Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 12895-12896 [E9-6508]
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region well into the 18th century. Based
on material culture and provenience,
the unassociated funerary objects are
reasonably believed to be culturally
affiliated with the Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma. Representatives of the Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma have viewed the
unassociated funerary objects and
support a cultural affiliation of the
Caddo Nation with these objects.
Officials of the Texarkana Museums
System have determined that, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 209 cultural
items described above are 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 are believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of a Native American individual.
Officials of the Texarkana Museums
System 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 unassociated funerary objects and
the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact J.A. Simmons,
Texarkana Museums System, PO Box
2343, Texarkana, TX 75504, telephone
(903) 793–4831, before April 24, 2009.
Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary objects to the Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
The Texarkana Museums System is
responsible for notifying the Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has
been published.
Dated: March 10, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Department of Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
in the possession and control of the
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Department of Anthropology, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects are believed to have been
removed from a Maine coastal shell
midden either east of the Penobscot Bay
and/or possibly Bailey Island, Casco
Bay, Cumberland County, ME.
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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains and an inventory of the
associated funerary objects were made
by the Department of Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
professional staff in consultation with
Amherst College, Amherst, MA, and
Smith College, Northampton, MA, and
with the Wabanaki Intertribal
Repatriation Committee, a nonFederally recognized Indian group,
representing the Aroostook Band of
Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton
Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and
Penobscot Tribe of Maine.
At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of four
individuals are believed to have been
removed from an unknown shell
midden site in Maine. Sometime in the
1970s, the human remains and
associated funerary objects became part
of the collection of the Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and became
known as the Bailey Collection. No
known individuals were identified. The
128 associated funerary objects are 3
felsite chunks; 22 carved bone pieces; 6
beaver teeth fragments; 9 carnivore and
herbivore teeth fragments; 1 bone point;
9 animal bone fragments; 1 mammal
claw; 9 bone harpoon tips; 2 axes, 4
blanks; 1 possible pestle; 1 axe-like
lithic; 1 cobble; 8 ground and polished
stone tools; 43 bifaces; 4 projectile
points; and 4 pottery sherds.
The collection records do not provide
a clear provenience for these materials,
though they are suggestive that the
collection was excavated by people
during the early 20th century. It is
unknown if the name ‘‘Bailey’’ refers to
a collector’s name, site name, or
geographic placename. Additional
research does not establish an
association with the archeologist John
H. Bailey who worked in Vermont in the
1930s, or with the work of archeologists
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Alfred Bailey or L.W. Bailey. The
collection may be from a site on Bailey
Island in Casco Bay, ME, although there
is no clear association to any known
archeological excavations at this
location. Documents in the collections
records suggest that there might be a
connection to the work of Professor
Frederic Loomis of Amherst College,
who conducted fieldwork at shell
midden sites in Maine during the 1910s
to 1930s. In 1914, Loomis donated some
material collected from shell midden
sites at Boothbay, Biggers Island, Winter
Harbor, Sorrento, and Slave Islands to
Professor Harris Hawthorne Wilder of
Smith College, who was also excavating
in Maine at the time. Sometime after
1966, shell midden materials from these
sites were transferred from Smith
College to the Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Although the
records from Amherst College and
Smith College do not specifically
mention the ‘‘Bailey’’ site, it is possible
that the Bailey collection was part of
this transfer.
In 1990, University of Massachusetts
Professor Dena Dincauze, in
consultation with Dr. Bruce Bourque of
the University of Maine, concluded that
the artifacts in the Bailey Collection are
consistent with those recovered from
coastal shell middens east of the
Penobscot Bay, ME. During Bourque’s
assessment of the barbed harpoon forms,
corner-notched Late Period bifaces,
pebble adze and other ground stone
pieces, and raw materials such as Kineo
felsites and ‘‘trap’’ (possibly hornfels),
he noted calcium carbonate deposits on
some of the artifacts, which is typical of
materials recovered from leaching shell
middens. According to Dincauze, the
styles of the artifacts indicate a date to
the ‘‘Ceramic Period’’ of Maine,
especially the last 1,500 years before
European contact, though there are
some artifacts (e.g., a large biface) that
are similar to Middle Woodland (2000–
1600 BP) artifacts. Bourque, Dincauze,
and Dr. Arthur Spiess, of the Maine
Historic Preservation Commission, have
suggested that the style of the bone
comb top in the collection resembles
Beothuk or Inuit styles more
characteristic of Newfoundland than
Maine. However, since most of the
materials are from the Ceramic Period,
the officials of the Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, reasonably
believe they are from the same type of
burials. In 2008, a tribal representative
of the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, after
reviewing the materials, concurred with
Dincauze and Bourque and found the
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artifact assemblage to be consistent with
possible associated funerary objects
from Ceramic Period burials in Maine.
The Aroostook Band of Micmac
Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of
Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and
Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented
by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, are widely recognized as
having a shared cultural relationship
with the people of the Ceramic Period
of Maine (2,000 B.P. to European
contact).
Officials of the Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst have
determined that pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of four individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Department of Anthropology, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the 128 objects described
above are 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. Lastly, officials of the
Department of Anthropology, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can
reasonably be traced between the Native
American human remains and the
associated funerary objects and the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of
Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe
of Maine, and Penobscot Tribe of Maine,
represented by the Wabanaki Intertribal
Repatriation Committee, a nonFederally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Robert Paynter, Repatriation
Committee Chair, Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, 201 Machmer Hall, 240
Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003,
telephone (413)545–2221, before April
24, 2009. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Aroostook Band of Micmac
Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of
Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and
Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented
by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come
forward.
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The Department of Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst is
responsible for notifying Amherst
College and Smith College, and the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of
Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe
of Maine, Penobscot Tribe of Maine, and
Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, that this notice has been
published.
Dated: March 12, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Atlanta, GA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
in the possession of the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources,
Atlanta, GA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Bartow County, GA.
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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of
North Carolina; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma.
In 1954–61, 1962, 1964–65, and 1972–
73, human remains representing a
minimum of 404 individuals were
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removed from the Etowah Mounds,
Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic
Site (9BR1) in Bartow County, GA. No
known individuals were identified. The
187,060 associated funerary objects are
1 anvil fragment; 10 bone awls/
fragments; 3 stone axes; 129 copper
symbol badges/fragments; 6 woven cane
basket fragments; 4 tortoise shell batons;
2 bone beads; 1 clay bead; 19 copper
covered wooden beads/fragments; 1
copper bead; 1 blue glass bead; 8,273
pearl beads; 159,572 shell beads; 5
wooden beads; 11 stone blades; 2
copper covered wooden bodkins; 38
shell bowls/fragments; 1 wooden bowl;
11 copper celts; 1 iron celt; 22 stone
celts/fragments; 2 indeterminate celts; 6
chunkey stones; 3 copper covered wood
coils; 2 chert core; 23 quartz crystals; 42
daub samples; 36 ceramic discs; 64 mica
discs; 7 shell discs; 6 stone discs; 5
wooden discs; 2 stone drills; 54 copper
covered ear discs; 2 mica ear discs; 1
shell ear disc (nos. 3 & 4); 1 ear disc of
undocumented material; 2 wooden ear
discs; 1 clay ear ornament; 1 copper ear
spool; 2 painted stone figures; 50
charcoal samples; 75 ethnobotanical
remains; 567 cane matting; 3,957 faunal
remains; 6 split cane fragments; 6 fabric/
cloth fragments; 1 fur fragment; 567 hair
fragments; 3 leather fragments; 3
miscellaneous mixed fur/leather/fabric
fibers; 2 strings; 3 fibers; 1 bone fish
hook; 233 stone flakes; 24 copper
fragments; 10 unfired clay samples; 8
clay samples; 19 pigment samples; 4 soil
samples; 291 stones; 7 copper gorgets/
fragments; 39 shell gorgets/fragments;
23 copper hair ornaments; 1 tortoise
shell hair ornament; 5 hammerstone; 2
copper headdresses; 2 mica headdress
pieces; 13 fragments from a headdress;
1 wooden headdress fragment; 11 shell
hoes; 3 stone knives; 1 plaster cast of a
log; 23 copper-covered wooden mask
fragments; 1 shell mask; 2 pieces of cane
matting; 6 plaster casts of cane matting;
1 nutting stone; 1 baked clay cylindershaped object; 61 copper ornaments;
199 decorations/ornaments/fragments; 4
sun symbols; 17 tortoise shell
ornaments/fragments; 7 stone paint
palettes; 22 shell pendants; 13 bone
pins/fragments; 1 copper covered
wooden pin; 2 ear pins of
undocumented material; 12 shell ear
pins/fragments; 1 tortoise shell pin; 3
ear disc pins; 3 wooden pins; 13
ceramic pipes/fragments; 1 pipe
fragment; 6 stone pipes; 12 copper
plates; 4 polished stones; 13 antler
projectile points; 4 bone projectile
points; 37 stone projectile points/
knives; 2 quartz crystals; 10 wooden
rattle fragments; 1 stone ring; 2 logs;
1,348 shells/fragments; 10,791 ceramic
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 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. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the possession and control of the Department of
Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. The human
remains and associated funerary objects are believed to have been
removed from a Maine coastal shell midden either east of the Penobscot
Bay and/or possibly Bailey Island, Casco Bay, Cumberland County, ME.
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 Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains and an inventory of the
associated funerary objects were made by the Department of
Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst professional staff
in consultation with Amherst College, Amherst, MA, and Smith College,
Northampton, MA, and with the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, representing the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and Penobscot Tribe of
Maine.
At an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of four
individuals are believed to have been removed from an unknown shell
midden site in Maine. Sometime in the 1970s, the human remains and
associated funerary objects became part of the collection of the
Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and
became known as the Bailey Collection. No known individuals were
identified. The 128 associated funerary objects are 3 felsite chunks;
22 carved bone pieces; 6 beaver teeth fragments; 9 carnivore and
herbivore teeth fragments; 1 bone point; 9 animal bone fragments; 1
mammal claw; 9 bone harpoon tips; 2 axes, 4 blanks; 1 possible pestle;
1 axe-like lithic; 1 cobble; 8 ground and polished stone tools; 43
bifaces; 4 projectile points; and 4 pottery sherds.
The collection records do not provide a clear provenience for these
materials, though they are suggestive that the collection was excavated
by people during the early 20th century. It is unknown if the name
``Bailey'' refers to a collector's name, site name, or geographic
placename. Additional research does not establish an association with
the archeologist John H. Bailey who worked in Vermont in the 1930s, or
with the work of archeologists Alfred Bailey or L.W. Bailey. The
collection may be from a site on Bailey Island in Casco Bay, ME,
although there is no clear association to any known archeological
excavations at this location. Documents in the collections records
suggest that there might be a connection to the work of Professor
Frederic Loomis of Amherst College, who conducted fieldwork at shell
midden sites in Maine during the 1910s to 1930s. In 1914, Loomis
donated some material collected from shell midden sites at Boothbay,
Biggers Island, Winter Harbor, Sorrento, and Slave Islands to Professor
Harris Hawthorne Wilder of Smith College, who was also excavating in
Maine at the time. Sometime after 1966, shell midden materials from
these sites were transferred from Smith College to the Department of
Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Although the
records from Amherst College and Smith College do not specifically
mention the ``Bailey'' site, it is possible that the Bailey collection
was part of this transfer.
In 1990, University of Massachusetts Professor Dena Dincauze, in
consultation with Dr. Bruce Bourque of the University of Maine,
concluded that the artifacts in the Bailey Collection are consistent
with those recovered from coastal shell middens east of the Penobscot
Bay, ME. During Bourque's assessment of the barbed harpoon forms,
corner-notched Late Period bifaces, pebble adze and other ground stone
pieces, and raw materials such as Kineo felsites and ``trap'' (possibly
hornfels), he noted calcium carbonate deposits on some of the
artifacts, which is typical of materials recovered from leaching shell
middens. According to Dincauze, the styles of the artifacts indicate a
date to the ``Ceramic Period'' of Maine, especially the last 1,500
years before European contact, though there are some artifacts (e.g., a
large biface) that are similar to Middle Woodland (2000-1600 BP)
artifacts. Bourque, Dincauze, and Dr. Arthur Spiess, of the Maine
Historic Preservation Commission, have suggested that the style of the
bone comb top in the collection resembles Beothuk or Inuit styles more
characteristic of Newfoundland than Maine. However, since most of the
materials are from the Ceramic Period, the officials of the Department
of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reasonably
believe they are from the same type of burials. In 2008, a tribal
representative of the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, after reviewing the
materials, concurred with Dincauze and Bourque and found the
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artifact assemblage to be consistent with possible associated funerary
objects from Ceramic Period burials in Maine.
The Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of
Maliseet Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and Penobscot
Tribe of Maine, represented by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, are widely
recognized as having a shared cultural relationship with the people of
the Ceramic Period of Maine (2,000 B.P. to European contact).
Officials of the Department of Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst have determined that pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(9-10), the human remains described above represent the physical
remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of
the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 128
objects described above are 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. Lastly, officials of the Department
of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared
group identity that can reasonably be traced between the Native
American human remains and the associated funerary objects and the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and Penobscot Tribe of
Maine, represented by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation Committee,
a non-Federally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Robert Paynter, Repatriation Committee Chair,
Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 201 Machmer
Hall, 240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, telephone (413)545-2221, before
April 24, 2009. Repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine,
Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe of
Maine, and Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented by the Wabanaki
Intertribal Repatriation Committee, a non-Federally recognized Indian
group, may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst is responsible for notifying Amherst College and Smith College,
and the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of
Maliseet Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, Penobscot
Tribe of Maine, and Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation Committee, a non-
Federally recognized Indian group, that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 12, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-6508 Filed 3-24-09; 8:45 am]
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