[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51464-51465]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25146]


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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, 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 
cultural items in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 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.
    Two thousand one hundered sixteen cultural items are ceramic 
sherds, complete ceramic vessels, and partial ceramic vessels.
    In 1911-1912, Clarence B. Moore recovered these 2,116 cultural 
items from the mound on Haley Place, Miller County, AR. In 1912, Mr. 
Moore donated these cultural items to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology.
    Museum documentation indicates that these cultural items were 
associated with burials. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology is not in possession or control of any human remains from 
these burials. Based on ceramic style, these cultural items date to the 
Haley Phase of the Caddo II or Early Caddo (C.E. 1200-1400) period. 
Archeological and historical evidence indicates that the Great Bend 
region of Arkansas was occupied continuously from the Early Caddo or 
Caddo II (C.E. 1200-1400) through the Late Caddo or Caddo IV (C.E. 500-
1650) periods, and into the protohistoric period. Historical evidence, 
including the Teran map of C.E. 1691-1692, indicates that the Great 
Bend region was occupied by the Kadohadacho Caddo during the historic 
period, and that this group emerged from precontact Caddoan culture. 
The present-day Indian tribe culturally affiliated with the Kadohadcho 
Confederacy is the Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
    Seventeen cultural items are ceramic sherds and ceramic vessels.
    In 1911-1912, Clarence B. Moore recovered these 17 cultural items 
from the mound on McClure Place, Miller County, AR. In 1912, Mr. Moore 
donated these cultural items to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology.
    Museum documentation indicates that these cultural items were 
associated with burials. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology is not in possession or control of any human remains from 
these burials. Based on ceramic style, these cultural items date to the 
Belcher Phase of the Caddo IV or Late Caddo (C.E. 1500-1650) period. 
Archeological and historical evidence indicates that the Great Bend 
region was occupied continuously from the Early Caddo or Caddo II (C.E. 
1200-1400) through the Late Caddo or Caddo IV (C.E. 1500-1650) periods 
and into the protohistoric period. Historical evidence, including the 
Teran map of C.E. 1691-1692, indicates that the Great Bend region was 
occupied by the Kadohadacho Caddo during the historic period, and that 
this group emerged from precontact Caddoan culture. The present-day 
Indian tribe culturally affiliated with the Kadohadcho Confederacy is 
the Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
    Two hundred ninety-two cultural items are ceramic sherds and 
partial vessels.
    In 1911-1912, Clarence B. Moore recovered these 292 cultural items 
from the mound, L.A. Foster's Place, Miller County, AR. In 1912, Mr. 
Moore donated these cultural items to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology.
    Museum documentation indicates that these cultural items were 
associated with burials. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology is not in possession or control of any human remains from 
these burials. Based on ceramic style, these cultural items date to the 
Belcher Phase of the Caddo IV or Late Caddo (C.E. 1500-1650) period. 
Archeological and historical evidence indicates that the Great Bend 
region in Arkansas was occupied continuously from the Early Caddo or 
Caddo II (C.E. 1200-1400) through the Late Caddo or Caddo IV (C.E. 
1500-1650) periods, and into the protohistoric period. Historical 
evidence, including the Teran map of

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C.E. 1691-1692, indicates that the Great Bend region was occupied by 
the Kadohadacho Caddo during the historic period, and that this group 
emerged from precontact Caddoan culture. The present-day Indian tribe 
culturally affiliated with the Kadohadcho Confederacy is the Caddo 
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
    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 2,425 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 traced between these unassociated 
funerary objects and the Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Caddo Indian Tribe of 
Oklahoma. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with these unassociated funerary 
objects should contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation Coordinator, 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, 
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, before November 8, 2001. 
Repatriation of these unassociated funerary objects to the Caddo Indian 
Tribe of Oklahoma may begin after that date if no additional claimants 
come forward.

    Dated: July 12, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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