Notice2025-10012
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Published
June 3, 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 105 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23556-23557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10012]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040235; 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 July 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Deanna Byrd, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#214544404f4f4043585345614740520f494053574053450f444554"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="482c2d292626292a313a2c082e293b6620293a3e293a2c662d2c3d">[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
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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, four individuals have been
identified from mounds on the Wassica River, near Camp Pleasant,
Jefferson County, FL, possibly associated with Florida State Site
#8JE63. No associated funerary objects are present. The human remains
were collected by F.W. Walker in 1932 and donated by Walker to the PMAE
in 1935.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified from a cemetery near Point Washington, Walton County, FL
(Florida State Site #8WL16). The three associated funerary objects are
three lots of ceramic vessels and vessel fragments. Clarence Bloomfield
Moore collected the human remains and associated funerary objects in
1901 and donated them to the PMAE the same year.
A total of one associated funerary object was defined during
consultation as made exclusively for burial purposes according to
Native American traditional knowledge. The one associated funerary
object is one lot consisting of a ceramic vessel and fragments removed
from a sand dune on Santa Rosa Island by Dr. Alfred M. Woodcock prior
to 1935 and donated to the PMAE in 1935.
A total of 43 associated funerary objects were defined during
consultation, in which either the location of the human remains is
known but they are not present at the PMAE and/or the objects were made
exclusively for burial purposes, according to Native American
traditional knowledge. These 43 associated funerary objects are all
ceramic vessels or vessel fragments known or presumed to be collected
by Clarence Bloomfield Moore between 1901 and 1902 and donated to the
PMAE between 1901 and 1907. There are 42 lots of associated funerary
objects currently located, including: two lots from a mound near
Baker's Landing, St. Andrews Bay, Bay County, FL (possibly Florida
State Site #8By29); two lots from a mound near Strange's Landing, St.
Andrews Bay, Bay County, FL (Florida State Site #8By26); one lot from a
mound near West Bay Post Office, St. Andrews Bay, Bay County, FL
(Florida State Site #8By11); and one lot from a small mound near Burnt
Mill Creek, St. Andrews Bay, Bay County, FL (Florida State Site
#8By16); one lot from a mound near Hare Hamock, St. Andrew's Sound, Bay
County, FL (Florida State Site #8By30 or 8By31); one lot from a mound
near Davis Point, Calhoun County, FL; one lot from a mound near
Brickyard Creek, Franklin County, FL (Florida State Site #8Fr8); one
lot from a mound near Eleven Mile Point, St. Vincent's Sound, Franklin
County, FL (Florida State Site #8Fr10); one lot from Cool Spring Mound,
Franklin County, FL (Florida State Site #8Fr19); one lot from Pierce
Mounds, Franklin County, FL (Florida State Site #8Fr14); two lots from
a mound near Aspalaga, Gadsden County, FL (Florida State Site #8Gd1);
one lot from a mound at the Gotier Hammock site, St. Joseph Bay, Gulf
County, FL (Florida State Site #8Gu2); three lots from a mound near the
Chipola Cutoff, Gulf County, FL (Florida State Site #8Gu5); one lot
from near Sampson's Landing on the Apalachicola River, Jackson County,
FL (Florida State #8Ja1); two lots from a mound at Rocky Bayou West,
Okaloosa County, FL (Florida State Site #8Ok3); one lot from the
vicinity of Walton's Camp, Santa Rosa Sound, Santa Rosa County, FL;
seven lots from a mound at Walton's Camp, Santa Rosa Sound, Santa Rosa
County, FL (Florida State Site #8Ok6); one lot from a mound near
Maester Creek, Blackwater Bay, Santa Rosa County, FL (Florida State
Site #8Sr780); two lots from mounds in the vicinity of Santa Rosa
Sound, Santa Rosa County, FL (Florida State Site #8Sr1); four lots from
a mound near point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton County, FL;
two lots from a small mound at Rocky Bayou, Choctawhatchee Bay, Walton
County, FL; one lot from a mound near Rocky Bayou, Choctawhatchee Bay,
Walton County, FL; and three lots from a mound near Jolly Bay, Walton
County, FL (Florida State Site #8Wl15). There is one lot not currently
located, from a mound near Huckleberry Landing, Franklin County, FL
(Possibly Florida State Site #8Fr12).
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 47 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 the Jena Band
of Choctaw Indians; Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Mississippi Band of
Choctaw Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; The Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and The Seminole Nation of
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 July 3, 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 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-10012 Filed 6-2-25; 8:45 am]
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