Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 70981-70982 [E6-20702]
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unpacking of bundles or if they were
also used as, or were intended also to be
used as, woven rush mat bags enclosing
bundles. A woven rush mat bag was one
of several necessary, consecrated, and
inalienable elements constituting a
bundle. Consultation and historic,
anthropological, and museum evidence
suggest that, even if the mats were not
themselves elements of a bundle, they
may be considered ‘‘secondary’’ ritual
objects. In addition to primary ritual
objects, such as bundles, the Osage tribe
used many types of secondary ritual
objects that were sanctified through
consecration and were associated with
primary ritual objects. The mats
reported here were specifically
associated with and used in bundle
ceremonies and, therefore, appear to fit
the category of secondary ritual objects.
Like primary ritual objects, secondary
objects were symbolically kept by a clan
on behalf of the tribe, were communally
owned, and existed for the well being of
the group.
Bundles and mats continue to play an
important, ongoing role in the spiritual
and religious identity of contemporary
Osage people. Population decline and
changing social and material conditions
(including the spread of Christianity) in
the late 19th and 20th centuries
prompted Osage individuals to modify
and reinterpret religious practices.
Consultation with Osage tribal
representatives clarifies that while
traditional Osage spiritual and religious
practices have meshed with Christian
beliefs, elements from older practices,
such as bundles and mats like the ones
reported here, continue to be used and
safeguarded by tribal members. For
example, the bundle discussed here,
which is documented as coming from
the Tsi–zhu Wa–shta–ge clan, plays an
ongoing role in the clan’s identity as
peacemakers, orators, and doctors.
Based on anthropological,
geographical, and historical
information; museum records;
consultation evidence; and expert
opinion, there is a cultural affiliation
between the Osage Tribe, Oklahoma and
the 15 cultural items. The specific
cultural attribution of the cultural items
in museum records indicates an
affiliation to the Osage people.
Futhermore, Oklahoma lies within the
traditional territory of the Osage people.
Consultation evidence and other
research supports that stylistic
characteristics of the cultural items
reported here are consistent with
traditional Osage forms. Present-day
descendants of the Osage people are
members of the Osage Tribe, Oklahoma.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have
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determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(D), the cultural items have
ongoing historical, traditional, and
cultural importance central to the
Native American group or culture itself,
rather than property owned by an
individual. Officials of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
also have determined that, pursuant to
25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a
relationship of shared group identity
that can be reasonably traced between
the 15 objects of cultural patrimony and
the Osage Tribe, Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the objects of cultural
patrimony should contact Patricia
Capone, Repatriation Coordinator,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, 11
Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
02138, telephone (617) 496–3702, before
January 8, 2007. Repatriation of the
objects of cultural patrimony to the
Osage Tribe, Oklahoma may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Osage Tribe, Oklahoma
that this notice has been published.
Dated: November 9, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6–20701 Filed 12–6–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural
Item: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate a cultural item in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, that meets
the definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary
object’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. The
cultural item was removed from
Plymouth County, MA.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
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agency that has control of the cultural
item. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
A detailed assessment of the
unassociated funerary object was made
by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation,
on behalf of the Wampanoag Tribe of
Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts,
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation
(a non-federally recognized Indian
group), and Mashpee Wampanoag
Indian Tribe (a non-federally recognized
Indian group).
In 1967, a metal pin (possibly a
shroud pin) with fragments of textile
and soil was discovered by the
Fernandez Construction Company in the
vicinity of Atkinson Drive in
Bridgewater, Plymouth County, MA,
and was donated later that same year to
the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology by Dr. Pierce H. Leavitt,
Plymouth County Medical Examiner.
Museum documentation indicates that
the metal pin had been recovered with
human remains from a grave. The
human remains that were originally
associated with this cultural item were
described in a Notice of Inventory
Completion in the Federal Register on
August 14, 2003, (FR Doc 03–20754,
pages 48626–48634), and have since
been transferred to the culturally
affiliated tribe. Therefore, this cultural
item is an unassociated funerary object.
This interment most likely dates to
the Historic/Contact period (post 500
B.P.). This straight pin is of European
manufacture and probably dates from
the 17th or 18th century. In a burial
context, the recovery of copper alloy
pins and pin fragments, or the presence
of discrete copper staining, suggests the
use of such pins to secure shrouds.
Coffin nails were also found with the
human remains. The use of coffins,
coffin nails, shrouds, and shroud pins is
consistent with colonial Christian
interment customs and suggests this
interment dates from the Historic
period. Dr. Dena Dincauze, formerly of
the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, commented that the
graves are likely from the 18th century
and that the graves appeared to be
Christian Native American burials.
Oral tradition and historical
documentation indicate that
Bridgewater, MA, is within the
aboriginal and historic homeland of the
Wampanoag Nation. The present-day
Indian tribe and groups that are most
closely affiliated with the Wampanoag
Nation are the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay
Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts,
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Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation
(a non-federally recognized Indian
group), and Mashpee Wampanoag
Indian Tribe (a non-federally recognized
Indian group).
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(B), the one cultural item
described above is reasonably believed
to have been placed with or near
individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony and is believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of a Native American individual.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have also
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary object and the
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts, and that
there is a cultural relationship between
the unassociated funerary object and the
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation
(a non-federally recognized Indian
group) and Mashpee Wampanoag Indian
Tribe (a non-federally recognized Indian
group).
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
object should contact Patricia Capone,
Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–3702, before January 8, 2007.
Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary object to the Wampanoag
Repatriation Confederation, on behalf of
the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts, Assonet
Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a nonfederally recognized Indian group), and
Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe (a
non-federally recognized Indian group)
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Wampanoag Repatriation
Confederation, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay
Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts,
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation
(a non-federally recognized Indian
group), and Mashpee Wampanoag
Indian Tribe (a non-federally recognized
Indian group) that this notice has been
published.
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Dated: November 9, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6–20702 Filed 12–6–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003 (5), of the
intent to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, that meet
the definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary
objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. The
cultural items were removed from
Bristol and Plymouth Counties, MA.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the cultural
items. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
This notice corrects the number of
unassociated funerary objects reported
in a Notice of Intent to Repatriate
published in the Federal Register on
December 1, 2003, (FR Doc 03–29769,
pages 67212–67213). In 2006, the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology identified one additional
unassociated funerary object from a site
in southeastern MA. This notice
changes the number of unassociated
funerary objects from three to four and
supercedes the previously published
Notice of Intent to Repatriate.
A detailed assessment of the cultural
items was made by the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Wampanoag
Repatriation Confederation, on behalf of
the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts, Assonet
Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a nonfederally recognized Indian group), and
Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe (a
non-federally recognized Indian group).
The four cultural items are two brass
tubes, one perforated copper point, and
one string of shell beads.
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The two brass tubes were collected by
J.V.C. Smith in 1831 from Fall River,
Bristol County, MA, and were donated
to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, by F. Kneeland in 1886.
Museum documentation indicates that
the brass tubes were recovered from a
grave. The Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology is not in
possession of the human remains from
this burial.
The interment most likely dates to the
Historic/Contact period (post–A.D.
1500). According to the Peabody
Museum Annual Report of 1887, the
human remains from this grave site
were wrapped in several layers of
braided or woven bark-cloth with an
outer layer of cedar bark. Woven mats
and bark were commonly used in
Wampanoag burials during the Late
Woodland period and later (post–A.D.
1000). Sheet brass and brass objects
were European trade items and therefore
indicate a postcontact temporal context.
At an unknown date, a string of shell
beads was recovered from a grave site in
Bridgewater, Plymouth County, MA.
The string of shell beads was donated to
the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology in 1899 by H.W. Hatch.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is not in possession of
the human remains from this burial.
The interment most likely dates to the
Historic/Contact period (post–A.D.
1500). According to museum
documentation, the shell beads were
found with ‘‘porcelain beads,’’ which
are not in the possession of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
True porcelain beads do not appear in
historic contexts until the 19th century,
although beads made from money cowry
shell (C. moneta) were called
‘‘porcelain,’’ and were imported and
traded by Europeans as trade items by
the 17th century, which would support
a postcontact date. Even if these beads
are of white glass rather than shell, glass
beads were introduced by Europeans as
trade items in the 17th century and
would also support a postcontact date.
In 1845, one perforated copper point
was collected by Mr. Howard in
Fairhaven, Bristol County, MA. The
same year, Mr. Howard gave the point
to Mary L. Rotch. Miss. Rotch donated
the copper point to the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
in 1913. Museum documentation
indicates that the copper point was
recovered from a grave. The Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
is not in possession of the human
remains from this burial.
This interment most likely dates to
the Historic/Contact period (post 500
B.P.). Copper was a European import
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, that
meets the definition of ``unassociated funerary object'' under 25
U.S.C. 3001. The cultural item was removed from Plymouth County, MA.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3).
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the cultural
item. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the unassociated funerary object was made
by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology professional staff
in consultation with representatives of the Wampanoag Repatriation
Confederation, on behalf of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
of Massachusetts, Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a non-federally
recognized Indian group), and Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe (a non-
federally recognized Indian group).
In 1967, a metal pin (possibly a shroud pin) with fragments of
textile and soil was discovered by the Fernandez Construction Company
in the vicinity of Atkinson Drive in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, MA,
and was donated later that same year to the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology by Dr. Pierce H. Leavitt, Plymouth County
Medical Examiner. Museum documentation indicates that the metal pin had
been recovered with human remains from a grave. The human remains that
were originally associated with this cultural item were described in a
Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on August 14,
2003, (FR Doc 03-20754, pages 48626-48634), and have since been
transferred to the culturally affiliated tribe. Therefore, this
cultural item is an unassociated funerary object.
This interment most likely dates to the Historic/Contact period
(post 500 B.P.). This straight pin is of European manufacture and
probably dates from the 17th or 18th century. In a burial context, the
recovery of copper alloy pins and pin fragments, or the presence of
discrete copper staining, suggests the use of such pins to secure
shrouds. Coffin nails were also found with the human remains. The use
of coffins, coffin nails, shrouds, and shroud pins is consistent with
colonial Christian interment customs and suggests this interment dates
from the Historic period. Dr. Dena Dincauze, formerly of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, commented that the graves are
likely from the 18th century and that the graves appeared to be
Christian Native American burials.
Oral tradition and historical documentation indicate that
Bridgewater, MA, is within the aboriginal and historic homeland of the
Wampanoag Nation. The present-day Indian tribe and groups that are most
closely affiliated with the Wampanoag Nation are the Wampanoag Tribe of
Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts,
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Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a non-federally recognized Indian
group), and Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe (a non-federally recognized
Indian group).
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the one cultural
item described above is reasonably believed to have been placed with or
near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of
the death rite or ceremony and is believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native
American individual. Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2),
there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the unassociated funerary object and the Wampanoag Tribe
of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts, and that there is a cultural
relationship between the unassociated funerary object and the Assonet
Band of the Wampanoag Nation (a non-federally recognized Indian group)
and Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe (a non-federally recognized Indian
group).
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary object should
contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, before January 8, 2007.
Repatriation of the unassociated funerary object to the Wampanoag
Repatriation Confederation, on behalf of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay
Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts, Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation
(a non-federally recognized Indian group), and Mashpee Wampanoag Indian
Tribe (a non-federally recognized Indian group) may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation, Wampanoag Tribe of
Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts, Assonet Band of the Wampanoag
Nation (a non-federally recognized Indian group), and Mashpee Wampanoag
Indian Tribe (a non-federally recognized Indian group) that this notice
has been published.
Dated: November 9, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-20702 Filed 12-6-06; 8:45 am]
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