Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, Amherst, MA and Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA, 14067-14068 [2011-5887]
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Reservation, New Mexico, in their
reburial on tribal land.
Officials of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Arizona State Museum have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of 241 individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Arizona
State Museum also have determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that
the 74 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs
and Arizona State Museum 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 Hopi
Tribe of Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact John McClelland, NAGPRA
Coordinator, Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721, telephone (520) 626–2950, before
April 14, 2011. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico, may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
The Arizona State Museum 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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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of Massachusetts,
Department of Anthropology, Amherst,
MA and Nantucket Historical
Association, Nantucket, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
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(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary object
in the possession of the University of
Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, Amherst, MA, and the
Nantucket Historical Association,
Nantucket, MA. The human remains
and associated funerary object were
removed from the Marshall Site,
Nantucket 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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary object. 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
Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation,
representing the Mashpee Wampanoag
Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe
of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of
Massachusetts; and the Assonet Band of
the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts,
a non-Federally recognized Indian
group.
In 1966, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from the Marshall Site,
Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA,
during an archeological field school
conducted by Professor William
Harrison of the University of
Massachusetts. It is believed that the
two grave shafts were originally one
multiple interment that was disturbed
by the repeated digging of shallow fire
pits. No known individuals were
identified. The one associated funerary
object is a pottery vessel. In 1989, the
vessel was transferred to the Nantucket
Historical Association for permanent
curation and is no longer in the control
of the University of Massachusetts,
Department of Anthropology, instead it
is in the control of the Nantucket
Historical Association.
Based on excavation records,
condition of the human remains, the
associated funerary object and burial
methods, the individuals have been
identified as Native American. Material
culture and site features indicate that
the Marshall Site was utilized for shortterm, sporadic occupations from the late
Archaic/early Woodland period into the
19th century. The human remains most
likely date to the late Woodland Period
or later (post-A.D. 1000).
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Ethnohistoric documents, including
European colonial maps, missionary
accounts and Wampanoag oral history,
indicate that the Wampanoag people
and their allies, through marriage and
war pacts (e.g. 1675 King Phillip’s War),
were occupants of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island at the time of contact and
European colonization. Wampanoag oral
history indicates a maintained, longterm occupation of the region to which
can be traced a common ancestry to a
‘‘first Mother,’’ predating the
colonization of the area including the
Marshall Site. The present-day Indian
tribes and group that are most closely
affiliated with members of the
Wampanoag Nation are the Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts;
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and the
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag
Nation, Massachusetts, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group.
Officials of the University of
Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, have determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), that the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of three
individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the University of
Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, and Nantucket Historical
Association also have determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that
the one object 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. Lastly,
officials of the University of
Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, and Nantucket Historical
Association 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 the associated funerary object and
the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe,
Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of
Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts;
and the Assonet Band of the
Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, a
non-Federally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact either Robert Paynter,
Repatriation Committee Chair,
telephone (413) 545–2221, or Rae
Gould, Repatriation Coordinator,
telephone (413) 545–2702, University of
Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, 201 Machmer Hall, 240
Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, and
any representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
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affiliated with the associated funerary
object should contact Ben Simons, Chief
Curator, Nantucket Historical
Association, P.O. Box 1016, Nantucket,
MA 02554, telephone (508) 228–1894,
ext. 303, before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object to the
Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation
on behalf of the Mashpee Wampanoag
Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe
of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of
Massachusetts; and the Assonet Band of
the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts,
a non-Federally recognized Indian
group, may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The University of Massachusetts,
Department of Anthropology, and
Nantucket Historical Association are
responsible for notifying the Mashpee
Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts;
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag
Nation, Massachusetts, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group, that this notice
has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Sequoia National Forest,
Porterville, CA
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 U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Sequoia National Forest,
Porterville, CA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Kern County, CA.
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
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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 Sequoia National
Forest professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut
Tribe), and the Tule River Indian Tribe
of the Tule River Reservation,
California.
In 1948, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from CA–KER–14, in Kern
County, CA, by two archeologists
conducting river basin surveys for the
Smithsonian Institute. The two sets of
human remains and a single tooth from
a third individual and their associated
artifacts were transferred to the Phoebe
Hearst Museum of Anthropology,
University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, for research and storage.
While conducting NAGPRA inventories
for the Sequoia National Forest, it was
discovered that the CA–KER–14
collection was still in storage at the
Phoebe Hearst Museum and it was
subsequently transferred to the Sequoia
National Forest. Examination of the
remains by Phoebe Hearst Museum staff
indicated that one set of human remains
was from an adult male between 35 and
50 years of age. The second set of
human remains was from a female
between 21 and 25 years of age. The
single tooth from a third individual was
of indeterminate age and sex. No known
individuals were identified. The 23
associated funerary objects are 4
obsidian points, 1 olivella shell bead, 1
lot of abalone shell fragments, 1 scraper
manufactured from a historic brown
glass whiskey bottle, 1 bone sewing awl
(non-human bone), 1 scapula bone tool
scraper (non-human bone), 4 obsidian
scrapers, 1 quartzite scraper, 1 green
chert point, 2 pottery sherds, 1 steatite
bead, 1 chopper, 1 thin chalcedony
knife base with hafting adhesive
attached, 1 large obsidian bifacial knife,
1 steatite bowl fragment, and 1 large
grinding metate.
The presence of a flaked scraper made
from a historic brown whiskey bottle
would suggest a proto-historic or
historic age for the remains. Tubatulabal
occupation for this time frame in the
vicinity of CA–KER–14 is well
documented through tribal oral tradition
and formal ethnographic study.
Ethnographic data places the CA–
KER–14 site close to the village hamlets
of the Tubatulabal (Voegelin 1938). The
habitation sites of the Tubatulabal once
spanned the drainage area of the Kern
and South Fork Kern rivers from near
Mount Whitney to just below the
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junction of the two rivers in Kern
County, CA. Three discrete bands, the
Pahkanapil (living along the South Fork
Kern riverbanks), the Palagewan
(situated in the Kern River valley) and
the Bankalachi (living a few miles west
of the Palagewan in Yokut territory)
compose the Tubatulabal (Smith 1978).
Burial customs based on ethnographic
data illustrated that the dead were
buried in shallow graves approximately
1⁄8 mile from the living quarters on
rocky hillsides under shelving rocks
(Voegelin 1938). Geographic proximity
of CA–KER–14 to the various village
hamlets noted in Voegelin’s work, and
the archeological evidence that this
burial site was located in a rock shelter
and close to another extensively used
site, indicates the strong possibility of a
settlement correlation.
Historical documentation, based on
early European travel accounts, tell of
contact between the Tubatulabal and
Francisco Garces when Garces
journeyed to the lower reaches of the
Kern Valley in 1776 (Smith 1978).
Contacts with the Euro-Americans
expanded in the form of trading trips
when the native people would travel to
the coast to trade with the coastal tribes
and came into contact with the
Spaniards at the missions. Between
1850 and 1858, white settlers moved
into the Kern Valley to seek gold and
established mining camps and towns,
and when the gold rush ended, ranching
became the next wave of economic
development. With the intrusion into
the Tubatulabal territory by white
settlers, some of the Pahkanapil moved
from the Hot Springs Valley to the
eastern end of the South Fork Kern
Valley (Smith 1978). In 1863, a group of
about 40 Tubatulabal men were
massacred by American soldiers
following white ranchers’ complaints
that their cows were being stolen by the
local tribe (Smith 1978). By 1875, most
of the Tubatulabal men worked for
white ranchers, and by 1893, the
surviving Palagewan and Pahkanapil
bands were allotted land in the Kern
and South Fork Kern Valleys
(Theodoratus 2009). From 1900 to 1972,
many Tubatulabal moved to adjacent
tribes. Adjacent tribes with cultural
affiliation to these remains include the
Tule River Indian Reservation
(established in 1873), north of the Kern
Valley region; the Paiute-Shoshone
Indians of the Bishop Community of the
Bishop Colony (Bishop Tribe), east of
the Kern Valley Region; and the Santa
Rosa Indian Community of the Santa
Rosa Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut
Tribe), west of the Kern Valley (Smith
1978).
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253-665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Massachusetts,
Department of Anthropology, Amherst, MA and Nantucket Historical
Association, Nantucket, 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
object in the possession of the University of Massachusetts, Department
of Anthropology, Amherst, MA, and the Nantucket Historical Association,
Nantucket, MA. The human remains and associated funerary object were
removed from the Marshall Site, Nantucket 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 Native
American human remains and associated funerary object. 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 Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the Wampanoag Repatriation
Confederation, representing the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts;
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and the
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group.
In 1966, human remains representing a minimum of three individuals
were removed from the Marshall Site, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA,
during an archeological field school conducted by Professor William
Harrison of the University of Massachusetts. It is believed that the
two grave shafts were originally one multiple interment that was
disturbed by the repeated digging of shallow fire pits. No known
individuals were identified. The one associated funerary object is a
pottery vessel. In 1989, the vessel was transferred to the Nantucket
Historical Association for permanent curation and is no longer in the
control of the University of Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology,
instead it is in the control of the Nantucket Historical Association.
Based on excavation records, condition of the human remains, the
associated funerary object and burial methods, the individuals have
been identified as Native American. Material culture and site features
indicate that the Marshall Site was utilized for short-term, sporadic
occupations from the late Archaic/early Woodland period into the 19th
century. The human remains most likely date to the late Woodland Period
or later (post-A.D. 1000).
Ethnohistoric documents, including European colonial maps,
missionary accounts and Wampanoag oral history, indicate that the
Wampanoag people and their allies, through marriage and war pacts (e.g.
1675 King Phillip's War), were occupants of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island at the time of contact and European colonization. Wampanoag oral
history indicates a maintained, long-term occupation of the region to
which can be traced a common ancestry to a ``first Mother,'' predating
the colonization of the area including the Marshall Site. The present-
day Indian tribes and group that are most closely affiliated with
members of the Wampanoag Nation are the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe,
Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts;
and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, a non-
Federally recognized Indian group.
Officials of the University of Massachusetts, Department of
Anthropology, have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), that the
human remains described above represent the physical remains of three
individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the University of
Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, and Nantucket Historical
Association also have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
that the one object 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. Lastly, officials of the
University of Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, and Nantucket
Historical Association 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 the
associated funerary object and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe,
Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts;
and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, a non-
Federally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact either
Robert Paynter, Repatriation Committee Chair, telephone (413) 545-2221,
or Rae Gould, Repatriation Coordinator, telephone (413) 545-2702,
University of Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, 201 Machmer
Hall, 240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, and any representatives of any
other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally
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affiliated with the associated funerary object should contact Ben
Simons, Chief Curator, Nantucket Historical Association, P.O. Box 1016,
Nantucket, MA 02554, telephone (508) 228-1894, ext. 303, before April
14, 2011. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
object to the Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation on behalf of the
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag
Nation, Massachusetts, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The University of Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, and
Nantucket Historical Association are responsible for notifying the
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
(Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation,
Massachusetts, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2011-5887 Filed 3-14-11; 8:45 am]
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