Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 50 / Tuesday, March 15, 2011 / Notices 14047 

Dated: March 9, 2011. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5859 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 in the 

possession of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA, that meet 

the definition of unassociated funerary 

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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

At an unknown date, an iron fish 

spear, a string of bird bone ornaments, 

and a segment of bird bone were 

removed from an Indian grave in 

Ontonagon, Ontonagon County, MI, by 

an unknown individual. The string of 

bird bone ornaments was donated to the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology by Mary S. Felton and Dr. 

Joseph Leidy in 1868. The iron fish 

spear and segment of bird bone were 

donated to the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology by Mary 

Felton in 1868. 

At an unknown date, a string of glass 

beads and a mirror were removed from 

Indian graves in Ontonagon, Ontonagon 

County, MI, by an unknown individual. 

These items were donated by Mary S. 

Felton to the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology in 1868. 

At an unknown date, a silver trade 

cross was removed from an Indian grave 

in Ontonagon, Ontonagon County, MI, 

by an unknown individual. Mary S. 

Felton donated this item to the Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 

in 1869. 

Museum records indicate that these 

cultural items were removed from 

Indian graves in Ontonagon, Ontonagon 

County, MI. The Peabody Museum is 

not in possession or control of the 

human remains from these interments. 

The presence of trade items, such as the 

iron fish spear, mirror, glass beads, and 

silver trade cross, indicates that these 

interments date to the Historic/Contact 

period, specifically the late 18th and 

19th centuries. Historical 

documentation indicates that the 

Ontonagon area was occupied by the 

Ontonagon Band of Chippewa people 

during this time period. The present-day 

tribe that represents the Ontonagon 

Band of Chippewa is the Keweenaw Bay 

Indian Community, Michigan. 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology have 

determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(3)(B), that the six cultural items 

described 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 and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of Native American individuals. 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology also have 

determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(2), that there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the 

unassociated funerary objects and the 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, 

Michigan. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Patricia Capone, 

Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, before April 14, 2011. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the Keweenaw Bay 

Indian Community, Michigan, may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

and Ethnology is responsible for 

notifying the Bad River Band of the Lake 

Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of 

the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; 

Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake) of the 

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; 

Fond du Lac Band of the Minnesota 

Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Grand 

Portage Band of the Minnesota 

Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Keweenaw 

Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac 

Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac 

Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Leech 

Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa 

Tribe, Minnesota; Mille Lacs Band of 

the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, 

Minnesota; Red Cliff Band of Lake 

Superior Chippewa Indians of 

Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians 

of Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa 

Community, Wisconsin; and the White 

Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa 

Tribe, Minnesota, that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: March 9, 2011. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5870 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: California Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento, 

CA and California State University, 

Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 in the 

control of the California Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento, 

CA, and in the possession of the 

California State University, Sacramento, 

CA, that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary 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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

In 1970, unassociated funerary objects 

were removed from CA–SJO–91 on 

private property, in San Joaquin County, 

CA, during a salvage excavation project. 

Faculty and students from what was 

then Sacramento State College (now 

California State University, Sacramento) 

were brought in by the California 

Division of Highways (now California 

Department of Transportation 

[Caltrans]) to conduct salvage 

excavations. The location of the 

associated human remains is unknown, 


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