[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 217 (Friday, November 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60442-60443]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24400]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0029119; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology, Andover, MA; Correction; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology (formerly the 
Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology) has corrected an inventory of 
associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register on September 22, 2017 and amended in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion Correction published in the Federal 
Register on January 30, 2018. This notice further corrects the 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 
associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the 
Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology. If no additional requestors 
come forward, transfer of control of the 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 associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology at the address in this 
notice by December 9, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 
180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-4490, 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 associated funerary 
objects under the control of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology, Andover, MA. The associated funerary objects were removed 
from Mansion Inn site, Wayland, Middlesex 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 associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice further corrects the number and types of associated 
funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register (82 FR 44460-44461, September 22, 2017) and amended in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion Correction in the Federal Register (83 
FR 4266-4267, January 30, 2018). In June 2019, the Wayland 
Archaeological Research Group (WARG) transferred associated funerary 
objects to the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology to aid in the 
repatriation of objects from the Mansion Inn site (19-MD-210). These 
associated funerary objects were originally collected by Duncan 
Ritchie, Herbert Ross, and Curtis Chapin and some had been curated at 
the now defunct Elbanobscot Foundation Inc., Sudbury, MA. The updated 
counts and types of associated funerary objects reflect the inclusion 
of the WARG transfer. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 44461, September 22, 2017), column 
2, paragraph 1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In June 1959, 274 associated funerary objects were removed from 
the Mansion Inn site (19-MD-210) in Middlesex County, MA.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 44461, September 22, 2017), column 
2, paragraph 1, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Human remains and funerary objects removed by Johnson, Curtis 
Chapin, Duncan

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Ritchie, Herbert Ross, and others were ultimately preserved in the 
Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, the Massachusetts 
Archaeological Society/Robbins Museum, the Elbanobscot Foundation 
Inc., and the Wayland Archaeological Research Group.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 4266, January 30, 2018), column 3, 
full paragraph 3, under the heading ``Correction'', is corrected by 
substituting the following sentence:

    The 274 associated funerary objects are three adze fragments; 
one axe fragment; 121 bifaces and biface fragments; 18 flakes/
debitage; 11 lots, flakes/debitage; one lot, calcined bone 
fragments; two charcoal samples; one charred nut fragment; one 
hammerstone; 22 worked and unworked pebbles and pebble fragments; 22 
biface preform fragments; one shark tooth; one ceramic sherd; one 
lot, red ochre and animal bone fragments; 18 groundstone fragments; 
10 fragments, fire cracked rock; one thumbnail scraper; and 39 
unworked stone fragments.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 4266, January 30, 2018), column 3, 
full paragraph 4, under the heading ``Correction'', is corrected by 
replacing the number ``178'' with ``274''.

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 associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 180 Main 
Street, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-4490, email 
[email protected], by December 9, 2019. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
associated funerary objects to the Wampanoag Repatriation 
Confederation, representing the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (previously 
listed as the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) and the 
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and, if joined to one or more 
of the above Tribes, the Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation and 
Nipmuc Nation, which are non-federally recognized Indian groups, may 
proceed.
    The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology is responsible for 
notifying the Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation, representing the 
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as the Mashpee Wampanoag 
Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head 
(Aquinnah), and, if joined to one or more of the above Tribes, the 
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation and Nipmuc Nation, which are non-
federally recognized Indian groups, that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: October 15, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-24400 Filed 11-7-19; 8:45 am]
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