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region well into the 18th century. Based 

on material culture and provenience, 

the unassociated funerary objects are 

reasonably believed to be culturally 

affiliated with the Caddo Nation of 

Oklahoma. Representatives of the Caddo 

Nation of Oklahoma have viewed the 

unassociated funerary objects and 

support a cultural affiliation of the 

Caddo Nation with these objects. 

Officials of the Texarkana Museums 

System have determined that, pursuant 

to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 209 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 a Native American individual. 

Officials of the Texarkana Museums 

System also have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is 

a relationship of shared group identity 

that can be reasonably traced between 

the unassociated funerary objects and 

the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact J.A. Simmons, 

Texarkana Museums System, PO Box 

2343, Texarkana, TX 75504, telephone 

(903) 793–4831, before April 24, 2009. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the Caddo Nation of 

Oklahoma may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The Texarkana Museums System is 

responsible for notifying the Caddo 

Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: March 10, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Department of Anthropology, 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 

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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in the possession and control of the 

Department of Anthropology, University 

of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects are believed to have been 

removed from a Maine coastal shell 

midden either east of the Penobscot Bay 

and/or possibly Bailey Island, Casco 

Bay, Cumberland County, ME. 

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. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains and an inventory of the 

associated funerary objects were made 

by the Department of Anthropology, 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

professional staff in consultation with 

Amherst College, Amherst, MA, and 

Smith College, Northampton, MA, and 

with the Wabanaki Intertribal 

Repatriation Committee, a nonFederally recognized Indian group, 

representing the Aroostook Band of 

Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton 

Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine, 

Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and 

Penobscot Tribe of Maine. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of four 

individuals are believed to have been 

removed from an unknown shell 

midden site in Maine. Sometime in the 

1970s, the human remains and 

associated funerary objects became part 

of the collection of the Department of 

Anthropology, University of 

Massachusetts, Amherst, and became 

known as the Bailey Collection. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

128 associated funerary objects are 3 

felsite chunks; 22 carved bone pieces; 6 

beaver teeth fragments; 9 carnivore and 

herbivore teeth fragments; 1 bone point; 

9 animal bone fragments; 1 mammal 

claw; 9 bone harpoon tips; 2 axes, 4 

blanks; 1 possible pestle; 1 axe-like 

lithic; 1 cobble; 8 ground and polished 

stone tools; 43 bifaces; 4 projectile 

points; and 4 pottery sherds. 

The collection records do not provide 

a clear provenience for these materials, 

though they are suggestive that the 

collection was excavated by people 

during the early 20th century. It is 

unknown if the name ‘‘Bailey’’ refers to 

a collector’s name, site name, or 

geographic placename. Additional 

research does not establish an 

association with the archeologist John 

H. Bailey who worked in Vermont in the 

1930s, or with the work of archeologists 

Alfred Bailey or L.W. Bailey. The 

collection may be from a site on Bailey 

Island in Casco Bay, ME, although there 

is no clear association to any known 

archeological excavations at this 

location. Documents in the collections 

records suggest that there might be a 

connection to the work of Professor 

Frederic Loomis of Amherst College, 

who conducted fieldwork at shell 

midden sites in Maine during the 1910s 

to 1930s. In 1914, Loomis donated some 

material collected from shell midden 

sites at Boothbay, Biggers Island, Winter 

Harbor, Sorrento, and Slave Islands to 

Professor Harris Hawthorne Wilder of 

Smith College, who was also excavating 

in Maine at the time. Sometime after 

1966, shell midden materials from these 

sites were transferred from Smith 

College to the Department of 

Anthropology, University of 

Massachusetts, Amherst. Although the 

records from Amherst College and 

Smith College do not specifically 

mention the ‘‘Bailey’’ site, it is possible 

that the Bailey collection was part of 

this transfer. 

In 1990, University of Massachusetts 

Professor Dena Dincauze, in 

consultation with Dr. Bruce Bourque of 

the University of Maine, concluded that 

the artifacts in the Bailey Collection are 

consistent with those recovered from 

coastal shell middens east of the 

Penobscot Bay, ME. During Bourque’s 

assessment of the barbed harpoon forms, 

corner-notched Late Period bifaces, 

pebble adze and other ground stone 

pieces, and raw materials such as Kineo 

felsites and ‘‘trap’’ (possibly hornfels), 

he noted calcium carbonate deposits on 

some of the artifacts, which is typical of 

materials recovered from leaching shell 

middens. According to Dincauze, the 

styles of the artifacts indicate a date to 

the ‘‘Ceramic Period’’ of Maine, 

especially the last 1,500 years before 

European contact, though there are 

some artifacts (e.g., a large biface) that 

are similar to Middle Woodland (2000– 

1600 BP) artifacts. Bourque, Dincauze, 

and Dr. Arthur Spiess, of the Maine 

Historic Preservation Commission, have 

suggested that the style of the bone 

comb top in the collection resembles 

Beothuk or Inuit styles more 

characteristic of Newfoundland than 

Maine. However, since most of the 

materials are from the Ceramic Period, 

the officials of the Department of 

Anthropology, University of 

Massachusetts, Amherst, reasonably 

believe they are from the same type of 

burials. In 2008, a tribal representative 

of the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, after 

reviewing the materials, concurred with 

Dincauze and Bourque and found the 


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artifact assemblage to be consistent with 

possible associated funerary objects 

from Ceramic Period burials in Maine. 

The Aroostook Band of Micmac 

Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of 

Maliseet Indians of Maine, 

Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and 

Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented 

by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation 

Committee, a non-Federally recognized 

Indian group, are widely recognized as 

having a shared cultural relationship 

with the people of the Ceramic Period 

of Maine (2,000 B.P. to European 

contact). 

Officials of the Department of 

Anthropology, University of 

Massachusetts, Amherst have 

determined that pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of four individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Department of Anthropology, University 

of Massachusetts, Amherst also have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (3)(A), the 128 objects 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. Lastly, officials of the 

Department of Anthropology, University 

of Massachusetts, Amherst have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (2), there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can 

reasonably be traced between the Native 

American human remains and the 

associated funerary objects and the 

Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of 

Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet 

Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe 

of Maine, and Penobscot Tribe of Maine, 

represented by the Wabanaki Intertribal 

Repatriation Committee, a nonFederally recognized Indian group. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Robert Paynter, Repatriation 

Committee Chair, Department of 

Anthropology, University of 

Massachusetts, 201 Machmer Hall, 240 

Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, 

telephone (413)545–2221, before April 

24, 2009. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Aroostook Band of Micmac 

Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of 

Maliseet Indians of Maine, 

Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and 

Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented 

by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation 

Committee, a non-Federally recognized 

Indian group, may proceed after that 

date if no additional claimants come 

forward. 

The Department of Anthropology, 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst is 

responsible for notifying Amherst 

College and Smith College, and the 

Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of 

Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet 

Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe 

of Maine, Penobscot Tribe of Maine, and 

Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation 

Committee, a non-Federally recognized 

Indian group, that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: March 12, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Georgia Department of Natural 

Resources, Atlanta, GA 

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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in the possession of the Georgia 

Department of Natural Resources, 

Atlanta, GA. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from Bartow County, GA. 

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. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Georgia 

Department of Natural Resources 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; 

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of 

North Carolina; Kialegee Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 

Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United 

Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 

Oklahoma. 

In 1954–61, 1962, 1964–65, and 1972– 

73, human remains representing a 

minimum of 404 individuals were 

removed from the Etowah Mounds, 

Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic 

Site (9BR1) in Bartow County, GA. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

187,060 associated funerary objects are 

1 anvil fragment; 10 bone awls/ 

fragments; 3 stone axes; 129 copper 

symbol badges/fragments; 6 woven cane 

basket fragments; 4 tortoise shell batons; 

2 bone beads; 1 clay bead; 19 copper 

covered wooden beads/fragments; 1 

copper bead; 1 blue glass bead; 8,273 

pearl beads; 159,572 shell beads; 5 

wooden beads; 11 stone blades; 2 

copper covered wooden bodkins; 38 

shell bowls/fragments; 1 wooden bowl; 

11 copper celts; 1 iron celt; 22 stone 

celts/fragments; 2 indeterminate celts; 6 

chunkey stones; 3 copper covered wood 

coils; 2 chert core; 23 quartz crystals; 42 

daub samples; 36 ceramic discs; 64 mica 

discs; 7 shell discs; 6 stone discs; 5 

wooden discs; 2 stone drills; 54 copper 

covered ear discs; 2 mica ear discs; 1 

shell ear disc (nos. 3 & 4); 1 ear disc of 

undocumented material; 2 wooden ear 

discs; 1 clay ear ornament; 1 copper ear 

spool; 2 painted stone figures; 50 

charcoal samples; 75 ethnobotanical 

remains; 567 cane matting; 3,957 faunal 

remains; 6 split cane fragments; 6 fabric/ 

cloth fragments; 1 fur fragment; 567 hair 

fragments; 3 leather fragments; 3 

miscellaneous mixed fur/leather/fabric 

fibers; 2 strings; 3 fibers; 1 bone fish 

hook; 233 stone flakes; 24 copper 

fragments; 10 unfired clay samples; 8 

clay samples; 19 pigment samples; 4 soil 

samples; 291 stones; 7 copper gorgets/ 

fragments; 39 shell gorgets/fragments; 

23 copper hair ornaments; 1 tortoise 

shell hair ornament; 5 hammerstone; 2 

copper headdresses; 2 mica headdress 

pieces; 13 fragments from a headdress; 

1 wooden headdress fragment; 11 shell 

hoes; 3 stone knives; 1 plaster cast of a 

log; 23 copper-covered wooden mask 

fragments; 1 shell mask; 2 pieces of cane 

matting; 6 plaster casts of cane matting; 

1 nutting stone; 1 baked clay cylindershaped object; 61 copper ornaments; 

199 decorations/ornaments/fragments; 4 

sun symbols; 17 tortoise shell 

ornaments/fragments; 7 stone paint 

palettes; 22 shell pendants; 13 bone 

pins/fragments; 1 copper covered 

wooden pin; 2 ear pins of 

undocumented material; 12 shell ear 

pins/fragments; 1 tortoise shell pin; 3 

ear disc pins; 3 wooden pins; 13 

ceramic pipes/fragments; 1 pipe 

fragment; 6 stone pipes; 12 copper 

plates; 4 polished stones; 13 antler 

projectile points; 4 bone projectile 

points; 37 stone projectile points/ 

knives; 2 quartz crystals; 10 wooden 

rattle fragments; 1 stone ring; 2 logs; 

1,348 shells/fragments; 10,791 ceramic 


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