Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 234 / Thursday, December 5, 2024 / Notices 96671 

claimant prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The National 

Forests in Florida is responsible for 

sending a copy of this notice to the 

lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and 

Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice and to any other 

consulting parties. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.7. 

Dated: November 22, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

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Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert 

S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 

Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert 

S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy (RSPI) 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. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 6, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Ryan J. Wheeler, RSPI, 

Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, 

Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 

749–4490, email rwheeler@andover.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 RSPI, and 

additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Human remains representing, at least, 

21 individuals have been identified. The 

144 associated funerary objects are two 

lots of beads, nine lots of stone bifaces, 

three lots of copper buttons, five lots of 

stone celts, nine lots of chipped stone, 

one lot of clay, one lot of copper objects, 

one lot stone flakes, three lots of game 

pieces, two lots of shell gorgets, four lots 

of ground stone objects, one lot knives, 

two lots of mixed ceramic, stone, and 

faunal remains, five lots of modified 

shell, one lot of pebbles, one lot of 

perforators, one lot of stone pestles, 25 

lots of stone points and projectile 

points, one lot of stone scrapers, 12 lots 

of shell and shell fragments, 41 lots of 

ceramic sherds, one lot of stone balls, 

one lot of unmodified shells, and 12 lots 

of ceramic vessels. In 1903, Warren K. 

Moorehead, curator of the RSPI (then 

known as the Department of 

Archaeology, Phillips Academy) 

disturbed burials at a large site on the 

farm of James R. Willis about 4 miles 

south of Hopkinsville, Christian County, 

KY. Moorehead removed remains and 

funerary belongings from at least 100 

graves; Moorehead and other RSPI 

personnel transferred individuals to 

other institutions, including the 

Smithsonian Institution’s National 

Museum of Natural History and the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University. 

Ceramics and other features indicate the 

site dates to the late Mississippian 

Tinsley Hill phase, a subphase of the 

Angel Phase. RSPI personnel were 

unable to locate specific information 

about the presence of any potentially 

hazardous substances used to treat any 

of the human remains or associated 

funerary objects. Additional human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

from Moorehead’s 1903 disturbance are 

reported by the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University in a separate Notice. 

Cultural Affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is clearly identified by the 

information available about the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice. 

Determinations 

The RSPI has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 21 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 144 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a connection between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects described in this notice and 

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation; Eastern 

Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Quapaw 

Nation; Shawnee Tribe; The Muscogee 

(Creek) Nation; The Osage Nation; and 

the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee 

Indians in Oklahoma. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

authorized representative identified in 

this notice under 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 January 6, 2025. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the RSPI 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 RSPI is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: November 22, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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