[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43387-43388]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14391]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036141; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Robert S. Peabody 
Institute of Archaeology, Andover, 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 Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in 
the Federal Register on September 22, 2017, corrected on January 30, 
2018, and corrected again on November 8, 2019. This notice amends the 
number of associated funerary objects in a collection removed from 
Middlesex County, MA.

DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice 
may occur on or after August 7, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 
180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-4490, 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 
Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology. The National Park Service 
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Additional 
information on the amendments and determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or 
related records held by the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on September 22, 2017 (82 
FR 44460-44461) and corrected in notices published on January 30, 2018 
(83 FR 4266-4267), and November 9, 2019 (84 FR 60442-60443). 
Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Inventory 
Completion has not occurred. In mid-2021, the Robert S. Peabody 
Institute of Archaeology received a collection of artifacts from the 
estate of Dale Farrell that included one bifacial point from Mansion 
Inn site in Wayland, Middlesex County, MA. The bifacial point is an 
additional associated funerary object from this site.

                                  Table of Changes--Associated Funerary Objects
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                 Site                    Original No.     Amended No.              Amended description
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Mansion Inn, Wayland, Middlesex                   274              275   Three adze fragments; one axe fragment;
 County, MA.                                                              122 bifaces and biface fragments; 18
                                                                          flakes/debitage; 11 lots, flakes/
                                                                          debitage; one lot, calcined bone
                                                                          fragments; two charcoal samples; one
                                                                          charred nut fragment; one hammerstone;
                                                                          22 worked and unworked pebbles and
                                                                          pebble fragments; 22 biface preform
                                                                          fragments; one shark tooth; one
                                                                          ceramic sherd; one lot, red ochre and
                                                                          animal bone fragments; 18 groundstone
                                                                          fragments; 10 fragments, fire cracked
                                                                          rock; one thumbnail scraper, and 39
                                                                          unworked stone fragments.
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Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology has 
determined that:
     The 275 objects described in this amended 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, and 
the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary 
objects 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 identified in this notice 
and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the 
Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation and the Nipmuc Nation, non-
federally recognized Indian groups.
    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 objects in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after August 7, 2023. If competing requests 
for repatriation are received, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of 
Archaeology must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to 
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology 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, 10.10, 
10.13, and 10.14.

    Dated: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14391 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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