[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 58 (Monday, March 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 16492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7381]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent To Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Possession 
of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, that meets the 
definition of ``unassociated funerary object'' under Section 2 of the 
Act.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The 
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of this 
cultural item. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations within this notice.
    The one cultural item is a doll in a wooden coffin.
    In or before 1903, this cultural item was collected in California 
by Grace Nicholson with funding from Lewis H. Farlow. The cultural item 
was donated to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology by Mr. 
Farlow in 1903.
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology records indicate that 
this cultural item was removed from a ``Klamath Indian'' grave along 
the Klamath River, CA. Klamath Indian peoples are represented by the 
present-day Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon. Based on the specific 
cultural attribution in museum records, the probable 19th-century date 
of the burial, geographical location of origin within the historical 
territory of the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon, this cultural item is 
considered to be affiliated with the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University have determined 
that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), this cultural item 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have 
been removed from a specific burial site of an Native American 
individual. Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard University also have determined that, pursuant to 43 
CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between this unassociated funerary object and the 
Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Klamath Indian Tribe 
of Oregon. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with this unassociated funerary 
object should contact Barbara Isaac, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 
02138, telephone (617) 495-2254, before April 25, 2001. Repatriation of 
this unassociated funerary object to the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon 
may begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: March 12, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
[FR Doc. 01-7381 Filed 3-23-01; 8:45 am]
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