Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 164 / Thursday, August 25, 2005 / Notices 49949

The Neville Public Museum of Brown 

County has determined that the 

wampum belt is an object of cultural 

patrimony that has ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Stockbridge Munsee 

Community, Wisconsin. Cultural 

affiliation with the Stockbridge Munsee 

Community, Wisconsin, and the 

museum’s determination that the 

wampum belt is an object of cultural 

patrimony, are based on museum 

documentation and oral history, as well 

as consultation evidence presented by 

representatives of the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin that 

indicates that no individual had or has 

the right to alienate a wampum belt.

Officials of the Neville Public 

Museum of Brown County have 

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

3001 (3)(D), the one cultural item 

described above has ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. Officials of the 

Neville Public Museum of Brown 

County 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 object of cultural patrimony and the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin.

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the one object of cultural 

patrimony should contact Eugene 

Umberger, Director, Neville Public 

Museum of Brown County, 210 Museum 

Place, Green Bay, WI 54303, telephone 

(920) 448–4460, before September 26, 

2005. Repatriation of the object of 

cultural patrimony to the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward.

Neville Public Museum of Brown 

County is responsible for notifying the 

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin 

and Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin that this notice has been 

published.

Dated: July 26, 2005.

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

This notice rescinds the Federal 

Register Notice of Intent to Repatriate 

Cultural Items of December 10, 2003, FR 

Doc. 03–30567, page 68950. This notice 

changes the cultural items described in 

the previously published notice from 

unassociated funerary objects to 

associated funerary objects and adds the 

human remains representing a 

minimum of one individual.

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 Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects were removed from 

West Warwick, Kent County, RI.

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 Peabody Museum 

of Archaeology and Ethnology 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Narragansett 

Indian Tribe of Rhode Island.

In 1957, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed from West Warwick, Kent 

County, RI, by Dave Straight. The 

human remains were donated to the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology by the Massachusetts 

Archaeological Society through Maurice 

Robbins later that same year. The 

human remains were found during the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology’s inventory process after the 

publication of the Notice of Intent to 

Repatriate Cultural Items on December 

10, 2003. The two associated funerary 

objects are one bag of bark fragments 

and one box of brass kettle fragments.

This interment most likely dates to 

the post-contact period or later (post 

A.D. 1500). Copper and brass kettles 

were European trade items, and 

therefore support a post-contact 

temporal context for the burial. In 

addition, museum documentation 

describes the human remains as 

‘‘Narragansett.’’ Such a specific 

attribution suggests that the burial dates 

to the Historic period. The burial 

context indicates that the burial was of 

a Native American. Oral tradition and 

historical documentation indicate that 

West Warwick, RI, is within the 

aboriginal and historic homeland of the 

Narragansett people during the Contact 

period. The present-day tribe 

representing the Narragansett people is 

the Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode 

Island.

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology have 

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

3001 (9-10), the human remains listed 

above represent the physical remains of 

one individual of Native American 

ancestry. Officials of the Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 

also have determined that, pursuant to 

25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the two objects 

listed 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 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology 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 Native American human remains 

and associated funerary objects and the 

Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode 

Island.

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation 

Coordinator, Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, before September 26, 2005. 

Repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the 

Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode 

Island may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

and Ethnology is responsible for 

notifying the Narragansett Indian Tribe 

of Rhode Island that this notice has been 

published.

Dated: July 22, 2005

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

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