuals have been
identified as removed from the Rabbit Mount site (GR-1; 38AL15) on
Groton Plantation in Allendale and Hampton Counties, SC, by James B.
Stoltman and Stephen Williams as part of a PMAE expedition in 1964. The
one associated funerary object is one lot of ceramic sherds and
fragments, lithics, worked stone items, faunal remains, charcoal, and
other natural materials.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual, have been
identified as removed from the Clear Mount site (GR-2; 38AL16) on
Groton Plantation in Allendale and Hampton Counties, SC, by James B.
Stoltman and Stephen Williams as part of a PMAE expedition in 1964. The
one associated funerary object is one lot of ceramic sherds, lithics,
worked stone items, worked bone and shell items, ceramic items, and
nails.
Human remains representing, at least one individual have been
identified as removed from an unnamed site on the ``Bank of the Broad
River'' in Richland County, SC, in 1883 by Reverend John Hawkins and
donated to the PMAE the
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same year. The one associated funerary object is one lot of bone beads.
Two associated funerary objects were identified as removed from a
mound on Callawassie Island (38BU19) in Beaufort County, SC, by C.B.
Moore in 1897 and donated to the PMAE the same year. Human remains from
this site are reported by the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology
and Anthropology (SCIAA) in a separate notice. The two associated
funerary objects are two lots of faunal remains.
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 five individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The five 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 from Allendale,
Beaufort, and Hampton Counties, SC, and the Catawba Indian Nation;
Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Shawnee Tribe; and The Muscogee (Creek)
Nation.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice from Richland
County, SC, and the Catawba Indian Nation; Cherokee Nation; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians; The Muscogee (Creek) 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 June 16, 2025. 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: May 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08776 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]
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