80_FR_23663 80 FR 23582 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

80 FR 23582 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 81 (April 28, 2015)

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FR Document2015-09911

The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 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 associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

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Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology has completed an 
inventory of associated funerary objects, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated 
funerary objects and present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. 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 associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the Robert S. Peabody Museum 
of Archaeology. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of 
control of the 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 associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology at the address in this 
notice by May 28, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, 
telephone (978) 749-4490, email rwheeler@andover.edu.

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 completion of an inventory of associated funerary 
objects under the control of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. The associated funerary 
objects were removed from the Nevin site at Blue Hill in Hancock 
County, ME.
    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 associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the associated funerary objects was made 
by the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs 
(previously listed as the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians); Houlton 
Band of Maliseet Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the Penobscot Nation 
(previously listed as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine).

History and Description of the Associated Funerary Objects

    In 1936 and 1937, human remains representing, at minimum, 19 
individuals were removed from the Nevin site, Hancock County, ME. The 
Nevin site is located on Mill Island in the town of Blue Hill, along 
Blue Hill Bay. The site was investigated by Douglas Byers and Frederick 
Johnson as part of their study of the Nevin shell mound from 1936 
through 1940; in March 1941, the human remains were transferred on loan 
to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard 
University, Cambridge, MA (a completely separate institution from the 
Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and referred to here as the 
Harvard Peabody) and control was transferred in two separate instances 
on June 28, 1989 and August 8, 1997. The Robert S. Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology retained control of the associated funerary objects. Byers 
describes the excavation of twelve graves containing the burials of 22 
to 27 individuals; in some cases human remains were not collected. The 
Harvard Peabody has detailed information on the human remains; also see 
the Harvard Peabody's two entries for ``Bluehill Falls, Nevin 
Shellheap'' in the Culturally Unidentifiable (CUI) Native American 
Inventories Database maintained on the National NAGPRA Program Web 
site. The 462 associated funerary objects are stone adze (4), antler 
tool (2), birch bark fragment (9), pileated woodpecker beak (1), beaver 
tooth and tooth fragments (16), stone biface (1), faunal remains, teeth 
and bone fragments (188), animal teeth and fragments (31), antler 
flaking tool (1), bone flaking tool (1), bird bone flute (1), harpoon 
foreshaft (3), stone gouge (3), hammerstone (6), animal tooth, incisor 
(4), mink jaw fragments (2), modified mineral fragments, iron (1), red 
ochre and soil (1), bone pendant (2), perforated animal teeth and 
fragments (34), perforators, awls, daggers, pikes, knives, and needles 
of bone, including fragments (100), stone plummet (6), bone point (2), 
stone bayonet and fragments (2), bone harpoons (9), stone projectile 
point (1), polishing stone (1), iron pyrites (9), scraper or flesher of 
bone (1), soil sample (2), swordfish rostrum (1), deer antler socket 
(1), unmodified stone (1), porpoise vertebra and fragments (12), and 
hammerstone and iron pyrites with fragments (3). An additional 52 
associated funerary objects are currently missing; the missing 
associated funerary objects are beaver tooth (2), biface (3), animal 
bone fragment (4), stone gouge (1), miscellaneous faunal remains (18), 
perforated animal tooth fragments (16), bone perforator (6), and bone 
point (2).
    Information about the Nevin site is found in Douglas Byers's 
report, The Nevin Shellheap: Burials and Observations (1979), in the 
extensive fieldnotes of the Nevin site project on file at the Robert S. 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Lesley Shaw's article ``A Biocultural 
Evaluation of the Skeletal Population from the Nevin Site, Blue Hill, 
Maine'' (1988), Brian Robinson's Ph.D. dissertation Burial Ritual, 
Groups, and Boundaries on the Gulf of Maine, 8600-3800 B.P. (2001), 
Bruce J. Bourque and Harold W. Krueger's book chapter ``Dietary 
Reconstruction from Human Bone Isotopes for Five Coastal New England 
Populations'' (1994), and in the files of the Maine Historic 
Preservation

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Commission, Maine Archaeological Survey (site #042.001). Byers suggests 
that the site was associated with a tidal reversing falls, an unusual 
natural phenomenon created by tidal flow funneled through a narrow 
channel, creating high standing waves. Radiocarbon dates and material 
culture affirm that the Nevin site burials are part of the Late Archaic 
Late Moorehead Burial Tradition, circa 4,000 to 3,700 B.P. Burial in a 
shell mound contributed to preservation of both the human remains and 
associated funerary objects of animal bone. Occupation of the Nevin 
shell mound pre-dates the interments and continued well into the 
Woodland period. At least one of the burials from Nevin is believed to 
be from this later Woodland occupation (see Shaw, 1988).
    Affiliation of the Nevin site associated funerary objects with the 
contemporary Wabanaki tribes is based on the following lines of 
evidence: geographical, biological, archeological, linguistic, 
folklore, and oral tradition. Oral history narratives that place the 
origins of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet in Maine are 
often tied to specific places, landscape features, and ecological zones 
characteristic of Maine. These oral history narratives are significant 
in affiliating the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet with the 
Nevin site, especially as archeological evidence is equivocal regarding 
connections. Long term occupation and re-occupation of places, like the 
Nevin site, along with the significance of place-names, canoe and trail 
routes, and landscape features reaffirm Wabanaki connections and may 
reflect more ancient traditions of aggregation in certain places. 
Contemporary archeological theory recognizes that shell mounds, like 
the Nevin site, as symbolically charged and highly visible monuments, 
and also recognize the long temporal use of such monuments (for 
example, see Paul R. Fish et al. on shell mounds as persistent places 
in the 2013 book The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale 
Economies, edited by Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner Jr.). 
Continuity between ancient and contemporary indigenous people is 
supported by the long temporal occupation of the Nevin shell mound by 
both Archaic and Woodland cultures.
    Archeologist Bonnie Newsom (2008) conducted interviews with Maine 
archeologists regarding their ideas and opinions on NAGPRA and 
affiliation, especially as it relates to the 1000 year rule proposed by 
the Maine Historical Commission. The opinions of archeologists range 
from absolute certainty that there is no way to affiliate the Nevin 
site with contemporary tribes to more moderate views that recognize the 
archeological evidence is equivocal. One archeologist interviewed by 
Newsom expressed the opinion that the Susquehanna Tradition did 
represent an intrusion into the area that lasted for about 1,000 years 
and cited their research on bone artifacts to support this statement. 
That archeologist further noted it seemed unlikely that the more 
ancient population had been completely replaced by Susquehanna people.
    Anthropological perspectives regarding affiliation of the Wabanaki 
peoples with the cultures of the Late Archaic are consistent with the 
contemporary viewpoint of the Wabanaki. Three anthropologists who have 
worked closely with the Wabanaki were interviewed about the affiliation 
of contemporary Maine tribes and the Moorehead Tradition; all three 
stated that Wabanaki oral tradition is a reliable source of information 
and that narratives are often tied to specific landscape features, with 
language and stories reflecting a long presence in Maine. Additional 
information about each line of evidence used in this determination is 
on file at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology.

Determinations Made by the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology

    Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 514 objects 
described in this 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. Only the 462 associated funerary 
objects that have been located are eligible for transfer of control at 
this time.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American associated funerary objects and the Aroostook Band of Micmacs 
(previously listed as the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians); Houlton 
Band of Maliseet Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the Penobscot Nation 
(previously listed as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine).

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 associated funerary objects should 
submit a written request with information in support of the request to 
Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips 
Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-4490, 
email rwheeler@andover.edu, by May 28, 2015. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
associated funerary objects to the Aroostook Band of Micmacs 
(previously listed as the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians); Houlton 
Band of Maliseet Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the Penobscot Nation 
(previously listed as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine) may proceed.
    The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology is responsible for 
notifying the Aroostook Band of Micmacs (previously listed as the 
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians); Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; 
Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the Penobscot Nation (previously listed as the 
Penobscot Tribe of Maine) that this notice has been published.

    Dated: April 7, 2015.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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                                                    685–3849 x2, email plape@uw.edu, by                     submit a written request with                         June 28, 1989 and August 8, 1997. The
                                                    May 28, 2015. After that date, if no                    information in support of the request to              Robert S. Peabody Museum of
                                                    additional requestors have come                         the Robert S. Peabody Museum of                       Archaeology retained control of the
                                                    forward, transfer of control of the                     Archaeology at the address in this                    associated funerary objects. Byers
                                                    human remains and associated funerary                   notice by May 28, 2015.                               describes the excavation of twelve
                                                    object to the Confederated Tribes and                   ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert                graves containing the burials of 22 to 27
                                                    Bands of the Yakama Nation, the                         S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology,                     individuals; in some cases human
                                                    Confederated Tribes of the Colville                     Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street,                    remains were not collected. The
                                                    Reservation, and the Wanapum Band, a                    Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978)                    Harvard Peabody has detailed
                                                    non-federally recognized Indian group                   749–4490, email rwheeler@andover.edu.                 information on the human remains; also
                                                    (if joined to one or more of the tribes)                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
                                                                                                                                                                  see the Harvard Peabody’s two entries
                                                    may proceed.                                            here given in accordance with the                     for ‘‘Bluehill Falls, Nevin Shellheap’’ in
                                                       The Burke Museum is responsible for                  Native American Graves Protection and                 the Culturally Unidentifiable (CUI)
                                                    notifying the Confederated Tribes and                   Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.                  Native American Inventories Database
                                                    Bands of the Yakama Nation, the                         3003, of the completion of an inventory               maintained on the National NAGPRA
                                                    Confederated Tribes of the Colville                     of associated funerary objects under the              Program Web site. The 462 associated
                                                    Reservation, and the Wanapum Band, a                    control of the Robert S. Peabody                      funerary objects are stone adze (4),
                                                    non-federally recognized Indian group,                  Museum of Archaeology, Phillips                       antler tool (2), birch bark fragment (9),
                                                    that this notice has been published.                    Academy, Andover, MA. The associated                  pileated woodpecker beak (1), beaver
                                                     Dated: April 2, 2015.                                  funerary objects were removed from the                tooth and tooth fragments (16), stone
                                                    Mariah Soriano,                                         Nevin site at Blue Hill in Hancock                    biface (1), faunal remains, teeth and
                                                                                                            County, ME.                                           bone fragments (188), animal teeth and
                                                    Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
                                                                                                              This notice is published as part of the             fragments (31), antler flaking tool (1),
                                                    [FR Doc. 2015–09865 Filed 4–27–15; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                            National Park Service’s administrative                bone flaking tool (1), bird bone flute (1),
                                                    BILLING CODE 4312–50–P                                                                                        harpoon foreshaft (3), stone gouge (3),
                                                                                                            responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
                                                                                                            U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in              hammerstone (6), animal tooth, incisor
                                                                                                            this notice are the sole responsibility of            (4), mink jaw fragments (2), modified
                                                    DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                                                                                                            the museum, institution, or Federal                   mineral fragments, iron (1), red ochre
                                                    National Park Service                                   agency that has control of the Native                 and soil (1), bone pendant (2),
                                                                                                            American associated funerary objects.                 perforated animal teeth and fragments
                                                    [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–18066;                                                                                       (34), perforators, awls, daggers, pikes,
                                                    PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]                            The National Park Service is not
                                                                                                            responsible for the determinations in                 knives, and needles of bone, including
                                                                                                            this notice.                                          fragments (100), stone plummet (6),
                                                    Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert
                                                                                                                                                                  bone point (2), stone bayonet and
                                                    S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology,                       Consultation                                          fragments (2), bone harpoons (9), stone
                                                    Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
                                                                                                               A detailed assessment of the                       projectile point (1), polishing stone (1),
                                                    AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.                associated funerary objects was made by               iron pyrites (9), scraper or flesher of
                                                    ACTION: Notice.                                         the Robert S. Peabody Museum of                       bone (1), soil sample (2), swordfish
                                                                                                            Archaeology professional staff in                     rostrum (1), deer antler socket (1),
                                                    SUMMARY:    The Robert S. Peabody                       consultation with representatives of the              unmodified stone (1), porpoise vertebra
                                                    Museum of Archaeology has completed                     Aroostook Band of Micmacs (previously                 and fragments (12), and hammerstone
                                                    an inventory of associated funerary                     listed as the Aroostook Band of Micmac                and iron pyrites with fragments (3). An
                                                    objects, in consultation with the                       Indians); Houlton Band of Maliseet                    additional 52 associated funerary
                                                    appropriate Indian tribes or Native                     Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the                 objects are currently missing; the
                                                    Hawaiian organizations, and has                         Penobscot Nation (previously listed as                missing associated funerary objects are
                                                    determined that there is a cultural                     the Penobscot Tribe of Maine).                        beaver tooth (2), biface (3), animal bone
                                                    affiliation between the associated                                                                            fragment (4), stone gouge (1),
                                                    funerary objects and present-day Indian                 History and Description of the                        miscellaneous faunal remains (18),
                                                    tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations.                Associated Funerary Objects                           perforated animal tooth fragments (16),
                                                    Lineal descendants or representatives of                   In 1936 and 1937, human remains                    bone perforator (6), and bone point (2).
                                                    any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian                     representing, at minimum, 19                             Information about the Nevin site is
                                                    organization not identified in this notice              individuals were removed from the                     found in Douglas Byers’s report, The
                                                    that wish to request transfer of control                Nevin site, Hancock County, ME. The                   Nevin Shellheap: Burials and
                                                    of these associated funerary objects                    Nevin site is located on Mill Island in               Observations (1979), in the extensive
                                                    should submit a written request to the                  the town of Blue Hill, along Blue Hill                fieldnotes of the Nevin site project on
                                                    Robert S. Peabody Museum of                             Bay. The site was investigated by                     file at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of
                                                    Archaeology. If no additional requestors                Douglas Byers and Frederick Johnson as                Archaeology, Lesley Shaw’s article ‘‘A
                                                    come forward, transfer of control of the                part of their study of the Nevin shell                Biocultural Evaluation of the Skeletal
                                                    associated funerary objects to the lineal               mound from 1936 through 1940; in                      Population from the Nevin Site, Blue
                                                    descendants, Indian tribes, or Native                   March 1941, the human remains were                    Hill, Maine’’ (1988), Brian Robinson’s
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                                                    Hawaiian organizations stated in this                   transferred on loan to the Peabody                    Ph.D. dissertation Burial Ritual, Groups,
                                                    notice may proceed.                                     Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology                   and Boundaries on the Gulf of Maine,
                                                    DATES: Lineal descendants or                            at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA                  8600–3800 B.P. (2001), Bruce J. Bourque
                                                    representatives of any Indian tribe or                  (a completely separate institution from               and Harold W. Krueger’s book chapter
                                                    Native Hawaiian organization not                        the Robert S. Peabody Museum of                       ‘‘Dietary Reconstruction from Human
                                                    identified in this notice that wish to                  Archaeology and referred to here as the               Bone Isotopes for Five Coastal New
                                                    request transfer of control of these                    Harvard Peabody) and control was                      England Populations’’ (1994), and in the
                                                    associated funerary objects should                      transferred in two separate instances on              files of the Maine Historic Preservation


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                                                    Commission, Maine Archaeological                        certainty that there is no way to affiliate           Museum of Archaeology, Phillips
                                                    Survey (site #042.001). Byers suggests                  the Nevin site with contemporary tribes               Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover,
                                                    that the site was associated with a tidal               to more moderate views that recognize                 MA 01810, telephone (978) 749–4490,
                                                    reversing falls, an unusual natural                     the archeological evidence is equivocal.              email rwheeler@andover.edu, by May
                                                    phenomenon created by tidal flow                        One archeologist interviewed by                       28, 2015. After that date, if no
                                                    funneled through a narrow channel,                      Newsom expressed the opinion that the                 additional requestors have come
                                                    creating high standing waves.                           Susquehanna Tradition did represent an                forward, transfer of control of the
                                                    Radiocarbon dates and material culture                  intrusion into the area that lasted for               associated funerary objects to the
                                                    affirm that the Nevin site burials are                  about 1,000 years and cited their                     Aroostook Band of Micmacs (previously
                                                    part of the Late Archaic Late Moorehead                 research on bone artifacts to support                 listed as the Aroostook Band of Micmac
                                                    Burial Tradition, circa 4,000 to 3,700                  this statement. That archeologist further             Indians); Houlton Band of Maliseet
                                                    B.P. Burial in a shell mound contributed                noted it seemed unlikely that the more                Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the
                                                    to preservation of both the human                       ancient population had been completely                Penobscot Nation (previously listed as
                                                    remains and associated funerary objects                 replaced by Susquehanna people.                       the Penobscot Tribe of Maine) may
                                                    of animal bone. Occupation of the Nevin                   Anthropological perspectives                        proceed.
                                                    shell mound pre-dates the interments                    regarding affiliation of the Wabanaki                    The Robert S. Peabody Museum of
                                                    and continued well into the Woodland                    peoples with the cultures of the Late                 Archaeology is responsible for notifying
                                                    period. At least one of the burials from                Archaic are consistent with the                       the Aroostook Band of Micmacs
                                                    Nevin is believed to be from this later                 contemporary viewpoint of the                         (previously listed as the Aroostook Band
                                                    Woodland occupation (see Shaw, 1988).                   Wabanaki. Three anthropologists who                   of Micmac Indians); Houlton Band of
                                                       Affiliation of the Nevin site associated             have worked closely with the Wabanaki                 Maliseet Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe;
                                                    funerary objects with the contemporary                  were interviewed about the affiliation of             and the Penobscot Nation (previously
                                                    Wabanaki tribes is based on the                         contemporary Maine tribes and the                     listed as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine)
                                                    following lines of evidence:                            Moorehead Tradition; all three stated                 that this notice has been published.
                                                    geographical, biological, archeological,                that Wabanaki oral tradition is a reliable             Dated: April 7, 2015.
                                                    linguistic, folklore, and oral tradition.               source of information and that                        Mariah Soriano,
                                                    Oral history narratives that place the                  narratives are often tied to specific                 Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
                                                    origins of the Penobscot,                               landscape features, with language and
                                                                                                                                                                  [FR Doc. 2015–09911 Filed 4–27–15; 8:45 am]
                                                    Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet in Maine                    stories reflecting a long presence in
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                                                    are often tied to specific places,                      Maine. Additional information about
                                                    landscape features, and ecological zones                each line of evidence used in this
                                                    characteristic of Maine. These oral                     determination is on file at the Robert S.             DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                                                    history narratives are significant in                   Peabody Museum of Archaeology.
                                                    affiliating the Penobscot,                                                                                    National Park Service
                                                    Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet with the                    Determinations Made by the Robert S.
                                                    Nevin site, especially as archeological                 Peabody Museum of Archaeology                         [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17918;
                                                    evidence is equivocal regarding                            Officials of the Robert S. Peabody                 PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
                                                    connections. Long term occupation and                   Museum of Archaeology have
                                                                                                                                                                  Notice of Inventory Completion:
                                                    re-occupation of places, like the Nevin                 determined that:                                      Thomas Burke Memorial Washington
                                                    site, along with the significance of                       • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
                                                                                                                                                                  State Museum, University of
                                                    place-names, canoe and trail routes, and                the 514 objects described in this notice
                                                                                                                                                                  Washington, Seattle, WA
                                                    landscape features reaffirm Wabanaki                    are reasonably believed to have been
                                                    connections and may reflect more                        placed with or near individual human                  AGENCY:   National Park Service, Interior.
                                                    ancient traditions of aggregation in                    remains at the time of death or later as              ACTION:   Notice.
                                                    certain places. Contemporary                            part of the death rite or ceremony. Only
                                                    archeological theory recognizes that                    the 462 associated funerary objects that              SUMMARY:    The Thomas Burke Memorial
                                                    shell mounds, like the Nevin site, as                   have been located are eligible for                    Washington State Museum (Burke
                                                    symbolically charged and highly visible                 transfer of control at this time.                     Museum) has completed an inventory of
                                                    monuments, and also recognize the long                     • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there             human remains, in consultation with
                                                    temporal use of such monuments (for                     is a relationship of shared group                     the appropriate Indian tribes or Native
                                                    example, see Paul R. Fish et al. on shell               identity that can be reasonably traced                Hawaiian organizations, and has
                                                    mounds as persistent places in the 2013                 between the Native American associated                determined that there is a cultural
                                                    book The Archaeology and Historical                     funerary objects and the Aroostook                    affiliation between the human remains
                                                    Ecology of Small Scale Economies,                       Band of Micmacs (previously listed as                 and present-day Indian tribes or Native
                                                    edited by Victor D. Thompson and                        the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians);                Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
                                                    James C. Waggoner Jr.). Continuity                      Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians;                     descendants or representatives of any
                                                    between ancient and contemporary                        Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the                          Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
                                                    indigenous people is supported by the                   Penobscot Nation (previously listed as                organization not identified in this notice
                                                    long temporal occupation of the Nevin                   the Penobscot Tribe of Maine).                        that wish to request transfer of control
                                                    shell mound by both Archaic and                                                                               of these human remains should submit
                                                                                                            Additional Requestors and Disposition                 a written request to the Burke Museum.
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                                                    Woodland cultures.
                                                       Archeologist Bonnie Newsom (2008)                      Lineal descendants or representatives               If no additional requestors come
                                                    conducted interviews with Maine                         of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian                forward, transfer of control of the
                                                    archeologists regarding their ideas and                 organization not identified in this notice            human remains to the lineal
                                                    opinions on NAGPRA and affiliation,                     that wish to request transfer of control              descendants, Indian tribes, or Native
                                                    especially as it relates to the 1000 year               of these associated funerary objects                  Hawaiian organizations stated in this
                                                    rule proposed by the Maine Historical                   should submit a written request with                  notice may proceed.
                                                    Commission. The opinions of                             information in support of the request to              DATES: Lineal descendants or
                                                    archeologists range from absolute                       Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert S. Peabody                representatives of any Indian tribe or


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GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesLineal 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 associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to
FR Citation80 FR 23582 

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