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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17551; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology has completed 

an inventory of human remains, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and present-day Indian 

tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 

Lineal descendants or representatives of 

any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request to the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology. If no 

additional requestors come forward, 

transfer of control of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects to the 

lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or 

Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 

this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology at the address 

in this notice by March 30, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, 

Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 

749–4490, email rwheeler@andover.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 

Andover, MA. The human remains were 

removed from Betheia Farm-Touisett 

Point #2 site in Warren, Bristol County, 

Rhode Island. 

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 human remains and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Wampanoag 

Repatriation Confederacy, representing 

the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe 

(previously listed as the Mashpee 

Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, 

Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head 

(Aquinnah), and the Assonet Band of 

the Wampanoag Nation (a non-federally 

recognized Indian group). 

History and Description of the Remains 

Maurice Robbins removed human 

remains representing, at minimum, one 

individual from the Betheia FarmTouisett Point #2 site in Warren, Bristol 

County, RI, which were transferred to 

the Phillips Academy Department of 

Archaeology (now the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology) 

(Peabody Accn. 46/6437) in 1938. The 

human remains are cranial fragments, a 

humerus, and a femur. The individual is 

a female juvenile or subadult, aged 

approximately 10 to 11 years old at time 

of death. No known individuals were 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. Cranial anatomy and 

teeth are consistent with Native 

American ancestry; physical 

anthropologist Michael Gibbons, in 

preparing an inventory of the remains, 

indicates that the individual died 

approximately 400+ years ago. 

Information about the Betheia FarmTouisett Point #2 site is found in the 

files of the Robert S. Peabody Museum 

of Archaeology and the files of the 

Rhode Island Historical Preservation & 

Heritage Commission (site numbers 

1349 and 1350). Records at the former 

institution indicate that human remains 

washed out of the site during a storm 

and were collected by Robbins. The 

storm event may have been the ‘‘Great 

Hurricane’’ of September 1938, though a 

sketch map on file indicates erosion was 

already occurring in 1937. The site is 

described as a high sandy bluff facing 

Mount Hope Bay sitting on a very 

abrupt slope approximately 25 feet back 

from the beach. Robbins noted other 

artifacts from the site including points, 

hammerstones, fragmentary pestle, 

steatite bowl, and pottery fragments. 

Additional information may be available 

at the Robbins Museum of Archaeology/ 

Massachusetts Archaeological Society in 

Middleborough, MA (MAS site #M–43/ 

35), though no information was 

available during the preparation of this 

notice. Frank Speck (see his 1928 

monograph ‘‘Territorial Subdivisions 

and Boundaries of the Wampanoag, 

Massachusett, and Nauset Indians,’’ 

Indian Notes and Monographs No. 44) 

places the area around Touisett Point 

within the traditional territory of the 

Wampanoag. There seems to be general 

agreement among scholars that this area 

was within the territory of the 

Wampanoag (for example, see Bert 

Salwen’s entry ‘‘Indians of Southern 

New England and Long Island: Early 

Period’’ and William S. Simmons entry 

‘‘Narragansett,’’ both appearing in the 

1978 Handbook of North American 

Indians: Northeast, edited by Bruce G. 

Trigger, and Robert S. Grumet’s 1995 

book ‘‘Historic Contact: Indian Peoples 

and Colonists in Today’s Northeastern 

United States in the Sixteenth through 

Eighteenth Centuries,’’ pages 117–121, 

129–133). Linguistically this area is 

within the so-called n-dialect shared by 

Massachusett, Wampanoag, and 

Pokanoket speakers (see map and 

discussion in Kathleen J. Bragdon’s 

2009 book ‘‘Native Peoples of Southern 

New England, 1650–1775, pages 22–23). 

Mount Hope, located near Touisett 

Point in Bristol, Rhode Island, is 

identified as the home of Wampanoag 

leaders Massasoit and his son 

Metacomet (also known as King Philip). 

Conflict with English colonists over 

encroachment into traditional lands and 

attempts to restrict Native people to 

small reservations ignited Metacomet’s 

rebellion or King Philip’s War (1675– 

1676) when the Wampanoag were 

unwilling or unable to relinquish their 

lands. Sociopolitical and economic 

patterns in the coastal area of Rhode 

Island and Massachusetts were 

established by the late Woodland period 

circa AD 1000 and the coastal groups in 

this area are likely the ancestors of the 

Wampanoag people encountered by the 

English in the seventeenth century (for 

example, see discussion in Bragdon 

[2009:35–36]). Archaeology, 

ethnohistory, linguistics, and oral 

history provide multiple lines of 

evidence that demonstrate longstanding 

ties between the Wampanoag and the 

area around Touisett Point and affirm 

affiliation with the burial at the Betheia 

Farm-Touisett Point #2 site. 

Determinations Made by the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

Officials of the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology have 

determined that: 


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• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

• 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 human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and the Wampanoag Repatriation 

Confederacy, representing the Mashpee 

Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as 

the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal 

Council, Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of 

Gay Head (Aquinnah), and, if joined, the 

Assonet Band of the Wampanoag 

Nation, a non-federally recognized 

Indian group). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 180 

Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, 

telephone (978) 749–4490, email 

rwheeler@andover.edu, by March 30, 

2015. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the 

Wampanoag Repatriation Confederacy, 

representing the Mashpee Wampanoag 

Tribe (previously listed as the Mashpee 

Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, 

Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head 

(Aquinnah), and, if joined, the Assonet 

Band of the Wampanoag Nation, a nonfederally recognized Indian group, may 

proceed. 

The Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology is responsible for notifying 

the Wampanoag Repatriation 

Confederacy, representing the Mashpee 

Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as 

the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal 

Council, Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of 

Gay Head (Aquinnah), and the Assonet 

Band of the Wampanoag Nation, a nonfederally recognized Indian group, that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: January 23, 2015. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04045 Filed 2–25–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17550; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology has completed 

an inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects and present-day Indian tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request to the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology. If no 

additional requestors come forward, 

transfer of control of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects to the 

lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or 

Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 

this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology at the address 

in this notice by March 30, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, 

Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 

749–4490, email rwheeler@andover.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 

Andover, MA. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from ten sites in Massachusetts 

described here according to site 

location, county, and town, when 

available. 

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 human remains and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

was made by the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Wampanoag 

Repatriation Confederacy, representing 

the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head 

(Aquinnah), Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe 

(previously listed as the Mashpee 

Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, 

Inc.), and the Assonet Band of the 

Wampanoag Nation (a non-federally 

recognized Indian group). Inventories of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects from Wakefield, Georgetown, 

Shattuck Farm, Lowell Textile School, 

Poznick, Call, and Indian Rock sites 

were shared with the Abenaki Nation of 

New Hampshire (a non-federally 

recognized Indian group) and the 

Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi St. 

Francis/Sokoki Band (a non-federally 

recognized Indian group) in 1999, but 

consultation was not conducted with 

these groups. 

History and Description of the Remains 

Cape Cod-Southeastern Massachusetts 

South Dennis 

William W. Taylor removed human 

remains representing, at minimum, one 

individual at an unknown site in South 

Dennis, Barnstable County, MA, which 

were acquired by the Phillips Academy 

Department of Archaeology (now the 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology) in 1913 (Peabody Accn. 

54612). The human remains are one 

sternum fragment. The individual is a 

female juvenile to subadult. No known 

individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

No documentation exists for this site, 

other than the entries for the human 

remains in the museum catalog. Records 

indicate that two other lots of artifacts 

were accessioned from the same site, 

also acquired from William W. Taylor, 

including broken stone implements; 

most of these stone implements were 

deaccessioned, though one rough 

preform (Peabody Accn. 54613) is still 

at the museum. The presence of stone 

implements at the site corroborates the 


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