[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 58 (Monday, March 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16494-16495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7437]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items 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 
cultural items in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethology that meet 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 these 
cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations within this notice.
    The six cultural items are five metal brooch fragments and red 
pigment powder.
    Prior to 1900, these cultural items were collected by Rev. J.W. 
Millar from a grave near Harbor Springs, Emmet County, MI. In 1909, 
these cultural items were donated to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology by Lewis H. Farlow.
    Museum records indicate that these cultural items are ``Chippewa'' 
and were ``supposed to be 150 years old in 1899.'' This specific 
cultural attribution indicates that the collector was aware of the 
culture of the burial and suggests that it dated to historic times. The 
style of these brooch fragments are consistent with metal trade items 
of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have determined that, pursuant to 
43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), these six cultural items 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 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 also have determined 
that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared 
group identity that can be reasonably

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traced between these unassociated funerary objects and the Little 
Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians of Michigan. This notice has been 
sent to officials of the Bay Mills Indian Community of the Sault Ste. 
Marie Band of Chippewa Indians, Bay Mills Reservation, Michigan; the 
Grand Traverse Band of Ottaawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan; the 
Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians of Michigan; the Red Lake 
Band of Chippewa Indians of the Red Lake Reservation, Minnesota; and 
the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan. 
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with these unassociated funerary objects 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 these 
unassociated funerary objects to the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa 
Indians of Michigan may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: March 7, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
[FR Doc. 01-7437 Filed 3-23-01; 8:45 am]
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