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individuals of Native American 

ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the 100 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. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

cannot be reasonably traced between the 

Native American human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

present-day Indian Tribe. 

• Treaties, Acts of Congress, or 

Executive Orders, indicate that the land 

from which the Native American human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed is the aboriginal land of 

the Seneca Nation of Indians 

[previously listed as Seneca Nation of 

New York]. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the 

disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects may be to 

the Seneca Nation of Indians 

[previously listed as Seneca Nation of 

New York]. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

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 Douglas J. Perrelli, Ph.D., 

RPA, University at Buffalo Department 

of Anthropology, 380 Academic Center, 

Ellicott Complex, Buffalo NY 14261– 

0026, telephone (716) 645–2297, email 

perrelli@buffalo.edu, by February 9, 

2022. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the 

Seneca Nation of Indians [previously 

listed as Seneca Nation of New York] 

may proceed. 

The State University at Buffalo, 

Department of Anthropology is 

responsible for notifying the Seneca 

Nation of Indians [previously listed as 

Seneca Nation of New York] that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: January 3, 2022. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0033206; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler 

Museum at the University of California 

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the 

University of California Los Angeles 

(Fowler Museum at UCLA) has 

corrected an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects, 

published in a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register on 

July 19, 2021. This notice corrects the 

number of associated funerary objects. 

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 Fowler Museum at UCLA. 

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 Fowler Museum at UCLA 

at the address in this notice by February 

9, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wendy G Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum 

at UCLA, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 

90095–1549, telephone (310) 825–1864, 

email wteeter@arts.ucla.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 correction of an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

Fowler Museum at the University of 

California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 

CA. The human remains and associated 

funerary objects were removed from San 

Luis Obispo County, CA. 

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. 

This notice corrects the number of 

associated funerary objects published in 

a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register (86 FR 38118–38120, 

July 19, 2021). On October 7, 2021, the 

Fowler Museum at UCLA transferred 

human remains from site SLO–157 to 

the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash 

Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez 

Reservation, California. Following 

repatriation, additional associated 

funerary objects were discovered. 

Transfer of control of the items in this 

correction notice has not occurred. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of July 19, 

2021, in FR Doc 2021–15252, on page 

38119, in the first column, second 

paragraph, correct the 12th sentence to 

read: 

Accession 290 includes five associated 

funerary objects that are two flakes, one core, 

and two scrapers. 

In the Federal Register of July 19, 

2021, in FR Doc 2021–15252, on page 

38119, in the third column, first 

paragraph, correct sentence 2 under the 

heading ‘‘Determinations Made by the 

Fowler Museum at the University of 

California Los Angeles,’’ to read: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 83 

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. 

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 Wendy G Teeter, Ph.D., 

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, 

Los Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone 

(310) 825–1864, email wteeter@

arts.ucla.edu, by February 9, 2022. After 

that date, if no additional requestors 

have come forward, transfer of control 

of the human remains and associated 

funerary objects to the Santa Ynez Band 

of Chumash Mission Indians of the 

Santa Ynez Reservation, California may 

proceed. 

The Fowler Museum at the University 

of California Los Angeles is responsible 

for notifying the Indian Tribes and 


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Groups referred to in the July 19, 2021 

notice as ‘‘The Consulted Tribes and 

Groups’’ that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: January 3, 2022. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, 

MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Berkshire Museum, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, has determined that the 

cultural items listed in this notice meet 

the definition of objects of cultural 

patrimony. Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request to the 

Berkshire Museum. If no additional 

claimants come forward, transfer of 

control of the cultural items 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 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the Berkshire Museum at the address in 

this notice by February 9, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jason Vivori, Berkshire Museum, 39 

South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201, 

telephone (413) 443–7171 Ext. 341, 

email jvivori@berkshiremuseum.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of the Berkshire 

Museum, Pittsfield, MA, that meet the 

definition of objects of cultural 

patrimony 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 Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

In the mid-18th century, two cultural 

items were removed from Whahktukuk 

in Berkshire County, MA. According to 

museum documentation, both items 

were donated to the Berkshire Museum 

in 1958 by Allen Peck of Pittsfield. 

According to the donor, both items had 

been given to Israel Dickinson of 

Pittsfield (1736–1777), his great-great 

grandfather, by Sachem John Konkapot 

of Stockbridge (ca. 1690–1765), a 

significant leader in the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin. The 

two objects of cultural patrimony are 

one wampum pouch and one pair of 

moccasins. 

In consultation with the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin, the 

Berkshire Museum has determined that 

the date and provenience of the cultural 

items reasonably accord with the lives 

of both John Konkapot and Israel 

Dickinson. Consequently, the 

information in the possession of the 

Berkshire Museum shows that Sachem 

Konkapot was the caretaker of the 

pouch and moccasins prior to the 

donor’s great-great grandfather, Israel 

Dickinson, coming into possession of 

them. 

The wampum pouch has ongoing 

historical, traditional, or cultural 

importance central to the Native 

American group or culture itself, rather 

than property owned by an individual, 

and cannot be alienated, appropriated, 

or conveyed by an individual regardless 

of whether or not the individual is a 

member of the Indian Tribe. Written 

histories establish the wampum pouch 

as a continuing culturally significant 

artifact since at least the eighteenth 

century. In Stockbridge Past and 

Present, or, Records of an Old Mission 

Station, Hendrick Aupaumut, a wellknown 18th century Stockbridge 

Mohican historian and diplomat wrote, 

‘‘The Sachem is allowed to keep Mnoti, or peaceable bag, or bag of peace. . . 

In this bag they keep various Squau-thowon, or belts of wampum: Also strings; 

which belts and strings they used to 

establish peace and friendship with 

different nations, and to use them on 

many occasions, and passed as coin. In 

this bag they keep all belts and strings 

which they received of their allies of 

different nations.’’ Aupaumut added, 

‘‘Another, and important use of the 

Wampum was its substitution in the 

place of writing. The red bead signified 

blood, the black or dark colors had a 

severe meaning, while white denoted 

peace. Then ideas could be conveyed by 

various figures into which It was 

wrought, a red hatchet, for instance, 

readily suggesting the idea of war. Thus, 

not only the fact that a treaty had been 

made, but its terms could be kept in 

mind, and the various circumstances in 

the history of a nation could be 

recorded.’’ Accordingly, the wampum 

pouch is hereditary to the office of the 

Sachem, allowing the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin to 

establish treaties with other nations 

serving as a literal container of history 

and oral tradition. 

The pair of moccasins also satisfy 

NAGPRA’s definition of cultural 

patrimony. They are significant for 

having belonged to Stockbridge-Munsee 

Sachem John Konkapot. 

Determinations Made by the Berkshire 

Museum 

Officials of the Berkshire Museum 

have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), 

the two cultural items described above 

have ongoing historical, traditional, or 

cultural importance central to the 

Native American group or culture itself, 

rather than property owned by an 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the cultural patrimony and the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Jason Vivori, Berkshire Museum, 39 

South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201, 

telephone (413) 443–7171 Ext. 341, 

email jvivori@berkshiremuseum.org, by 

February 9, 2022. After that date, if no 

additional claimants have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

objects of cultural patrimony to the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin may proceed. 

The Berkshire Museum is responsible 

for notifying the Stockbridge Munsee 

Community, Wisconsin that this notice 

has been published. 


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