[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 234 (Friday, December 4, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78354-78355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26759]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031202; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology, Andover, MA; 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 
human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on August 5, 2019. This 
notice corrects the number of individuals and 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 human remains and 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 January 4, 2021.

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 human remains and 
associated

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funerary objects under the control of the Robert S. Peabody Institute 
of Archaeology, Andover, MA. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were removed from four sites in FL.
    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 number of individuals and associated 
funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register (84 FR 38045-38047, August 5, 2019). During 
preparation for repatriation, one additional set of human remains and 
additional associated funerary objects from Macey Mound, FL, were 
identified. These human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed by Fred Alanson Luce and his son Stanley Eldridge Luce around 
1940. Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has 
not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (84 FR 38045, August 5, 2019), column 3, 
paragraph 4, sentence 1, under the heading ``History and Description of 
the Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    In January 1920, human remains representing, at minimum, ten 
individuals were removed by Fred Alanson Luce and his son Stanley 
Eldridge Luce from the Macey Mound (8OR10313) in Orange County, FL.

    In the Federal Register (84 FR 38045, August 5, 2019), column 3, 
paragraph 4, sentence 6 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Examination by physical anthropologists Michael Gibbon and 
Harley Erickson, and Peabody staff members found that the human 
remains represent two adults of indeterminate sex; four adult males; 
one adult, possibly female; two juveniles of indeterminate sex; and 
one cremated individual.

    In the Federal Register (84 FR 38045, August 5, 2019), column 3, 
paragraph 4, sentence 8 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 1,727 associated funerary objects are one charcoal sample; 
one whelk shell columella; one shell bead; one stone plummet; nine 
quartz pebbles; three chert bifaces; one sand sample; and 1,710 
pottery sherds.

    In the Federal Register (84 FR 38046, August 5, 2019), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1, under the heading ``Determinations Made by the 
Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology,'' is corrected by 
substituting the following sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 13 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (84 FR 38046, August 5, 2019), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 1,737 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 Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology, 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-
4490, email [email protected], by January 4, 2021. After that date, 
if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of 
the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Miccosukee 
Tribe of Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously listed as the 
Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & 
Tampa Reservations)); and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma may proceed.
    The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology is responsible for 
notifying The Consulted and Invited Tribes identified in the August 5, 
2019 notice that this notice has been published.

    Dated: November 24, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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