Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Correction, 14056-14057 [2011-5867]
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Based on the geographic, linguistic,
archeological, and ethnographic
evidence, as well as oral and
documentary evidence presented during
consultations, Caltrans and California
State University, Sacramento, including
the University’s College of Social
Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
Committee on Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
Compliance (SSIS NAGPRA
Committee), reasonably believe that the
cultural affiliation of CA–SJO–91 is to
the Plains Miwok and Northern Valley
Yokuts.
Officials of California State
University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent a minimum
of 498 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of California State
University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
also have determined, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that the 4,667 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
California State University, Sacramento,
and Caltrans have determined, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that there is a
relationship of shared group identity
that can be reasonably traced between
the Native American human remains
and associated funerary objects and the
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; California Valley
Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Jackson Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California;
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California; Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as
to the non-Federally recognized Indian
groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of
California and Northern Valley Yokuts.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Tina Biorn, Caltrans, P.O. Box
942874 (M.S. 27), Sacramento, CA
94274–0001, telephone (916) 653–0013,
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or Charles Gossett, Dean of the College
of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary
Studies, California State University
Sacramento, CA, 95819–6109, telephone
(916) 278–6504, before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Buena
Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; California Valley Miwok
Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Jackson Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California;
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California; Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California;
and/or Wilton Rancheria, California,
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
California State University,
Sacramento is responsible for notifying
the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; California Valley
Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Jackson Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California;
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California; Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as
the non-Federally recognized Indian
groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of
California, Northern Valley Yokuts, and
Tubatulabals of Kern Valley, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253–665]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA; Correction
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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 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.
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 total number
of unassociated funerary objects from
four to five described in a Notice of
Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items (72
FR 48677–48678, August 24, 2007).
Since publication, an additional
funerary object was found for one of the
two sites in the notice.
In the Federal Register (72 FR 48677–
48678, August 24, 2007), paragraph
three is corrected by substituting the
following paragraph:
The five cultural items are three brass
sheet fragments, one lot of elk teeth
pendants and white discoidal beads,
and one vial of shell and glass bead
fragments.
Paragraph four is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
In 1903, four cultural items were
recovered from the Silverheels site in
Brant, Erie County, NY, during a
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology expedition led by M. R.
Harrington and A. C. Parker. Museum
documentation indicates that the
cultural items were interred with
human remains. The human remains
that were originally associated with
these items were published in the
Federal Register in a Notice of
Inventory Completion (66 FR 51060–
51062, October 5, 2001), and have since
been transferred to the culturally
affiliated groups. Therefore, the cultural
items are now unassociated funerary
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objects. The four unassociated funerary
objects are three brass sheet fragments
and one lot of elk teeth pendants and
white discoidal beads.
Paragraph nine is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(B), that the five 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 Native American individuals.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology also have
determined, pursuant to 24 U.S.C.
3001(2), that there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and the
Cayuga Nation of New York; Oneida
Nation of New York; Oneida Tribe of
Indians of Wisconsin; Onondaga Nation
of New York; Seneca Nation of New
York; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of
Oklahoma; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe,
New York; Tonawanda Band of Seneca
Indians of New York; and Tuscarora
Nation of New York (hereinafter referred
to as ‘‘The Tribes’’).
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects 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 April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary objects to The Tribes may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying The Tribes that this notice has
been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253–665]
Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of Wyoming, Anthropology
Department, Human Remains
Repository, Laramie, WY
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 and control of the
University of Wyoming Anthropology
Department, Human Remains
Repository, Laramie, WY. The human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from the Upper Sunshine
Reservoir area of northwest Wyoming.
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 University of
Wyoming, Anthropology Department,
Human Remains Repository,
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Crow Tribe of
Montana.
In 1973, human remains representing
a minimum of two individuals were
removed from a cliff ledge on private
ground near the Upper Sunshine
Reservoir area of northwest Wyoming by
University of Wyoming personnel. The
burial location had been discovered by
recreational rock climbers. The remains
have been at the University of Wyoming
since that time (HR019 and HR020). No
known individuals were identified. The
985 associated funerary objects are 944
small glass trade beads, 6 large white
glass trade beads, 11 large blue glass
trade beads, 4 medium blue glass trade
beads, 6 dentalim shell beads, 3 brass
buttons, 2 metal loops (earrings?), 1
metal bracelet, 3 shell hair pipe beads,
1carved wooden bowl, 1 lot of
numerous cloth fragments representing
a trade blanket, 1 lot of a trade coat in
fragments with brass braid and brass
buttons, 1 lot of a bison robe in
fragments, and 1 lot of miscellaneous
leather.
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The historic associated funerary
objects suggest a burial date in the early
1800s. The University of Wyoming,
Anthropology Department, Human
Remains Repository, determined that
the human remains are Native American
based on the presence of platymeric
femoral morphology, toothwear
patterns, the presence of shovel shaped
incisors, interorbital observations, and
distinctive cranial morphology. Based
on craniometrics, burial location,
artifacts, and hair styles, officials of the
Human Remains Repository reasonably
believe that these remains represent
individuals related to the Crow Tribe of
Montana. In addition, the Crow Tribe,
based upon the burial location within
the aboriginal homelands of the tribe
and review of the information from the
Human Remains Repository, claims a
shared group identity.
Officials of the University of
Wyoming, Anthropology Department,
Human Remains Repository, have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of two individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
University of Wyoming, Anthropology
Department, Human Remains
Repository, have also determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that
the 985 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
a death rite or ceremony. Lastly,
officials of the University of Wyoming,
Anthropology Department, Human
Remains Repository, have determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that there
is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human
remains and associated funerary objects
and the Crow Tribe of Montana.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Rick L. Weathermon, NAGPRA
Contact at the University of Wyoming,
Department 3431, Anthropology, 1000
E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071,
telephone (307) 766–5136, before April
14, 2011. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Crow Tribe of Montana may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The University of Wyoming
Anthropology Department, Human
Remains Repository, is responsible for
notifying the Crow Tribe of Montana
that this notice has been published.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253-665]
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.
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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 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.
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 total number of unassociated funerary
objects from four to five described in a Notice of Intent to Repatriate
Cultural Items (72 FR 48677-48678, August 24, 2007). Since publication,
an additional funerary object was found for one of the two sites in the
notice.
In the Federal Register (72 FR 48677-48678, August 24, 2007),
paragraph three is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
The five cultural items are three brass sheet fragments, one lot of
elk teeth pendants and white discoidal beads, and one vial of shell and
glass bead fragments.
Paragraph four is corrected by substituting the following
paragraph:
In 1903, four cultural items were recovered from the Silverheels
site in Brant, Erie County, NY, during a Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology expedition led by M. R. Harrington and A. C. Parker.
Museum documentation indicates that the cultural items were interred
with human remains. The human remains that were originally associated
with these items were published in the Federal Register in a Notice of
Inventory Completion (66 FR 51060-51062, October 5, 2001), and have
since been transferred to the culturally affiliated groups. Therefore,
the cultural items are now unassociated funerary
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objects. The four unassociated funerary objects are three brass sheet
fragments and one lot of elk teeth pendants and white discoidal beads.
Paragraph nine is corrected by substituting the following
paragraph:
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), that the five 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
Native American individuals. Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology also have determined, pursuant to 24 U.S.C.
3001(2), that there is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the unassociated funerary objects and the
Cayuga Nation of New York; Oneida Nation of New York; Oneida Tribe of
Indians of Wisconsin; Onondaga Nation of New York; Seneca Nation of New
York; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, New
York; Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York; and Tuscarora
Nation of New York (hereinafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects 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 April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the unassociated funerary objects to The Tribes may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying The Tribes that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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