[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51364-51365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13244]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038099; 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 PMAE has completed an inventory of human 
remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there 
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated 
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in 
this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 17, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, 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 
PMAE, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or 
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The one lot of 
associated funerary objects is one lot of faunal remains. In 1906, Mark 
Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden removed these human remains and 
associated funerary objects from the St. Lawrence site in Jefferson 
County, NY, as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition.
    Based on the information available, one lot of associated funerary 
objects has been identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects 
is one lot of faunal remains. These associated funerary objects were 
removed from the Perch River Bay site in Jefferson County, NY, by Mark 
Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum 
Expedition. The human remains associated with these associated funerary 
objects were listed in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in 
the Federal Register on October 5, 2001 (66 FR 51062-51064) and a 
correction Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal 
Register on March 14, 2003 (68 FR 12376-12377).
    Based on the information available, one lot of associated funerary 
objects has been identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects 
is one lot of ceramic vessels and sherds, ceramic pipe fragments, 
ceramic effigy pipe fragments, ceramic discs, bone tools, faunal 
remains, botanical remains, shell beads, stone beads, lithics, flakes, 
charcoal, charred wood, ground stone tools, net sinkers, worked stones, 
unworked stones, shell, worked faunal

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remains, brass buttons, an iron spring, iron nails, glass, and soil. 
These associated funerary objects were removed from the Durfee Farm 
site in Jefferson County, NY, by Mark Raymond Harrington and Irwin 
Hayden in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition. The human 
remains associated with these associated funerary objects were listed 
in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register 
on October 5, 2001 (66 FR 51062-51064) and a correction Notice of 
Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on March 14, 
2003 (68 FR 12376-12377).

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available 
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in 
this notice.

Determinations

    The PMAE has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     The three lots of objects described in this notice are 
reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the 
death rite or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Oneida 
Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; and the Onondaga Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 17, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the PMAE must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The PMAE 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 10.10.

    Dated: June 7, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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