[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 24, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31575-31576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-11080]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033901; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Museum 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 further corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects originally 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on September 13, 2005, and subsequently corrected in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion Correction published in the Federal Register on 
December 21, 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 human remains 
and 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 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 Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology at the address in this notice by June 23, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody 
Institute of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 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 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 the Etowah site, Bartow County, GA 
and Little Egypt site, Murray County, GA.
    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 further corrects the number of associated funerary 
objects published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 54075-54076, September 13, 2005) and initially 
corrected in a Notice of Inventory Completion Correction in the Federal 
Register (83 FR 65726-65727, December 21, 2018). In June 2021, the 
Rochester Museum & Science Center in Rochester, NY, transferred control 
of human remains and associated funerary objects to the Robert S. 
Peabody Institute of Archaeology to aid in the repatriation of 
ancestral remains and belongings from Etowah. These human remains and 
associated belongings had been removed by Warren K. Moorehead between 
1925 and 1928 and given to the Rochester Museum & Science Center in 
1931. The updated counts and descriptions of the associated funerary 
objects reflect this transfer. Two additional items are counted among 
the associated funerary objects in this correction notice--one that was 
recently identified and one that had been stolen from the Peabody 
Institute and has been returned. Transfer of control of all the items 
listed in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 65726, December 21, 2018), column 3, 
paragraph 1, sentence 2, under the heading ``Correction'' is corrected 
by substituting the following sentence:

    Between 1925 and 1928, human remains representing a minimum of 
95 individuals were removed from the Etowah site, Bartow County, GA, 
by Warren King Moorehead of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 65726, December 21, 2018), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 2, under the heading ``Correction'' is corrected 
by substituting the following sentence:

    The 24,826 associated funerary objects are 34 animal bone 
fragments and fragment lots; one dog burial; one basketry fragment 
with clay matrix lot; three burnt clay, ceramic sherds, and animal 
bones in lot; one ceramic bead; two ceramic elbow pipes; two ceramic 
basket- or canoe-shaped pipe; one ceramic pipe; one ceramic handle; 
22 ceramic sherds; nine ceramic vessels; one lot of charcoal and 
soil; one concretion; two fragments of a copper axe with wooden 
handle; one copper covered wooden top knot, serpent shaped; two 
copper disks; 680 copper fragments, including wood fragments, copper 
bilobed arrow ornament, mica, adhered shell beads, textile and 
matting fragments, animal bone; 90 copper headdress, hair ornaments 
and fragments; 69 copper repousse plates and fragments; three 
fragments of daub and fire-hardened soil; 175 freshwater pearl 
beads; 56 freshwater periwinkle shells; seven freshwater shells and 
fragments; one fur fragment with copper staining; four galena 
crystals; one bear canine; one kaolin core with copper; one lot of 
kaolin, bark, animal bone fragments, mica, soil, and ceramic sherds; 
four large flint bifaces or swords; 11 chipped stone projectile 
points; one ground stone tool fragment; three leather fragments; one 
limestone spatulate celt; one lump of mineral ore; 108 matting 
fragments, including copper stained matting, textiles, and adhered 
shell beads; 83 mica fragments, some with copper stained matrix; 405 
miscellaneous shells and small shells; 12 modified animal bone 
fragments; one quartz preform; 22,528 shell beads, including divers 
sizes and shapes (round, ovoid, tubular, disc, barrel, elongated, 
irregular), as well as mixed lots of shell beads, freshwater pearl 
beads, Olivella and Marginella shell beads, soil matrix, ceramic 
sherds, as well as copper stained shell beads, and fragments of 
deteriorated beads; two rough shell disks; 13 shell gorgets and 
gorget fragments; 166 small stones; three soil samples; 10 pieces of 
wood and animal bone mixed with soil in lot; five stone celts and 
fragments; five stone discoidals; 10 textile fragments, including 
some mixed lots with wood, copper fragments, and shell beads; nine 
tortoise shell strips or bands; one unmodified horse conch shell; 
six whelk shell cup fragments; 22 whelk shell fragments; one shell 
dipper; two whelk shell columella ornaments and fragments; 237 wood 
fragments, and mixed lots of wood with copper staining, mica, and 
soil; one worked stone fragment; two large Atlantic cockle shells; 
and one ``puffball'' fungus.

    In the Federal Register (70 FR 54076, September 13, 2005), column 
2, paragraph 1, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human 
remains described above represent the physical remains of 105 
individuals of Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 65727, December 21, 2018), column 1, 
paragraph 3 is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 24,869 
objects described above are reasonably believed to have been placed 
with or near individual human remains at the time of

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death or later as part of a 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, Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, 
telephone (978) 749-4490, email [email protected], by June 23, 2022. 
After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects to the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Kialegee Tribal Town; 
Poarch Band of Creek Indians [previously listed as Poarch Band of 
Creeks]; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town 
(hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'') may proceed.
    The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology is responsible for 
notifying The Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: May 4, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-11080 Filed 5-23-22; 8:45 am]
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