83 FR 23481 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 98 (Monday, May 21, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 23481-23482] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-10781] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0025513; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and/or sacred objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items 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 claim these cultural items should submit a written request with information in support of the claim to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the address in this notice by June 20, 2018. 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: Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the control of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and/or sacred objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 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 cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. History and Description of the Cultural Items In 1906, Grace Nicholson purchased an antler ornament headdress, a red woodpecker headdress, and a roll for the red woodpecker headdress on behalf of Lewis Hobart Farlow. Farlow purchased these three cultural items from Nicholson and donated them to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the same year. Peabody Museum records note these cultural items were collected from the ``Weigat Indians,'' or Wiyot, of Humboldt Bay, California. The antler ornament headdress, red woodpecker headdress, and roll have been identified as Wiyot and as sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony. The antler ornament headdress is constructed of leather, suede, and seven carved antler ornaments; red and black paints were applied to sections of the leather and to the antler ornaments. Consultation with representatives from the Wiyot Tribe indicated this antler headdress was most likely used during the Wiyot World Renewal Ceremony, more specifically for the White Deerskin Dance or possibly the Jump Dance. The physical properties of the headdress are entwined with sacred concepts and actions. The red woodpecker headdress is constructed from tanned deerhide and approximately 40 scalps of pileated woodpecker. Associated with this headdress, as a separate catalog number, is a storage roll constructed of a worked and polished cylindrical piece of wood, likely redwood. Consultation with representatives from the Wiyot Tribe indicated that the storage roll was required for the safe storage of the headdress and should be considered a part of the medicine associated with the headdress. Consultation with representatives from the Wiyot Tribe indicated this red woodpecker headdress and associated storage roll were most likely used during the World Renewal Ceremony, and possibly with the Jump Dance. These three cultural items meet the definition of sacred objects because they are specific ceremonial objects required by the Wiyot to properly perform dances and prayers for World Renewal Ceremonies, including the White Deerskin Dance and the Jump Dance. Archeological, historical, and ethnographic data also demonstrate that these three cultural items have ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural importance central to the Wiyot as regalia. Consultation with representatives from the Wiyot Tribe indicated that regalia and medicine items were not owned, but ``cared for'' by individuals, who were able to lend them, including in exchange for money, but not sell them. These Wiyot headdresses and the associated roll could not be sold because they were cared for, but not than owned, by the families and individuals. Due to the caretakers' collective responsibility for the headdresses and roll, an individual could not sell or transfer possession of them. For these reasons, based on the cultural information provided through consultation, and further supported by ethnographic and historical data, these three cultural items meet the category definition for objects of cultural patrimony because they have ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural importance central to the Wiyot for the proper performance of World Renewal Ceremonies, specifically the White Deerskin Dance and the Jump Dance, [[Page 23482]] and could not have been alienated or conveyed by an individual. In 1910, Grace Nicholson and Carroll Hartman purchased a woman's dance skirt on behalf of Lewis Hobart Farlow, in whose name it was donated to the Peabody Museum that same year. Prior to its purchase by Nicholson and Hartman, the dance skirt was owned by Isaac A. Beers, the United States Indian Agent at Hoopa from 1890-1893. The circumstance under which Beers collected the dance skirt is not known. Peabody Museum records describe the object as ``Wiegat--Very old fine Dance Skirt--Beer's Collection'' and from the ``Wiyot Indians, California.'' The woman's dance skirt has been identified as Wiyot and has been determined to be a sacred object. This dance skirt is made of soft, tanned leather, which is fringed at the bottom hem. A solitary shell object of modified abalone is fastened to a leather strand within the fringe. Another leather strand within the fringe is adorned with three blue glass beads and one long black glass bead. The waist of the skirt is decorated with maidenhair fern and beargrass wraps, as well as iris twine. Dangling from the edge of the twine-wrapped waist are thin twine-wrapped strands adorned with two small bivalve shells and finished with metal thimbles; some strands also contain blue glass beads. Consultation evidence suggests this skirt was most likely made as regalia for an adolescent girl's Coming of Age Ceremony, also known as the Flower Ceremony, due to its size and decoration. Families spent years gathering the materials for a girl's ``First Dress,'' which was worn initially at her Coming of Age Ceremony. Based on the size of this skirt, and the effort invested in its ornamentation, as well as the location of decoration at the waist, it was likely made as a ceremonial dance skirt for a girl's puberty rites. As abalone is associated with women's blood, the single cut and polished abalone shell bead fastened within the fringe at the skirt's bottom hem further supports the attribution of this skirt to the Coming of Age Ceremony. Museum documentation of the item as a ``Very old fine Dance Skirt'' supports the categorization of this skirt as a specific ceremonial item. According to consultation evidence and other supporting evidence this dance skirt would be used for multiple religious ceremonies, possibly including the Flower Ceremony, Jump Dance, and Brush Dance. This cultural item meets the definition of a sacred object because it is a specific ceremonial object required by the Wiyot for the practice of traditional religious ceremonies and dances, such as the Flower Ceremony, the World Renewal Ceremony, and the Brush Dance, by present-day adherents. Wiyot women and girls wore dance skirts for multiple ceremonies because the skirts were imbued with spiritual power and were potent enough to ritually purify ceremonial dance grounds. Determinations Made by the Peabody Museum Officials of the Peabody Museum have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), the four cultural items described above are specific ceremonial objects needed by traditional Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional Native American religions by their present-day adherents. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the three cultural items described above have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an individual. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony and the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, California; Blue Lake Rancheria, California; and Wiyot Tribe, California (previously listed as the Table Bluff Reservation--Wiyot Tribe). Additional Requestors and Disposition Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request with information in support of the claim to Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, email [email protected], by June 20, 2018. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony to the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, California; Blue Lake Rancheria, California; and Wiyot Tribe, California (previously listed as the Table Bluff Reservation--Wiyot Tribe) may proceed. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is responsible for notifying the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, California; Blue Lake Rancheria, California; and Wiyot Tribe, California (previously listed as the Table Bluff Reservation--Wiyot Tribe) that this notice has been published. Dated: April 30, 2018. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2018-10781 Filed 5-18-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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Public Availability of Comments Peabody Museum of Archaeology and leather and to the antler ornaments.
All comments we receive become part Ethnology. If no additional claimants Consultation with representatives from
of the public record associated with this come forward, transfer of control of the the Wiyot Tribe indicated this antler
action. Requests for copies of comments cultural items to the lineal descendants, headdress was most likely used during
will be handled in accordance with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian the Wiyot World Renewal Ceremony,
Freedom of Information Act, NEPA, and organizations stated in this notice may more specifically for the White Deerskin
Service and Department of the Interior proceed. Dance or possibly the Jump Dance. The
policies and procedures. Before DATES: Lineal descendants or physical properties of the headdress are
including your address, phone number, representatives of any Indian Tribe or entwined with sacred concepts and
email address, or other personal Native Hawaiian organization not actions.
identifying information in your identified in this notice that wish to The red woodpecker headdress is
comment, you should be aware that claim these cultural items should constructed from tanned deerhide and
your entire comment—including your submit a written request with approximately 40 scalps of pileated
personal identifying information—may information in support of the claim to woodpecker. Associated with this
be made publicly available at any time. the Peabody Museum of Archaeology headdress, as a separate catalog number,
While you can ask us to withhold your and Ethnology at the address in this is a storage roll constructed of a worked
personal identifying information from notice by June 20, 2018. and polished cylindrical piece of wood,
public review, we cannot guarantee that ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody likely redwood. Consultation with
we will be able to do so. All Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, representatives from the Wiyot Tribe
submissions from organizations or Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, indicated that the storage roll was
businesses, and from individuals Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) required for the safe storage of the
identifying themselves as 496–3702, email pcapone@ headdress and should be considered a
representatives or officials of fas.harvard.edu. part of the medicine associated with the
organizations or businesses, will be headdress. Consultation with
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
made available for public disclosure in representatives from the Wiyot Tribe
here given in accordance with the
their entirety. indicated this red woodpecker
Native American Graves Protection and
headdress and associated storage roll
Authority Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
were most likely used during the World
3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
We provide this notice under the Renewal Ceremony, and possibly with
items under the control of the Peabody
authority of section 10(c) of the Act and the Jump Dance.
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
its implementing regulations (50 CFR Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, These three cultural items meet the
17.22 and 17.32) and NEPA (42 U.S.C. that meet the definition of objects of definition of sacred objects because they
4371 et seq.) and its implementing cultural patrimony and/or sacred objects are specific ceremonial objects required
regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). under 25 U.S.C. 3001. by the Wiyot to properly perform dances
This notice is published as part of the and prayers for World Renewal
Amy L. Lueders, Ceremonies, including the White
Regional Director, Southwest Region, National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Deerskin Dance and the Jump Dance.
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in Archeological, historical, and
[FR Doc. 2018–10797 Filed 5–18–18; 8:45 am] ethnographic data also demonstrate that
this notice are the sole responsibility of
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the museum, institution, or Federal these three cultural items have ongoing
Agency that has control of the Native historical, traditional, and cultural
American cultural items. The National importance central to the Wiyot as
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR regalia. Consultation with
Park Service is not responsible for the
National Park Service determinations in this notice. representatives from the Wiyot Tribe
indicated that regalia and medicine
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025513; History and Description of the Cultural items were not owned, but ‘‘cared for’’
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Items by individuals, who were able to lend
In 1906, Grace Nicholson purchased them, including in exchange for money,
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
an antler ornament headdress, a red but not sell them. These Wiyot
Items: Peabody Museum of
woodpecker headdress, and a roll for headdresses and the associated roll
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
the red woodpecker headdress on behalf could not be sold because they were
University, Cambridge, MA
of Lewis Hobart Farlow. Farlow cared for, but not than owned, by the
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. purchased these three cultural items families and individuals. Due to the
ACTION: Notice. from Nicholson and donated them to the caretakers’ collective responsibility for
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and the headdresses and roll, an individual
SUMMARY: The Peabody Museum of Ethnology in the same year. Peabody could not sell or transfer possession of
Archaeology and Ethnology, in Museum records note these cultural them. For these reasons, based on the
consultation with the appropriate items were collected from the ‘‘Weigat cultural information provided through
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Indians,’’ or Wiyot, of Humboldt Bay, consultation, and further supported by
organizations, has determined that the California. The antler ornament ethnographic and historical data, these
cultural items listed in this notice meet three cultural items meet the category
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headdress, red woodpecker headdress,
the definition of objects of cultural and roll have been identified as Wiyot definition for objects of cultural
patrimony and/or sacred objects. Lineal and as sacred objects and objects of patrimony because they have ongoing
descendants or representatives of any cultural patrimony. historical, traditional, and cultural
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian The antler ornament headdress is importance central to the Wiyot for the
organization not identified in this notice constructed of leather, suede, and seven proper performance of World Renewal
that wish to claim these cultural items carved antler ornaments; red and black Ceremonies, specifically the White
should submit a written request to the paints were applied to sections of the Deerskin Dance and the Jump Dance,
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and could not have been alienated or traditional religious ceremonies and Tribe) that this notice has been
conveyed by an individual. dances, such as the Flower Ceremony, published.
In 1910, Grace Nicholson and Carroll the World Renewal Ceremony, and the Dated: April 30, 2018.
Hartman purchased a woman’s dance Brush Dance, by present-day adherents. Melanie O’Brien,
skirt on behalf of Lewis Hobart Farlow, Wiyot women and girls wore dance
in whose name it was donated to the Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
skirts for multiple ceremonies because
Peabody Museum that same year. Prior the skirts were imbued with spiritual [FR Doc. 2018–10781 Filed 5–18–18; 8:45 am]
to its purchase by Nicholson and power and were potent enough to BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
Hartman, the dance skirt was owned by ritually purify ceremonial dance
Isaac A. Beers, the United States Indian grounds.
Agent at Hoopa from 1890–1893. The DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
circumstance under which Beers Determinations Made by the Peabody
Museum National Park Service
collected the dance skirt is not known.
Peabody Museum records describe the Officials of the Peabody Museum have
determined that: [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025515;
object as ‘‘Wiegat—Very old fine Dance
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Skirt—Beer’s Collection’’ and from the
‘‘Wiyot Indians, California.’’ The the four cultural items described above Notice of Inventory Completion:
woman’s dance skirt has been identified are specific ceremonial objects needed Florida Department of State, Division
as Wiyot and has been determined to be by traditional Native American religious of Historical Resources, Tallahassee,
a sacred object. leaders for the practice of traditional FL
This dance skirt is made of soft, Native American religions by their
tanned leather, which is fringed at the present-day adherents. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
bottom hem. A solitary shell object of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), ACTION: Notice.
modified abalone is fastened to a leather the three cultural items described above
strand within the fringe. Another leather have ongoing historical, traditional, or SUMMARY: The Florida Department of
strand within the fringe is adorned with cultural importance central to the State, Division of Historical Resources,
three blue glass beads and one long Native American group or culture itself, has completed an inventory of human
black glass bead. The waist of the skirt rather than property owned by an remains and associated funerary objects,
is decorated with maidenhair fern and individual. in consultation with the appropriate
beargrass wraps, as well as iris twine. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
Dangling from the edge of the twine- is a relationship of shared group organizations, and has determined that
wrapped waist are thin twine-wrapped identity that can be reasonably traced there is a cultural affiliation between the
strands adorned with two small bivalve between the sacred objects and objects human remains and associated funerary
shells and finished with metal thimbles; of cultural patrimony and the Bear River object and present-day Indian Tribes or
some strands also contain blue glass Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
beads. California; Blue Lake Rancheria, descendants or representatives of any
Consultation evidence suggests this California; and Wiyot Tribe, California Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
skirt was most likely made as regalia for (previously listed as the Table Bluff organization not identified in this notice
an adolescent girl’s Coming of Age Reservation—Wiyot Tribe). that wish to request transfer of control
Ceremony, also known as the Flower of these human remains and associated
Ceremony, due to its size and Additional Requestors and Disposition
funerary object should submit a written
decoration. Families spent years Lineal descendants or representatives request to the Florida Department of
gathering the materials for a girl’s ‘‘First of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian State, Division of Historical Resources.
Dress,’’ which was worn initially at her organization not identified in this notice If no additional requestors come
Coming of Age Ceremony. Based on the that wish to claim these cultural items forward, transfer of control of the
size of this skirt, and the effort invested should submit a written request with human remains and associated funerary
in its ornamentation, as well as the information in support of the claim to object to the lineal descendants, Indian
location of decoration at the waist, it Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Tribes, or Native Hawaiian
was likely made as a ceremonial dance Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard organizations stated in this notice may
skirt for a girl’s puberty rites. As abalone University, 11 Divinity Avenue, proceed.
is associated with women’s blood, the Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
DATES: Lineal descendants or
single cut and polished abalone shell 496–3702, email pcapone@
representatives of any Indian Tribe or
bead fastened within the fringe at the fas.harvard.edu, by June 20, 2018. After
Native Hawaiian organization not
skirt’s bottom hem further supports the that date, if no additional claimants
identified in this notice that wish to
attribution of this skirt to the Coming of have come forward, transfer of control
request transfer of control of these
Age Ceremony. Museum documentation of the sacred objects and objects of
human remains and associated funerary
of the item as a ‘‘Very old fine Dance cultural patrimony to the Bear River
object should submit a written request
Skirt’’ supports the categorization of this Band of Rohnerville Rancheria,
with information in support of the
skirt as a specific ceremonial item. California; Blue Lake Rancheria,
request to the Florida Department of
According to consultation evidence and California; and Wiyot Tribe, California
State, Division of Historical Resources at
other supporting evidence this dance (previously listed as the Table Bluff
the address in this notice by June 20,
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skirt would be used for multiple Reservation—Wiyot Tribe) may proceed.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology 2018.
religious ceremonies, possibly including
the Flower Ceremony, Jump Dance, and and Ethnology is responsible for ADDRESSES: Kathryn Miyar, Florida
Brush Dance. notifying the Bear River Band of Department of State, Mission San Luis
This cultural item meets the Rohnerville Rancheria, California; Blue Collections, 2100 West Tennessee
definition of a sacred object because it Lake Rancheria, California; and Wiyot Street, Tallahassee, FL 32304, telephone
is a specific ceremonial object required Tribe, California (previously listed as (850) 245–6301, email kathryn.miyar@
by the Wiyot for the practice of the Table Bluff Reservation—Wiyot dos.myflorida.com.
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