[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 175 (Monday, September 12, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55846-55847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19618]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034492; 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: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard University, has completed an inventory of associated 
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The associated funerary 
object was removed from Barnstable County, MA.

DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary object in this notice 
may occur on or after October 12, 2022.

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ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Curator and NAGPRA Director, Peabody Museum 
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. The 
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this 
notice. Additional information on the determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or 
related records held by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard University.

Description

    The human remains associated with this funerary object were 
included in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal 
Register on August 14, 2003 (68 FR 48626-48634, August 14, 2003). 
Subsequently, these human remains were transferred to the Wampanoag 
Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
    In 1891, one associated funerary object was removed from North 
Truro in Barnstable County, MA, during a Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology expedition led by Marshall H. Saville. The one associated 
funerary object is a small, likely shell-tempered ceramic sherd.

Cultural Affiliation

    The associated funerary object in this notice is connected to one 
or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. 
There is a relationship of shared group identity between the 
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or 
more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following 
types of information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: 
archeological, geographical, historical, and oral traditional.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 
University has determined that:
     The one object described in this notice is 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the associated funerary object described 
in this notice and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as 
Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) and the Wampanoag Tribe 
of Gay Head (Aquinnah), who are the present-day Indian Tribes that 
represent people of Wampanoag descent.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary object 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the associated funerary object in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after October 12, 2022. If competing requests 
for repatriation are received, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 
Ethnology, Harvard University, must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the 
associated funerary object are considered a single request and not 
competing requests. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is 
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and 
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: August 31, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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