[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 7, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5742-5744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1969]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Springfield 
Science Museum, Springfield, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Springfield 
Science Museum, Springfield, 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 in this notice are the sole

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responsibilities of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has 
control over the cultural items. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    The 111 cultural items are unassociated funerary objects removed 
from multiple sites in Arkansas, Crittendon, Cross, Jefferson, Lee, 
Lincoln, Mississippi, Phillips, Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties, AR, 
by C.B. Moore. Mr. Moore donated the cultural items to the Springfield 
Science Museum in 1908, 1910, 1911, and 1912.
    At an unknown date, 18 cultural items were removed from Menard 
Mound (Arkansas site number 3AR4), Arkansas County, AR, by C.B. Moore. 
The 18 unassociated funerary objects are 1 pottery disk, 2 bird head 
pottery handles, 2 copper beads, 3 Mississippian Plain bottles, 1 Old 
Town bottle, 2 Carson Red on Buff bowls, 2 Mississippian Plain jars, 4 
Mississippian Plain bowls, and 1 clay figurine with face.
    At an unknown date, two cultural items were removed from Old River 
Landing, (Arkansas site number 3AR14), Arkansas County, AR, by C.B. 
Moore. The two unassociated funerary objects are one small 
Mississippian Plain dish and one Nodena Red and White bottle.
    At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from near 
Sawyer's Landing, Arkansas County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The one 
unassociated funerary object is a Mississippian Plain frog effigy bowl.
    At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from Bradley 
Place (Arkansas site number 3CT7), Crittenden County, AR, by C.B. 
Moore. The one unassociated funerary object is a Bell Plain effigy jar.
    At an unknown date, four cultural items were removed from a mound 
in Crittenden County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The four unassociated funerary 
objects are pottery disks with drilled holes.
    At an unknown date, three cultural items were removed from a 
cemetery at Jones Place (Arkansas site number 3CS25), Cross County, AR, 
by C.B. Moore. The three unassociated funerary objects are one Bell 
Plain jar/bottle, one Mississippian Plain bowl, and one Bell Plain 
pedestal bottle.
    At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from a cemetery 
at Parkin (Arkansas site number 3CS29), Cross County, AR, by C.B. 
Moore. The one unassociated funerary object is a Bell Plain bottle.
    At an unknown date, four cultural items were removed from a 
cemetery at Neely's Ferry (Arkansas site number 3CS24), Cross County, 
AR, by C.B. Moore. The four unassociated funerary objects are one 
Mississippian Plain pedestal bottle, one Mississippian Plain bottle, 
and two Parkin Punctated jars.
    At an unknown date, 16 cultural items were removed from Rose Mound 
(Arkansas site number 3CS27), Cross County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The 16 
unassociated funerary objects are 2 Old Town red bottles, 1 small 
decorated bowl, 3 Bell Plain bottles, 2 Mississippian Plain bottles, 1 
Bell Plain jar, 1 Bell Plain short bottle, 1 Mississippian Plain effigy 
jar, 1 Bell Plain fish effigy bottle, 1 Old Town red bowl, 1 Bell Plain 
tripod bottle, and 2 Mississippian Plain bowls.
    At an unknown date, two cultural items were removed from Turkey 
Island (Arkansas site number 3CS78), Cross County, AR, by C.B. Moore. 
The two unassociated funerary objects are one Bell Plain effigy bowl 
and one wide-mouth pedestal bottle.
    At an unknown date, three cultural items were removed from a mound 
near Turkey Island, Cross County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The three 
unassociated funerary objects are one sample of red ochre and two 
worked shells.
    At an unknown date, 18 cultural items were removed from the Greer 
site (Arkansas site number 3JE50), Jefferson County, AR, by C.B. Moore. 
The 18 unassociated funerary objects are 5 Wallace Incised bowls, 5 
Mississippian Plain bowls, 5 Wallace Incised bottles, 2 Mississippian 
Plain bottles, and 1 Old Town red effigy bottle.
    At an unknown date, two cultural items were removed from a cemetery 
at Forest Place, Lee County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The two unassociated 
funerary objects are one Mississippian Plain teapot and one 
Mississippian Plain bottle.
    At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from Kent Place 
(Arkansas site number 3LE8), Lee County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The one 
unassociated funerary object is an Old Town red bottle.
    At an unknown date, 11 cultural items were removed from a mound 
near Douglas (Arkansas site number 3LI19), Lincoln County, AR, by C.B. 
Moore. The 11 unassociated funerary objects are 1 Mississippian Plain 
bottle, 1 Mississippian Plain crucible, 1 Nodena Red and White bottle, 
and 8 shell beads.
    At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from a mound in 
Mississippi County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The one unassociated funerary 
object is a pottery disk.
    At an unknown date, 13 cultural items were removed from Pecan Point 
(Arkansas site number 3MS78), Mississippi County, AR, by C. B. Moore. 
The 13 unassociated funerary objects are 6 pottery disks with drilled 
holes, 1 Bell Plain effigy bowl, 1 small Bell Plain jar, 1 wide mouth 
Bell Plain bottle, 1 Bell Plain bottle, 1 Carson Red on Buff bottle, 
and 2 Bell Plain pedestal bottles.
    At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from Avenue 
(Arkansas site number 3PH3), Phillips County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The 
one unassociated funerary object is a Nodena Red and White bottle.
    At an unknown date, three cultural items were removed from a 
cemetery at Cummings Place, also known as Cummins Place (Arkansas site 
number 3PO5), Poinsett County, AR, by C.B. Moore. The three 
unassociated funerary objects are two Bell Plain bottles and one 
Mississippian Plain bottle.
    At an unknown date, two cultural items were removed from Miller 
Mound (Arkansas site number 3PO24), Poinsett County, AR, by C.B. Moore. 
The two unassociated funerary objects are one Bell Plain pedestal 
bottle and one Bell Plain jar.
    At an unknown date, four cultural items were removed from Castile 
Place (Arkansas site number 3SF12), St. Francis County, AR, by C.B. 
Moore. The four unassociated funerary objects are one Mississippian 
Plain bowl, two Mississippian Plain bottles, and one Parkin Punctated 
jar.
    The Quapaw Tribe, prior to European contact and during the Historic 
period, resided along both sides of the Mississippi River until an 
epidemic swept through their villages in the latter part of the 17th 
century. The Quapaw consolidated their villages on the western side of 
the Mississippi River near the confluence of the White and Arkansas 
Rivers. The Quapaw maintained a presence in the Central Mississippi 
Valley until the tribe's removal to northwest Louisiana in 1824 when 
all of their land in the Territory of Arkansas was ceded to the United 
States. European documentation concerning the geographical range of the 
Quapaw supports their presence in Arkansas, including the 10 counties 
listed above. Present-day descendants of the Quapaw people are members 
of the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma.
    Officials of the Springfield Science Museum have determined that, 
pursuant to U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 111 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 a specific burial site of a Native American 
individual. Officials of the Springfield

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Science Museum 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 
Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should 
contact David Stier, Director, Springfield Science Museum, 220 State 
Street, Springfield, MA 01103, (413) 263-6800, ext. 321, before March 
9, 2007. Repatriation of the unassociated funerary objects to the 
Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no 
additional claimants come forward.
    The Springfield Science Museum is responsible for notifying the 
Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma that this notice has been published.

    Dated: December 28, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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