Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 3417-3418 [2024-00833]
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE)
has completed an inventory of human
remains and has determined that there
is no cultural affiliation between the
human remains and any Indian Tribe.
The human remains were removed from
Suffolk County, NY.
DATES: Disposition of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after February 20, 2024.
SUMMARY:
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Patricia Capone, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
02138, telephone (617) 496–3702, email
pcapone@fas.harvard.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the PMAE. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the inventory or related records held
by the PMAE.
ADDRESSES:
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, three individuals were
removed from Suffolk County, NY.
William Wallace Tooker collected these
individuals, each represented by
cranium, at an unknown date and sold
them to the Brooklyn Museum in 1901.
The Brooklyn Museum transferred these
individuals to the PMAE as part of a
permanent loan in 1938; the loan was
converted to a gift in 1964. No
associated funerary objects are present.
An inventory of the objects and
human remains purchased from Tooker
by the Brooklyn Museum indicates that
Tooker collected three human crania
from Long Island in three discrete
locations: a grave in Sag Harbor, a grave
in East Hampton in a Meeting House lot,
and a grave in Nissequogue. All three
localities are within Suffolk County on
Long Island. The inventory indicates
that the individual found in Sag Harbor
was collected with a broken ceramic
vessel from a ‘‘grave near Otter Pond
Shell Heap.’’ The presence of a ceramic
vessel dates the burial to the Woodland
Period (post 1000 BC) or later. This
vessel is not located at the PMAE and
its location is unknown. The inventory
also indicates that the individual from
East Hampton was buried in 1662 and
was excavated along with a glass bottle;
the bottle is also not located at the
PMAE and its location is unknown. The
presence of a glass bottle indicates a
post-Contact (post A.D. 1600) burial
date for the East Hampton individual.
No geographical, temporal, or associated
object information is provided for the
individual from Nissequogue. No
funerary objects were transferred to the
PMAE with the individual from
Nissequogue.
Insufficient evidence is present to
reassociate these three individuals with
Tooker’s original provenience
information; consequently, their burial
locations cannot be identified beyond
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Suffolk County, NY, and no temporal
information for their interments can be
established.
Dated: January 11, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Aboriginal Land
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The human remains in this notice
were removed from known geographic
locations. These locations are the
aboriginal lands of one or more Indian
Tribes. The following information was
used to identify the aboriginal land:
authoritative documents.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes, the PMAE has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of three individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• No relationship of shared group
identity can be reasonably traced
between the human remains and any
Indian Tribe.
• The human remains described in
this notice were removed from the
aboriginal land of the Shinnecock
Indian Nation.
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Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the
human remains in this notice must be
sent to the Responsible Official
identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for
disposition may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian
Tribes identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian
Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization
not identified in this notice who shows,
by a preponderance of the evidence, that
the requestor is a lineal descendant or
a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization, or who
shows that the requestor is an aboriginal
land Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains
described in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after February 20, 2024.
If competing requests for disposition are
received, the PMAE must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to
disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The PMAE is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes identified in
this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and 10.11.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037263;
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Notice of Inventory Completion: North
Carolina Office of State Archaeology,
Raleigh, NC
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the North
Carolina Office of State Archaeology has
completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a
cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from Burke County, NC.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after
February 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Emily McDowell, Office of
State Archaeology, 215 West Lane
Street, Raleigh, NC 27616, telephone
(919) 715–5599, email emily.mcdowell@
dncr.nc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the North Carolina
Office of State Archaeology. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the inventory or related records held
by the North Carolina Office of State
Archaeology.
SUMMARY:
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, three individuals were
removed from Burke County, NC.
Burials were excavated from the Berry
Site/Joara/Fort San Juan in 1986 by Dr.
David Moore of Warren Wilson College.
The site itself is both an American
Indian Mississippian village and
Historic 16th-century Spanish
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settlement known as Joara and Fort San
Juan, respectively. Joara is known as one
of the largest Mississippian settlements
in North Carolina. It is unclear when
this collection came into the possession
of the Office of State Archaeology in
Raleigh, NC. The three individuals were
removed from two burials and can be
identified as follows: Burial 1, one adult
male aged 23–30; Burial 2, two adult
females aged less than 26 years
(Individual A) and 18–22 years
(Individual B). The 57 associated
funerary objects are two feather rachis,
one iron knife, eight chipped stone
projectile points, one clay pipe, one
quartz cobble, two ground stone, 10
flakes, one bag turtle carapace
fragments, two copper discs, three
charcoal fragments, seven pieces of
organic fibers, two rocks, 10 washings/
soil samples from Burial 1, four copper
fragments, one charcoal fragment, and
two soil samples from Burial 2.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: archeological
information, geographical information,
historical information, and expert
opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the North Carolina Office
of State Archaeology has determined
that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of three individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• The 57 objects described in this
notice 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.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in
this notice and the Catawba Indian
Nation.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037265; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
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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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) has completed an inventory of
human remains and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation
between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human remains were
removed from Suffolk County, NY.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after February 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496-3702, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
PMAE. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the PMAE.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were
removed from Suffolk County, NY. William Wallace Tooker collected these
individuals, each represented by cranium, at an unknown date and sold
them to the Brooklyn Museum in 1901. The Brooklyn Museum transferred
these individuals to the PMAE as part of a permanent loan in 1938; the
loan was converted to a gift in 1964. No associated funerary objects
are present.
An inventory of the objects and human remains purchased from Tooker
by the Brooklyn Museum indicates that Tooker collected three human
crania from Long Island in three discrete locations: a grave in Sag
Harbor, a grave in East Hampton in a Meeting House lot, and a grave in
Nissequogue. All three localities are within Suffolk County on Long
Island. The inventory indicates that the individual found in Sag Harbor
was collected with a broken ceramic vessel from a ``grave near Otter
Pond Shell Heap.'' The presence of a ceramic vessel dates the burial to
the Woodland Period (post 1000 BC) or later. This vessel is not located
at the PMAE and its location is unknown. The inventory also indicates
that the individual from East Hampton was buried in 1662 and was
excavated along with a glass bottle; the bottle is also not located at
the PMAE and its location is unknown. The presence of a glass bottle
indicates a post-Contact (post A.D. 1600) burial date for the East
Hampton individual. No geographical, temporal, or associated object
information is provided for the individual from Nissequogue. No
funerary objects were transferred to the PMAE with the individual from
Nissequogue.
Insufficient evidence is present to reassociate these three
individuals with Tooker's original provenience information;
consequently, their burial locations cannot be identified beyond
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Suffolk County, NY, and no temporal information for their interments
can be established.
Aboriginal Land
The human remains in this notice were removed from known geographic
locations. These locations are the aboriginal lands of one or more
Indian Tribes. The following information was used to identify the
aboriginal land: authoritative documents.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the PMAE has
determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
The human remains described in this notice were removed
from the aboriginal land of the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land
Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after February 20, 2024. If competing
requests for disposition are received, the PMAE must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The PMAE is responsible for sending a copy of
this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and
10.11.
Dated: January 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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