[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 178 (Thursday, September 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56695-56696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19976]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034523; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


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

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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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 amended a Notice of Inventory 
Completion published in the Federal Register on December 21, 2018. This 
notice amends the number of associated funerary objects in a collection 
removed from Williamson County, TN.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after October 17, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 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 amendments and determinations in 
this

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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.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (83 FR 65741-65743, 
December 21, 2018). Disposition of the items in the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion has not occurred. This notice amends the number of 
associated funerary objects which were not listed in the original 
notice. A total of 475 associated funerary objects from Williamson 
County, TN are reported here.

                                           Associated Funerary Objects
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              Site                  Original No.       Amended No.               Amended description
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Gray's Farm (40WM11) in          Not reported......             127  12 bone pins; one sharpening stone; two
 Williamson County, TN.                                               ceramic bottles; one ceramic jar; three
                                                                      ceramic effigy bowls; three shell spoons;
                                                                      one strand of shell beads; 95 shell beads;
                                                                      three bifaces; two faunal bone fragments;
                                                                      one shell fragment; two shell gorgets; and
                                                                      one projectile point.
Arnold Site (40WM5) in           Not reported......              27  One ceramic disk; five ceramic bowls; two
 Williamson County, TN.                                               ceramic effigy bowls; one ceramic bottle;
                                                                      two chunkey stones; two carved shell
                                                                      ornaments; one shell spoon; one stone ear
                                                                      plug or bead; and 12 faunal bone and teeth
                                                                      fragments.
Glass Mounds Site (40WM3) in     Not reported......              10  One faunal bone fragment; three shell
 Williamson County, TN.                                               beads; three mica pieces; two copper
                                                                      panpipe casings; and one copper axe.
Unknown location in Williamson   Not reported......               0  No associated funerary objects are present.
 County, TN.
Brentwood Library/Dr Jarman's    Not reported......             281  One biface blade; one bone awl; one bone
 Site (40WM210) (1882) in                                             hairpin; two ceramic beads; one ceramic
 Williamson County, TN.                                               bottle; 34 ceramic bowls or bowl
                                                                      fragments; one ceramic effigy bottle; five
                                                                      ceramic effigy bowls or bowl fragments;
                                                                      one ceramic effigy vessel; four ceramic
                                                                      jar or jar fragments; one lot of ceramic
                                                                      jar and bag of jar sherds; two ceramic
                                                                      pipe stems; 86 ceramic sherds; six ceramic
                                                                      vessel or vessel fragments; seven
                                                                      miniature ceramic vessel or vessel
                                                                      fragments; 12 charcoal and debitage; one
                                                                      daub; seven debitage; one discoidal; 32
                                                                      faunal bones; one ground stone fragment;
                                                                      one possible scraper; two projectile
                                                                      points; three rock fragments; 12 shell and
                                                                      bone fragments; 45 shell beads; one shell
                                                                      gorget; six shell or shell fragments; one
                                                                      stone axe; one stone ear plug/bead; one
                                                                      worked faunal bone; and one worked shell.
Brentwood Library/Dr Jarman's    Not reported......              30  Two ceramic bowls; one effigy bowl; one
 Site (40WM210) (1883) in                                             effigy jar; four shell fragments; two
 Williamson County, TN.                                               stone fragments; two stone flakes; one
                                                                      discoidal stone; and 17 pieces of
                                                                      charcoal.
Brentwood in Williamson County,  Not reported......               0  No associated funerary artifacts are
 TN.                                                                  present.
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Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University has determined that:
     The human remains represent the physical remains of 215 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 475 objects 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.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and 
any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed from the aboriginal land of the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band 
of Cherokee Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians 
in Oklahoma.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects in 
this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 17, 2022. If 
competing requests for disposition are received, the Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint 
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are 
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University is responsible 
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 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, 10.11, 
and 10.13.

    Dated: September 7, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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