[Federal Register: February 20, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 34)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Possession
of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to
repatriate a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, that meets the definition of
``unassociated funerary object'' under Section 2 of the Act.
    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 this
cultural item. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations within this notice.
    The one cultural item is a buffalo horn spoon.
    In 1880, the cultural item was collected in Montana by Ernest T.
Jackson. In 1946, Patrick T. Jackson donated this cultural item to the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
    Museum records indicate that this cultural item was removed from a
Crow grave in Montana. The specific cultural affiliation indicates that
the collector was aware of the cultural affiliation of the burial, and
suggests that it dates to historic times. Based on the specific
cultural attribution in museum records, the probable 19th-century date
of the burial, and the geographical location of origin within the
historical territory of the Crow Tribe of Montana, this cultural item
is considered to be affiliated with the Crow Tribe of Montana.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have determined that, pursuant to
43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), this cultural item 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 and is believed,
by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a
specific burial site of a Native American individual. Officials of the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology also have determined that,
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced between this cultural item and
the Crow Tribe of Montana.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Crow Tribe of
Montana. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself
to be culturally affiliated with this unassociated funerary object
should contact Barbara Isaac, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 495-2254, before March 22, 2001.
Repatriation of this unassociated funerary object to the Crow Tribe of
Montana may begin after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.

    Dated: January 30, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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