[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 18 (Thursday, January 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4282-4283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01650]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033315; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 
University has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation 
with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, 
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. 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 should 
submit a written request to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains 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 should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the address in this 
notice by February 28, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Capone, Curator and NAGPRA 
Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity 
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138,

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telephone (617) 496-3702, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, MA. The human remains were removed from the 
Green Farm site, Jefferson County, NY.
    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. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology professional staff in consultation 
with representatives of the Oneida Indian Nation [previously listed as 
Oneida Nation of New York] and the Onondaga Nation. The Oneida Nation 
[previously listed as Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin] was invited 
to consult but did not respond to repeated invitations. Hereafter, the 
Indian Tribes listed in this section are referred to as ``The Consulted 
and Invited Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    In July of 1906, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from the Green Farm site in Jefferson County, 
NY, by Irwin Hayden and Mark Raymond Harrington as part of a Peabody 
Museum Expedition. The fragmentary postcranial remains belong to an 
adult of indeterminate sex and age. No known individual was identified. 
No associated funerary objects are present.
    Museum documentation indicates that the Green Farm site is in the 
town of Adams Center, Jefferson County, NY, and is approximately two 
miles southwest of the Heath Farm site. Interments from the Green Farm 
site most likely date to the Late Woodland period (A.D. 1000-1600). 
Museum documentary and archeological evidence, which includes a ceramic 
pipe fragment and ceramic vessels with globular bodies, constricted, 
zoned-incised necks, and castellated rims recovered from the Green Farm 
site (but not associated with the burial) supports a Late Woodland 
period date for the interment.
    In the Late Woodland period, Jefferson County, NY, was occupied by 
the so-called ``Jefferson County Iroquois'' in several distinct 
settlement clusters. The Green Farm site is considered part of the Dry 
Hill settlement cluster and is situated on a ``rounded hilltop near a 
brook,'' consistent with settlement patterns associated with the 
Jefferson County Iroquois. Ceramic types and decorations present at the 
site are also consistent with those found at other Dry Hill cluster 
sites. The Jefferson County Iroquois left their territory during the 
1500s and 1600s and joined other Iroquoian groups, most notably the 
Onondaga Nation. Based on the archeological materials from the Green 
Farm site, museum documentation, and consultation information presented 
by the Oneida Indian Nation and the Onondaga Nation, the preponderance 
of the evidence indicates a relationship of shared group identity 
between these human remains and the Onondaga Nation.

Determinations Made by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 
Harvard University

    Officials of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 
University have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American human remains and the Onondaga Nation.

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 should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Patricia 
Capone, Curator and NAGPRA Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 
496-3702, email [email protected], by February 28, 2022. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains to the Onondaga Nation may proceed.
    The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 
is responsible for notifying The Consulted and Invited Tribes that this 
notice has been published.

    Dated: January 19, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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