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[FR Doc No: 94-4492]


[Federal Register: February 28, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains From 
Hawaii in the Possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d), of 
the completion of the inventory of human remains from Hawaii in the 
possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard.
    The human remains came to the Peabody Museum as part of 16 
collections between 1867 and 1959. There are no associated funerary 
objects. A detailed inventory and assessment of the human remains has 
been made by the staff of the Peabody Museum in consultation with 
representatives of Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, the Office of 
Hawaiian Affairs, and the Kaua'i/Nihau, Maui/Lanai, Molokai, and O'ahu 
Burial Councils.
    The human remains consist of the following:
    One cranium (19-5-70/59745) from Nohile sand dunes, Kaua'i County, 
Kaua'i Island.
    Twenty-one crania (36-96-70/N3482-N3502) and eight mandibles (36-
96-70/N3503) from dune burials in Kaua'i County.
    Twenty-one crania (67-39-70/1115-1135) from southerly shore sand 
dunes, Kaua'i County.
    One cranium (72-20-70/6792) from Kaua'i County.
    Two crania (16-8-70/59647 and 59648) from an ``ancient burial 
place'', Maui County
    Twenty-one crania, two partial crania, and one partial cranium 
together with fragmentary axial elements
    (78-45-70/15267-15290) from Maui County.
    One skeleton (80-25-70/23518), complete except for fragmentary 
extremities, from an ancient burial place, Maui County.
    Five crania (16-8-70/59641-59645) from the beach beyond Diamond 
Sand Dunes Hill, Oahu.
    Six crania (23-5-70/60363-60368) found during the excavation of a 
canal in Waikiki, Oahu.
    Two almost complete skeletons and fragmentary postcranial remains 
from five more individuals (23-5-70/60369-60372) found while excavating 
for a sewer system in Honolulu County, Oahu.
    Three partial crania and six crania (36-4-70/N1324-N1332) from lava 
caves near Honolulu, Oahu.
    Four crania and three fragmentary crania (85-7-70/37592-37397a) 
that, from circumstantial documentary evidence, may come from Oahu.
    One cranium, one partial cranium and one partial cranium with two 
right femurs (86-58-70/61492-61494) from Honolulu, Oahu.
    Twenty seven crania (00/N939; 16-8-70/59646; 20-4-70/59931 and 
59932; 50-70-70/N7476; 59-27-70/N8615-N8620; 80-25-70/23503-23517), 
fragmentary appendicular elements (27-5-70/60797), and twenty four 
mandibles (00/N1013; 80-25-70/23519) are attributed to Hawai'i with no 
further information. Six of these crania (59-27-70/N8615-N8620) came to 
the Peabody Museum from the Warren Anatomical Museum.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Museum 
have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2) that there is a 
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced 
between these remains and present-day Native Hawaiian organizations.
    This notice has been sent to officials of Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O 
Hawai'i Nei and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Representatives of any 
other Native Hawaiian organization which believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with these human remains should contact Mrs. 
Barbara Isaac, Assistant Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, 
or call (617) 495-2248, before March 30, 1994.
Dated: February 18, 1994.
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Departmental Consulting Archeologist,Chief, Archeological 
Assistance Division.
[FR Doc. 94-4492 Filed 2-25-94; 8:45 am]
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