[Federal Register: January 26, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 18)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the Milwaukee
Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9,
of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects in the possession of the Milwaukee Public Museum,
Milwaukee, WI.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of these Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations within this
notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Milwaukee
Public Museum professional staff and contract specialists in physical
anthropology, in consultation with representatives of the Lac du
Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Indians.
    In 1902, human remains representing two individuals and associated
funerary objects were removed during excavation of a mound burial on
Fox Island, Rest Lake (47-VI-7), Manitowosh Waters Township, Vilas
County, WI, by James G. Albright. The human remains and some (an
unknown number) of the associated funerary objects were sold to the
Wisconsin Natural History Society in 1902. The Wisconsin Natural
History Society donated the remains and associated funerary objects to
the Milwaukee Public Museum the same year. Mr. Albright donated the
remaining associated funerary objects to the Milwaukee Public Museum in
1942. No known individuals were identified. The 20 associated funerary
objects are a German silver brooch with engraved geometric designs, a
broken porcelain saucer, fragments of a metal bucket that originally
contained a granulated substance (maple sugar?), half of a tin cup,
birch bark wrappings, metal fragments, glass beads, shell, wood
fragments, wool cloth fragments, a horn knife handle, a pocket mirror,
two German silver bracelets with a piece of silk ribbon, fragments of a
metal necklace with imitation gems, spectacle glass with copper frame,
an iron axe head, a knife with wood handle, a hatchet head, and a
limestone Micmac-style pipe.
    The associated funerary objects from this site can be stylistically
dated to circa A.D. 1770-1875.
    Based on cranial morphology, dental traits, archeological context,
and associated funerary objects, these individuals are determined to be
Native American. The geographical location of the site and date of the
burial is consistent with the historic territory of the Lac du Flambeau
Band of Lake Superior Indians and very near the modern-day Lac du
Flambeau Reservation. Consultation evidence provided by representatives
of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Indians has identified
Site 47-VI-7 as part of the area from which the Lac Du Flambeau Band
was drawn following the creation of their reservation in the mid-19th
century.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the
Milwaukee Public Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2
(d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical remains
of two individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the
Milwaukee Public Museum also have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR
10.2 (d)(2), the 20 objects listed above 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. Lastly, officials
of the Milwaukee Public Museum have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR
10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between these Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects and the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Lac du Flambeau Band
of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these human
remains and associated funerary objects should contact Dr. Alex Barker,
Anthropology Section Head, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 West Wells
Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233, telephone (414) 278-2786, before February
26, 2001. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
may begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: January 22, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources, Stewardship, and Partnerships.
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