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FR Doc 05-6467
[Federal Register: April 1, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 62)]
[Notices]
[Page 16841-16842]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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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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 an associated funerary object in the
possession of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips
Academy, Andover, MA. The associated funerary object was removed from
McCurtain County, OK.
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 object. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the associated funerary object was made by
Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
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Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes
(Wichita, Keechi, Waco and Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
In 1913, a Hudson Engraved ceramic vessel was collected from a site
whose locality is described as ``Sec 7 TP6S, R23E'' in McCurtain
County, OK, by E.S. Byington. Mr Byington was temporarily employed by
W.K. Moorehead of the Robert S. Peabody Museum. Museum records indicate
that human remains and the ceramic vessel were collected by Mr.
Byington for the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, although the
excavator is identified as T.H. Rogers. Both men were employees of the
Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad Company. In 1963, the Robert S.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology donated the human remains to the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. The human
remains associated with the funerary object are in the custody of the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and
were described in a notice of inventory completion published in the
Federal Register on August 16, 2000 (FR Doc. 00-20823).
Based on geographical, historic, and archeological evidence, the
associated funerary object is culturally affiliated with the Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma. Hudson Engraved ceramics are related to the
McCurtain phase (A.D.1450-1600), and historic evidence indicates
that Hudson Engraved ceramics were produced by Caddoan peoples circa
A.D. 1500-1730. Although the exact site from which the human
remains and the associated funerary object were removed is not known,
the site is located in the historic territory of the Caddo tribe; other
sites in the area have produced Hudson Engraved or closely related
vessels, some of which have been found in association with European
trade items.
Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the one object
described above is 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. Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of
Archaeology also have determined that, 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 object and the
Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the associated funerary object should
contact Malinda Blustain, Director, Robert S. Peabody Museum of
Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978)
749-4490, before May 2, 2005. Repatriation of the associated
funerary object to the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology is responsible for
notifying the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and the Wichita and Affiliated
Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco and Tawakonie), Oklahoma that this notice
has been published.
Dated: February 2, 2005.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 05-6467 Filed 3-31-05; 8:45 am]
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