[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 6, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 682-683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-143]


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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; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.8 (f), 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 objects under 25 
U.S.C. 3001.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). 
The determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of 
the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the 
Native American cultural items. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations within this notice.
    This notice corrects the number of unassociated funerary objects 
reported in a notice of intent to repatriate published in the Federal 
Register on October 5, 2001 (FR Doc. 01-24965, pages 51064-65). A 
review of museum records resulted in the identification of two 
additional unassociated funerary objects from the Silverheels site in 
Brant, NY.
    Paragraph 3 of the October 5, 2001, notice is corrected by 
substituting the following paragraph:
    The 626 cultural items are ceramic sherds and vessels; projectile 
points, flaked chert tools and debitage; gun flint; notched stone; 
shell objects; a bone awl and disc; drilled bear and beaver teeth; 
shell, glass, copper, and stone beads; a copper tinkler; a brass ring; 
metal ornaments; an iron axe; pendants; an antler doll; red ochre; 
paint stones; and stone, wooden, and ceramic pipes.

    Paragraph 12 of the October 5, 2001, notice is corrected by 
substituting the following paragraph:
    In 1903, 210 cultural items were recovered from the Silverheels 
site in Brant, NY, during a Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 
expedition led by M.R. Harrington and A.C. Parker. The objects include 
ceramic sherds and vessels; cherts points and flakes; glass, copper, 
and catlinite beads; an animal skin fragment; shell objects; an antler 
doll; raccoon bacula; red ochre; paint stones; a ceramic rim sherd; and 
a ceramic jar.
    Paragraphs 19 and 20 of the October 5, 2001, notice are corrected 
by substituting the following three paragraphs:
    Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 3(B), the 626 cultural 
items described above 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 specific burial sites of Native 
American individuals. Officials at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 
(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be 
reasonably traced between the unassociated funerary objects and the 
Cayuga Nation of New York, Oneida Nation of New York, Oneida Tribe of 
Indians of Wisconsin, Onondaga Nation of New York, St. Regis Band of 
Mohawk Indians of New York, Seneca Nation of New York, Seneca-Cayuga 
Tribe of Oklahoma, Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York, and 
Tuscarora Nation of New York.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should 
contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, before February 5, 2004. 
Repatriation of the unassociated funerary objects to the Cayuga Nation 
of New York, Oneida Nation of New York, Oneida Tribe of Indians of 
Wisconsin, Onondaga Nation of New York, St. Regis Band of Mohawk 
Indians of New York, Seneca Nation of New York, Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of 
Oklahoma, Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York,

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and Tuscarora Nation of New York may proceed after that date if no 
additional claimants come forward.
    The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is responsible for 
notifying the Cayuga Nation of New York, Oneida Nation of New York, 
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Onondaga Nation of New York, St. 
Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York, Seneca Nation of New York, 
Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 
New York, and Tuscarora Nation of New York that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: November 17, 2003.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
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