[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 68 (Monday, April 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 18505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8682]


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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, Interior.

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 metal butcher knife.
    Prior to 1870, human remains and associated funerary objects were 
collected by Acting Assistant Surgeon G. P. Hachenberg, U.S. Army, from 
a grave near Fort Randall, SD. Surgeon Hachenberg donated the human 
remains and the associated funerary objects to the Army Medical Museum 
(forerunner of the National Museum of Health and Medicine), Washington, 
DC, in 1869. Museum records indicate that the remains were of a Yankton 
Sioux boy.
    The human remains were later transferred to the Smithsonian 
Institution by the Army Medical Museum. The National Museum of Natural 
History repatriated these human remains to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of 
South Dakota in 1995.
    In 1876, this cultural item was transferred to the Peabody Museum 
of Archaeology and Ethnology from the Army Medical Museum.
    Because the human remains associated with this cultural item were 
repatriated to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota in 1995, this 
cultural item is considered to be an unassociated funerary object.
    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), 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 is 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 traced between this unassociated 
funerary object and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Yankton Sioux Tribe 
of South Dakota. 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 May 9, 2001. 
Repatriation of this unassociated funerary object to the Yankton Sioux 
Tribe of South Dakota may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: March 21, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
[FR Doc. 01-8682 Filed 4-6-01; 8:45 am]
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