[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 12, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 11462] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-6183] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items from Arizona in the Possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA AGENCY: National Park Service ACTION: Notice ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3005(a)(2), of the intent to repatriate a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, which meets the definition of ``cultural patrimony'' under Section 2 of the Act. The cultural items are 20 yellow wooden sunflowers, five white wooden sunflowers, two leather sunflowers, 26 wooden cones, and one wooden bird. In 1915, Mr. Kidder and Mr. Guernsey excavated these cultural items from Sunflower Cave, Marsh Pass, AZ during an expedition sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. These items were accessioned into the Museum's collections the same year. Excavation records and anthropological sources indicate these items were likely deposited in Sunflower Cave during the Pueblo I period (750-975 AD). Consultation evidence presented by representatives of the Hopi Tribe on behalf of the Flute Clan practices and have ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural importance central to the Flute Clan and could not have been alienated by any individual. Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), these 54 cultural items have ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural importance central to the culture itself, and could not have been alienated, appropriated, or conveyed by any individual. Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced between these items and the Flute Clan of Walpi, First Mesa, of the Hopi Tribe. This notice has been sent to officials of the Hopi Tribe. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these objects should contact Mrs. Barbara Isaac, Assistant Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 495-2254 before April 11, 1997. Repatriation of these objects to the Hopi Tribe on behalf of the Flute Clan may begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward. Dated: March 7, 1997. Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program. [FR Doc. 97-6183 Filed 3-11-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-70-F