Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 55579-55580 [E9-25968]
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likely dates to the late Rood or Bull
Creek phase, circa A.D. 1200–1475. A
Protohistoric or Historic period
cemetery surrounded the mound. The
Lower Creek village of Kasihta was
located next to the mound and
cemetery. The village was first
identified in historic records in 1732,
but had already been in existence for
some time. It was a major regional
center until the residents were relocated
from the village to Oklahoma in 1836.
Tribal representatives identified the
Lower Chattahoochee River as part of
the ancestral territory of the Hitchitispeaking Lower Creek people. A
continuous occupation of Hitchiti
speakers in the region from the Rood
phase to the Historic period is suggested
by archeological and historic records.
Most Lower Creek voluntarily relocated
or were forcibly removed to Oklahoma
in the first half of the 19th century. The
Upper Creek nations and nations who
were part of the Creek Confederacy,
such as the Alabama and Koasati, were
also relocated to Oklahoma. Before their
final removal to Oklahoma, some
Alabama and Koasati established a
community in Texas. Consultation
evidence indicates that some members
of the Federally-recognized nations
descended from the Creek Confederacy
trace their ancestry specifically to the
village of Kasihta.
Officials of New York University
College of Dentistry have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10),
the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of two
individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of New York
University College of Dentistry 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 Native
American human remains and the
Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas;
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Dr. Louis Terracio, New
York University College of Dentistry,
345 East 24th St., New York, NY 10010,
telephone (212) 998–9917, before
November 27, 2009. Repatriation of the
human remains to the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas; AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma;
Poarch Band of Creek Indians of
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Alabama; and Thlopthlocco Tribal
Town, Oklahoma, may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The New York University College of
Dentistry is responsible for notifying the
Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas;
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma, that this notice
has been published.
Dated: October 7, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
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 an
associated funerary object in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. The
associated funerary object was removed
from southeast Alaska.
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 associated funerary objects.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
A detailed assessment of the
associated funerary object was made by
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology professional staff in
consultation with representatives of
Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian
Tribes, Kootznoowoo Inc., Sealaska
Corporation, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, and
Yakutat Tlingit Tribe.
On an unknown date before July 1868,
one associated funerary object (69–30–
10/2182) was recovered from an
unknown area in southeast Alaska. It
was purchased by the Peabody Museum
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from Edward G. Fast in 1869. The
associated funerary object is a carved
wooden box used to contain cremated
human remains.
Edward Fast’s catalogue describes this
item as a box ‘‘used for receiving the
ashes of the dead.’’ The Peabody
Museum is not in possession of the
human remains. The totality of the
evidence indicates that this item came
from Tlingit territory in the area of
southeast Alaska. Edward Fast wrote
that he collected all of the items listed
in his catalogue from ‘‘that portion of
the [Alaskan] territory south of Mount
St. Elias’’ while he was stationed in
Sitka, AK, between October 1867 and
July 1868. However, additional
historical sources indicate that a portion
of Fast’s collection came from the
Russian American Company’s museum
and was collected by the Russian
scholar I.G. Voznesenskii.
Museum documentation, combined
with other sources, indicates that this
item was likely recovered from a grave
context. This item most likely dates to
the Historic period, specifically to the
19th Century. Anthropological and
historic information indicate that the
area south of Mount St. Elias in the state
of Alaska is within the traditional and
historic territory of the Tlingit people.
Present-day Tlingit people are
represented by Sealaska Corporation, a
Native corporation representing Tlingit,
Haida, and Tsimshian peoples within
the southeastern part of Alaska.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the one object described
above is reasonably believed to have
been exclusively made for burial
purposes or to contain human remains.
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
associated funerary object and the
Tlingit, represented by Sealaska
Corporation.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with this associated funerary
object should contact Patricia Capone,
Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–3702, before November 27, 2009.
Repatriation of the associated funerary
object to Sealaska Corporation may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Central Council Tlingit
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and Haida Indian Tribes, Kootznoowoo
Inc., Sealaska Corporation, Sitka Tribe
of Alaska, and Yakutat Tlingit Tribe that
this notice has been published.
Dated: October 8, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard
University, Boston, 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 in the possession and control of
the Warren Anatomical Museum,
Harvard University, Boston, MA. The
human remains were removed from
Duval County, FL.
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. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology and
Warren Anatomical Museum
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Miccosukee Tribe
of Indians of Florida, Seminole Nation
of Oklahoma, and Seminole Tribe of
Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton,
Hollywood & Tampa Reservations).
In 1889, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from ‘‘Pablo Beach’’ (now
Jacksonville Beach), Duval County, FL,
by Walter B. Currier. The human
remains were donated to the Harvard
Odontological Society by Mr. Currier
later that same year. In 1892, the
Harvard Odontological Society loaned
these human remains to the Harvard
Dental School Museum. By the late
1960s, the Dental Museum had been
dissolved and its remaining holdings
were transferred to Harvard Medical
School’s Francis A. Countway Library of
Medicine, which includes the Warren
Anatomical Museum. In 2009, the
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these human remains to the Warren
Anatomical Museum for the purpose of
NAGPRA implementation. No known
individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Museum documentation identifies the
individual as ‘‘Seminole’’ from an
‘‘Indian Mound’’ in Pablo Beach (now
Jacksonville Beach), FL. Osteological
information suggests that this individual
most likely dates from the Protohistoric
to early Historic Periods. The human
remains were collected from an area
commonly considered to be traditional
Seminole territory during those periods.
Oral traditions and historic evidence
supports the cultural affiliation to
Seminole people. The Seminole are
represented by the Miccosukee Tribe of
Indians of Florida, Seminole Nation of
Oklahoma, and Seminole Tribe of
Florida.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology and Warren
Anatomical Museum have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10),
the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of one
individual of Native American ancestry.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology and Warren
Anatomical Museum 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 Native
American human remains and the
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida,
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and
Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Patricia Capone,
Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–2047, before November 27, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of
Florida, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma,
and Seminole Tribe of Florida may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, Harvard University is
responsible for notifying the
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida,
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and
Seminole Tribe of Florida that this
notice has been published.
Dated: October 7, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Geological Survey
National Earthquake Prediction
Evaluation Council
AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Public Law 96–
472, the National Earthquake Prediction
Evaluation Council (NEPEC) will hold a
2-day meeting on November 4 and 5,
2009. The first day will be a joint
meeting with the California Earthquake
Prediction Evaluation Council (CEPEC).
The meeting will be held at the U.S.
Geological Survey Offices on the
campus of the California Institue of
Technology, 525 South Wilson Avenue,
Pasadena, California 91106. The Council
is comprised of members from academia
and the Federal Government. The
Council shall advise the Director of the
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on
proposed earthquake predictions, on the
completeness and scientific validity of
the available data related to earthquake
predictions, and on related matters as
assigned by the Director. Additional
information about the Council may be
found at: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/
aboutus/nepec/.
At the joint meeting on November 4,
the Councils will review methods for
rapidly estimating the probability of a
large earthquake following a possible
foreshock or during a swarm of
seismicity, review and discuss
procedures by which Council findings
are to be transmitted to the USGS and
to the California Emergency
Management Agency (CalEMA), and the
format and content of earthquake
advisory statements that may be
composed and delivered at times of
heightened concern. Findings of an
International Commission convened by
the Italian government to provide advice
on ‘‘operational earthquake forecasting’’
following the damaging L’Aquila
earthquake of April 2009 will be
presented. The Councils will also
discuss review procedures for the
project intended to deliver an updated
Uniform California Earthquake Rupture
Forecast (UCERF) in summer 2012.
On November 5, the NEPEC will
discuss outcomes of the previous day’s
meeting, plan topics to be explored by
the Council in future meetings, and
receive brief updates on previous
discussion topics.
Workshops and meetings of the
National Earthquake Prediction
Evaluation Council are open to the
public. A draft workshop agenda is
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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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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 an associated funerary object in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. The associated funerary object was removed
from southeast Alaska.
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 associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the associated funerary object was made by
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology professional staff in
consultation with representatives of Central Council Tlingit & Haida
Indian Tribes, Kootznoowoo Inc., Sealaska Corporation, Sitka Tribe of
Alaska, and Yakutat Tlingit Tribe.
On an unknown date before July 1868, one associated funerary object
(69-30-10/2182) was recovered from an unknown area in southeast Alaska.
It was purchased by the Peabody Museum from Edward G. Fast in 1869. The
associated funerary object is a carved wooden box used to contain
cremated human remains.
Edward Fast's catalogue describes this item as a box ``used for
receiving the ashes of the dead.'' The Peabody Museum is not in
possession of the human remains. The totality of the evidence indicates
that this item came from Tlingit territory in the area of southeast
Alaska. Edward Fast wrote that he collected all of the items listed in
his catalogue from ``that portion of the [Alaskan] territory south of
Mount St. Elias'' while he was stationed in Sitka, AK, between October
1867 and July 1868. However, additional historical sources indicate
that a portion of Fast's collection came from the Russian American
Company's museum and was collected by the Russian scholar I.G.
Voznesenskii.
Museum documentation, combined with other sources, indicates that
this item was likely recovered from a grave context. This item most
likely dates to the Historic period, specifically to the 19th Century.
Anthropological and historic information indicate that the area south
of Mount St. Elias in the state of Alaska is within the traditional and
historic territory of the Tlingit people. Present-day Tlingit people
are represented by Sealaska Corporation, a Native corporation
representing Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples within the
southeastern part of Alaska.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the one object
described above is reasonably believed to have been exclusively made
for burial purposes or to contain human remains. 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 associated funerary
object and the Tlingit, represented by Sealaska Corporation.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with this associated funerary object should
contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-
3702, before November 27, 2009. Repatriation of the associated funerary
object to Sealaska Corporation may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Central Council Tlingit
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and Haida Indian Tribes, Kootznoowoo Inc., Sealaska Corporation, Sitka
Tribe of Alaska, and Yakutat Tlingit Tribe that this notice has been
published.
Dated: October 8, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-25968 Filed 10-27-09; 8:45 am]
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