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Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa 

Indians, Michigan; Shawnee Tribe; and 

the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after March 27, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the NIU Department of Anthropology 

must determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The NIU 

Department of Anthropology is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 16, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03799 Filed 2–23–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037443; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois 

State Museum, Springfield, IL 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Illinois 

State Museum has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from the Dickson 

Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), Dickson 

Camp site (11F10/11Fv35), and a 

Middle Woodland mound site (11F10/ 

11Fo36), in Fulton County, IL. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Brooke M. Morgan, Illinois 

State Museum Research & Collections 

Center, 1011 East Ash Street, 

Springfield, IL 62703, telephone (217) 

785–8930, email brooke.morgan@

illinois.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Illinois State 

Museum. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. Additional information 

on the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by the Illinois State 

Museum. 

Description 

Between 1927 and 1929, Dr. Don F. 

Dickson exposed and left in situ human 

remains representing, at minimum, 286 

individuals in Mounds 10(I) and 2(E) at 

the Dickson Mounds site (11F10/ 

11Fo34), Fulton County, IL. These 

burials date to the Spoon River focus of 

the Mississippian period (ca. A.D. 1150– 

1300). Associated funerary objects were 

often left with their burial of origin, but 

some were removed and placed with a 

different burial or displayed in what 

would become the Museum. The in situ 

former burial exhibit was known as the 

‘‘Dickson Excavation’’ and was on 

display from 1927 until its closure in 

1992. Dickson Mounds State Park was 

transferred from the Department of 

Conservation to the Illinois State 

Museum in 1965, which is when the 

‘‘Dickson Excavation’’ was accessioned 

into the Museum’s collection. In 1993, 

human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from this same location prior to the 

entombment of the former Dickson 

Mounds burial exhibit by the Illinois 

State Museum. 

The 773 associated funerary objects 

are nine antler flakers, two polished 

antler rings, 274 shell beads, one 

fluorspar bead, four bone bracelets, one 

bone weaving tool, two fishhook blanks, 

three bone fishhooks, one bone awl, 

three bone pins, seven chipped stone 

drills, two chert hoes, 49 chert flakes, 20 

flake knives, 24 triangular projectile 

points, 45 chipped stone scrapers, one 

galena cube, one groundstone celt, one 

flotation sample, five sandstone 

abraders, five unmodified deer 

phalanges, one ceramic trowel, 17 bone 

needles, 10 shell pendants, one 

groundstone pipe, 65 ceramic vessels, 

three lots of ceramic sherds, 45 shell 

rattles or clackers, three shell hoes, 26 

shell spoons, 11 unmodified mussel 

shells, 123 terrestrial snail shells, two 

lots of burial fill, and six unmodified 

stones. 

Between 1966 and 1968, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 830 

individuals were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, when the Illinois 

State Museum performed salvage 

excavations prior to construction of the 

current building, which opened to the 

public in 1972. These 830 individuals 

were removed from four precontact 

cemeteries and 11 mounds constructed 

during the Late Woodland and 

Mississippian periods and are 

comprised of 136 individuals dating to 

the Late Woodland period (A.D. 700– 

1100), 440 individuals dating to the 

Mississippian period (A.D. 1150–1300), 

and 254 individuals dating to an 

undetermined precontact archeological 

period. Precontact period individuals 

for which time period was unable to be 

determined were generally removed 

from indeterminate mounds or from the 

disturbed upper levels of the mounds 

that were subject to extensive looting 

prior to the 1927 Dickson excavation. 

Archeologists determined these human 

remains had been historically 

disassociated from their original 

positions within the mounds and, as a 

result, were often commingled and 

unable to be separated by individual. 

The 2,024 associated funerary objects 

belonging to the Late Woodland period 

individuals are two antler flakers, one 

antler hairpin, 1,678 shell beads, 11 lots 

of faunal remains, one bone pin, one 

bone fishhook, 18 chert flakes, three 

flake knives, 18 projectile points, 12 

chipped stone scrapers, one sandstone 

file, one discoidal, one grinding stone, 

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charcoal, one lot of burned clay, 77 lots 

of burial fill, 24 flotation samples, three 

pieces of hematite, two puma canine ear 

pendants, five shell pendants, 47 

ceramic vessels, 47 lots of ceramic 

sherds, four shell rattles or clackers, 42 

shell spoons, 10 unmodified mussel 

shells, and four unmodified stones. 

The 3,646 associated funerary objects 

belonging to the Mississippian period 

individuals are seven antler flakers, two 

antler hair rings, 2,689 shell beads, two 

beaver incisor chisels, one bird wing 

fan, two bone bipointed objects, five 

bone bracelets, one bone comb, two cut 

bird bones, 15 lots of faunal remains, 

eight bone scarifier needles, nine bone 

awls, 13 bone pins, one biface fragment, 

one chert drill, three chert gravers, 122 

chert flakes, 10 flake knives, 57 

projectile points, 32 chipped stone 

scrapers, two sandstone abraders, two 

groundstone celts, one discoidal, three 

grinding stones, two groundstone paint 

palettes, four polishing stones, one 

hematite plummet, four copper ear 

spools, one copper gorget, one galena 

cube bead, one lot of sand tempering 

material, seven lots of charcoal, two lots 

of burned clay, 115 lots of burial fill, 25 

flotation samples, two lots of preserved 

woven fabric, three pieces of hematite, 

183 quartz pebbles from rattles, one 

sandstone elbow pipe, two puma canine 

ear pendants, 16 shell pendants, 58 

ceramic vessels, 92 lots of ceramic 

sherds, four ceramic trowels, 58 shell 

rattles, one worked marine shell, 49 

shell spoons, 22 lots of unmodified 

mussel shells, and two unmodified 

stones. 

The 681 associated funerary objects 

belonging to the Precontact period 

individuals are 571 shell beads, two elk 

astragali, four lots of faunal remains, 

one modified bird bone, one turtle 

carapace plaque, one chert biface, 14 

chert flakes, two flake knives, three 

projectile points, three chert scrapers, 

one groundstone anvil, one lot of 

charcoal, 25 lots of burial fill, two 

flotation samples, 10 shell pendants, 

three ceramic vessels, 20 lots of ceramic 

sherds, two mussel shell hoes, 11 shell 

spoons, and four lots of unmodified 

mussel shell. 

The 2,046 associated funerary objects 

belonging to multiple individuals or 

mounds are two worked antler artifacts, 

63 shell beads, two beaver incisors, 

three bone bracelets, one bone hair ring, 

two bone shuttles, 16 lots of faunal 

remains, three turtle carapace fragments, 

11 bone pins or awls, 18 chert bifaces, 

220 chert flakes, three flake knives, 36 

projectile points, 47 chert scrapers, five 

sandstone abraders, three groundstone 

celts, two galena cubes, 21 lots of burial 

fill, 28 lots of charcoal, 26 lots of soil, 

four soil core samples, seven flotation 

samples, 18 shell pendants, four lots of 

hematite, 618 lots of ceramic sherds, 31 

ceramic vessels, five worked shells, 49 

shell spoons, 248 lots of unmodified 

shell, and 550 lots of unmodified stone. 

Prior to 1967, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 143 

individuals were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, by Dr. Don F. 

Dickson or his colleagues. These were 

used primarily for exhibits at the 

Dickson Mounds Museum between 

1945–1978 and were known as the 

Dickson Osteology Collection. The 

human remains were purchased by the 

Illinois State Museum in 1967 as the 

Dickson Pathology Collection. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Prior to 1985, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 14 

individuals were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, by a private collector. 

The human remains were donated to the 

Illinois State Museum in 1985 as part of 

the Dan Morse Pathology Collection. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Prior to 1923, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, by an unknown 

person, and recovered by the Riverside 

County (California) Sheriff’s Department 

in 1985. The remains were transferred to 

the Illinois State Museum in 1986. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Prior to 1954, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, by Dr. Don F. 

Dickson and given to a private citizen. 

The remains were donated to the Illinois 

State Museum in 1991. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Prior to the 1930s, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, by Dr. Don F. 

Dickson and given to a private citizen. 

The remains were donated to the Illinois 

State Museum in 2004. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

In 1967, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed from the Dickson Mounds site 

(11F10/11Fo34), Fulton County, IL, by 

Marion Dickson and given to a person 

working on the Dickson Mounds 

excavation team. The remains were 

donated to the Illinois State Museum in 

2016 by a private citizen. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Prior to 1968, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 10 

individuals were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, by an unknown 

person and later donated to the Florida 

State University Department of 

Anthropology. Circumstances 

surrounding the recovery and donation 

are unknown. The remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

transferred to the Illinois State Museum 

in 2022. The 18 associated funerary 

objects include three mussel shell 

fragments, one terrestrial gastropod 

shell, two groundstone tools, four rocks, 

one projectile point tip fragment, three 

chert flakes, two pieces of burned 

botanical material, one bone awl, and 

one lot of unidentified faunal bone. 

Prior to the 1980s, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 15 

individuals were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, and later donated to 

the Iowa Office of the State 

Archaeologist by a private citizen. The 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were transferred to the Illinois State 

Museum in 2022. The 21 associated 

funerary objects include four mussel 

shell fragments, one chert flake, and 16 

limestone fragments. 

In 1931, human remains representing, 

at minimum, four individuals were 

removed from the Dickson Mounds site 

(11F10/11Fo34), Fulton County, IL, by 

Dr. Don F. Dickson and donated to the 

Field Museum of Natural History in 

Chicago. The remains and associated 

funerary objects were transferred to the 

Illinois State Museum in 2023. The 22 

associated funerary objects include six 

chert flakes, one groundstone abrader, 

two mussel shell spoons, one marine 

shell pendant, one marine shell pendant 

or bead, two chert knives, four projectile 

points, one shell tempered ceramic 

beaker with a handle, one shell 

tempered undecorated ceramic jar with 

loop handles, one shell tempered 

undecorated ceramic water bottle, one 

shell tempered decorated ceramic jar, 

and one groundstone celt. 

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 13 

individuals were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, and donated or 

otherwise acquired by the Illinois State 

Museum on an unknown date. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Prior to 1945, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from the 

Dickson Mounds site (11F10/11Fo34), 

Fulton County, IL, and given to a private 

citizen. The remains were donated to 

the Illinois State Museum in 2002. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 


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In 1965, human remains representing, 

at minimum, two individuals were 

removed from the Dickson Camp site 

(11F10/11Fv35), Fulton County, IL, 

during professional excavation by the 

Illinois State Museum. The Dickson 

Camp site dates to the Early Havana 

Tradition or Early Middle Woodland 

period (150–50 BC). The 24 associated 

funerary objects include one 

unmodified rock, 13 pieces of chert 

debitage, one piece of sandstone, one 

lamellar flake blade of Cobden-Dongola 

chert, three fire-cracked rocks, one piece 

of ochre, one drumfish tooth, one 

mussel shell, one cordmarked ceramic 

vessel, and one mussel shell spoon. 

In 1966, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed from the Dickson Camp site 

(11F10/11Fv35), Fulton County, IL, 

during salvage excavation by the Illinois 

State Museum. The 11 associated 

funerary objects include one projectile 

point, four chert flakes, and six ceramic 

sherds. 

In 1961, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed from a Middle Woodland 

(Hopewell) mound (11F10/11Fo36), 

Fulton County, IL, by the Illinois State 

Museum. In 1981, associated funerary 

objects from this mound collected on an 

unknown date were transferred from the 

Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist to 

the Illinois State Museum. The mound 

dates between 50 BC–A.D. 400. The 81 

associated funerary objects include 31 

lots of chert flakes, one lot of chert, one 

lot of clay pieces, one grinding stone, 

one grooved sandstone abrader, one 

hammerstone, 12 lots of ceramic sherds, 

two projectile points, 13 lots of rock, 

eight lots of soil, six lots of shell, one 

ash sample, one bark sample, and two 

sets of bark impressions in sediment 

matrix. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, biological, geographical, 

linguistic, and oral tradition 

information. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Illinois State Museum 

has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 1,325 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 9,347 objects described in this 

notice 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Forest County 

Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; 

Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa 

Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Match-ebe-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 

Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of 

the Potawatomi, Michigan; OtoeMissouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; 

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 

Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band 

Potawatomi Nation; The Osage Nation; 

and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after March 27, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Illinois State Museum must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Illinois State 

Museum is responsible for sending a 

copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 

and Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 16, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037458; 

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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) 

intends to repatriate certain cultural 

items that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects that have 

a cultural affiliation with the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

in this notice. The cultural items were 

removed from Cross County, AR. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, email pcapone@

fas.harvard.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the PMAE. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

The 531 cultural items were removed 

from Cross County, Arkansas between 

1879 and 1880 as part of Peabody 


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