Notice of Completion of Inventory of Native American
Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the
Possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Cambridge, MA.
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d), of the completion of an inventory
of human remains and associated funerary objects in the
possession of the Peabody Museum from one site near Fort
Robinson, NE.
The detailed inventory and assessment of these human
remains and associated funerary objects has been made by
the Collections Managers and Curatorial Associates of the
Peabody Museum in consultation with representatives of
the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Lame Deer, MT.
Museum records indicate that the collection was retrieved
from a sinkhole in the vicinity of Fort Robinson,
Nebraska, in 1879, about one year after Dull Knife's Band
was attacked while leaving the fort. The collections was
deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at
Harvard University and transferred to the Peabody Museum
in 1880 or 1881. The human remains consist of five
skulls and one femur (80-25/23076, 23077, 23078, 23079,
23080, and 24855). Associated funerary objects consist
of a small leather knife sheath, a fragment of textile,
and several buttons (80-25/23082, 23083, and 23084). The
location and date of collection, as reported in the
Museum catalogue, and the evidence of violent death
exhibited by the human remains support the identification
of these human remains and associated funerary objects as
being culturally affiliated with the Northern Cheyenne
tribe.
Individual or representatives of any other Indian tribe
that believe they may be affiliated with these human
remains and associated funerary objects are advised that
they are being transferred to representatives of the
Northern Cheyenne, Lame Deer, MT, who have agreed to
delay reinterment until November 4, 1993. The human
remains and associated funerary objects may be reinterred
at that time if no other claims of cultural affiliation
are received. This notice has also been sent to
representatives of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes,
Concho, OK.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe which believes
itself to be descended from the individuals described
above should contact David Pilbeam, Peabody Museum, 11
Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone: (617)
495-2248, and Steven C. Brady, Sr., Box 542, Lame Deer,
MT 59043, telephone: (406) 477-6210.
Dated: September 21, 1993
Veletta Canouts
Acting, Departmental Consulting Archeologist
Chief, Archeological Assistance Division
[FR/Vol. 58, No 191/Tuesday October 5, 1993/Page 51845]
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