[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53770-53771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21515]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16230; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Massachusetts 
Amherst, Department of Anthropology, Amherst, MA; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of 
Anthropology has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register on May 15, 2014. This notice corrects the minimum 
number of individuals and number of associated funerary objects. Lineal 
descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the University of 
Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology. If no additional 
requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, 
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 
Department of Anthropology at the address in this notice by October 10, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Julie Woods, Repatriation Coordinator, University of 
Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology, 215 Machmer Hall, 
240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, telephone (413) 545-2702, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the University of 
Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology, Amherst, MA. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Gill, 
Franklin County, MA, and Northampton, Hampshire County, MA.
    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 responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (79 FR 27926-27928, May 14, 2014). 
The associated funerary objects from the Casley-Stempel site in Gill, 
MA, and human remains and associated funerary objects from the Bark 
Wigwams Site, Northampton, MA, were mistakenly omitted from this Notice 
of Inventory Completion. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 27926-27928, May 14, 2014), 
paragraph 4, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following:

The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
the towns of Westfield in Hampden County, MA; Easthampton, 
Northampton, Hatfield, Hadley, North Hadley, and South Hadley in 
Hampshire County, MA; Deerfield, Gill, and Greenfield in Franklin 
County, MA; and Hardwick and Princeton, in Worcester County, MA.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 27926-27928, May 14, 2014), 
paragraph 16, sentences 9-11 are corrected by substituting the 
following:

From the Casley-Stemple site, 4,190 associated funerary objects were 
removed. The associated funerary objects include individual non-
lithic funerary objects and 849 lots of lithic artifacts. The non-
lithic artifacts include 1,870 pottery sherds, 506 unidentified 
faunal bones, 838 pieces of charcoal, 5 unidentified seeds, 1 piece 
of whiteware, 5 pieces of brick, 1 piece of glass, 3 pieces of 
soapstone, 1 piece of iron, 5 sets of red ocher fragments, 14 pieces 
of shell and 92 unidentified artifacts. The 849 lots of lithic 
artifacts include a majority of flakes, fragments, and chipping 
debris of various materials; partial and complete projectile points; 
preforms and chunks of quartz and other materials; perforators; edge 
tools; hammerstones; and cobbles.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 27926-27928, May 14, 2014), after 
paragraph 19, insert the following:

    During a Field School in 1985, an inadvertent discovery of a 
burial led to the excavation of two individuals at the Bark Wigwams 
site, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA, by faculty and students of 
the University of Massachusetts, Department of Anthropology, as 
requested by the Massachusetts State Archaeologist. The individuals 
were transferred to the Massachusetts Historical Commission and were 
believed to be reinterred at an unknown date. Soil samples 
containing bone and teeth fragments representing, at minimum, one 
individual and associated funerary objects have remained at the 
University. No known individuals were identified. From the Bark 
Wigwams site 38 lots of associated funerary objects were removed, 
including 5 lots of historic material (glass, metals, ceramics and 
brick), 1 lot of charred nuts, 8 lots of lithic flakes, 5 lots of 
stone tool fragments, 1 lot of rock, 3 lots of lithic debitage, 2 
lots of projectile points, 3 lots of unidentified faunal bone, 1 lot 
of unidentified charred bone, 1 lot of organic material, 4 lots of 
soil samples and 4 lots of burial soil.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 27926-27928, May 14, 2014), 
paragraph 22 is corrected by substituting the following:

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in this 
notice represent the physical remains of 95 individuals of Native 
American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (79 FR 27926-27928, May 14, 2014), 
paragraph 23 is corrected by substituting the following:

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 4,234 objects described in 
this notice 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.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Julie Woods, Repatriation Coordinator, 
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology, 215 
Machmer Hall, 240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, telephone (413) 545-
2702, email [email protected], by October 10, 2014. After that 
date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the 
Narragansett Indian Tribe; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; and 
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) may proceed.

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    The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Anthropology 
is responsible for notifying the Narragansett Indian Tribe; Stockbridge 
Munsee Community, Wisconsin; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah); 
and non-Federally recognized Indian groups, including Abenaki Nation of 
Missisquoi, St. Francis/Sokoki Band, VT; Abenaki Nation of New 
Hampshire; Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook--Abenaki People, NH; Elnu 
Tribe of the Abenaki, VT; Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the 
Koas Abenaki Nation, VT; Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign 
Abenaki Nation, VT; Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation, VT; and 
Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck and Nipmuc Nation, MA, that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: July 16, 2014.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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