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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion for 

Native American Human Remains and 

Associated Funerary Objects in the 

Possession of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

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 

Marquette County, MI. 

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 described in 

a Notice of Inventory Completion 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 20, 2001 (FR Doc. 01–6895, pages 

15752–15753). In July 2008, the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology identified six additional 

associated funerary objects. 

In the Federal Register of March 20, 

2001, paragraph number 4 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

In 1887, human remains representing 

two individuals were donated to the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology by A. Kidder. No known 

individuals were identified. The 18 

associated funerary objects are 1 brass 

kettle, 1 wooden dish, 9 bone beads, 1 

copper ornament with hair, 2 brass 

buckles, 1 iron tomahawk, 1 wooden 

handle, 1 lot of iron knife fragments, 

and 1 lot of iron scissor fragments. 

In the Federal Register of March 20, 

2001, paragraph number 6 is corrected 

by substituting the following 

paragraphs: 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of two individuals 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 18 

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 

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 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, 

Michigan. 

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 or 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, 11 Divinity Ave., 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, before September 12, 2008. 

Repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary object to the 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, 

Michigan may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

and Ethnology is responsible for 

notifying the Bad River Band of the Lake 

Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of 

the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; 

Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; 

Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake) of the 

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; 

Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; 

Fond du Lac Band of the Minnesota 

Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Forest 

County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Grand Portage Band of the 

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; 

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and 

Chippewa Indians, Michigan; 

Hannahville Indian Community, 

Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian 

Community, Michigan; Lac Courte 

Oreilles Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac 

Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Leech 

Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa 

Tribe, Minnesota; Little River Band of 

Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little 

Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 

Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish 

Band of Pottawatomi Indians of 

Michigan; Mille Lacs Band of the 

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; 

Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the 

Potawatomi, Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Prairie Band of Potawatomi 

Nation, Kansas; Red Cliff Band of Lake 

Superior Chippewa Indians of 

Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa 

Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation, 

Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Nation of 

Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & 

Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; 

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of 

Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of 

Chippewa Indians of Michigan; 

Sokaogon Chippewa Community, 

Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians 

of Wisconsin; and White Earth Band of 

the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, 

Minnesota that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 16, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAPGRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: The 

Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI 

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 in the possession of The Public 

Museum, Grand Rapids, MI. The human 

remains were removed from either the 

vicinity of Mackinaw City or Mackinac 

Island, MI. 

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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by The Public 

Museum’s professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa 

Indians, Michigan. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of two 

individuals were removed from the 

vicinity of Mackinaw City or Mackinac 

Island, MI, by E. H. Crane, an amateur 

archeologist and avid collector. Upon 

Mr. Crane’s death in 1917, the Kent 

Scientific Museum, now known as The 

Public Museum, purchased his 


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collection of human remains and other 

anthropological and natural history 

collections, including the remains of 

these two individuals. No known 

individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Museum records on the human 

remains are derived from Mr. Crane’s 

notes (written directly onto the human 

remains) and the original information 

written into the museum’s accession 

ledger at the time of acquisition. The 

museum records indicate that the 

human remains may be of mixed NativeEuropean ancestry, suggesting a postcontact date. In 1977, further 

examination by a bio-anthropologist 

found that the human remains were 

consistent with a mixture of European 

and Native American descent. In 2008, 

a professional anthropology consultant 

examined the human remains to ensure 

that they were Native American and/or 

of mixed Native American and 

European descent, and concluded they 

did exhibit physical characteristics of a 

Native American individual, but that 

they were not so clearly exclusive that 

mixed Native American-European 

ancestry could be ruled out. 

Museum records also indicated that 

the provenience was ‘‘old Mackinac, 

Michigan.’’ It is uncertain whether the 

exact provenience was Mackinac Island 

or the vicinity of Mackinaw City, as 

both of these locations were listed on 

later records, however, both Mackinaw 

City and Mackinac Island are in the 

tribal homeland of the Little Traverse 

Bay Band of Odawa Indians, Michigan. 

Historical evidence provided to the 

museum by the Little Traverse Bay Band 

of Odawa Indians establishes the 

Mackinac area as ancestral land of the 

Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa 

Indians since before the arrival of the 

first European settlers to the area in the 

1670s. The same documentation also 

provided evidence of occurrences of 

inter-marriage between people of Native 

American and European descent. Based 

on museum records, collector’s notes, 

consultation evidence, and extensive 

examination of the human remains, The 

Public Museum reasonably believes the 

human remains are of Native American 

ancestry and have a shared group 

relationship with the Little Traverse Bay 

Band of Odawa Indians, Michigan. 

Officials of The Public Museum have 

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

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of The 

Public Museum 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 Native American human 

remains and the Little Traverse Bay 

Band of Odawa Indians, Michigan. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Marilyn Merdzinski, 

Curator of Collections and Preservation, 

The Public Museum, 272 Pearl St NW, 

Grand Rapids, MI 49504, telephone 

(616) 456–3521, before September 12, 

2008. Repatriation of the human 

remains to the Little Traverse Bay Band 

of Odawa Indians, Michigan may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Public Museum is responsible for 

notifying the Little Traverse Bay Band of 

Odawa Indians, Michigan and Sault Ste. 

Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of 

Michigan that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 22, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Thomas Burke Memorial Washington 

State Museum, University of 

Washington, Seattle, WA 

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 in the control of the Thomas 

Burke Memorial Washington State 

Museum (Burke Museum), University of 

Washington, Seattle, WA. The human 

remains were removed from Jefferson 

County, WA. 

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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Burke Museum 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Hoh Indian Tribe 

of the Hoh Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe 

of Washington; Port Gamble Indian 

Community of the Port Gamble 

Reservation, Washington; Quileute 

Tribe of the Quileute Reservation 

Washington; and Skokomish Indian 

Tribe of the Skokomish Reservation, 

Washington. 

Sometime before 1952, human 

remains representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from south of 

Brinnon in Jefferson County, WA, by 

Sherry Berthiaume. The human remains 

were subsequently transferred to the 

Burke Museum in 1952 (Burke Accn. 

#3800). No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

The human remains are consistent 

with Native American morphology and 

therefore have been determined to be 

Native American. Brinnon is within the 

territory of the Twana people. Twana is 

a dialect of the Salish language and is 

represented by three subgroups: 

Skokomish, Duhelelips, and Kolsids. 

The Twana are represented by the 

present-day Skokomish Indian Tribe of 

the Skokomish Reservation, 

Washington. 

Brinnon is part of the aboriginal 

territory of the Skokomish as defined by 

the 1855 Treaty of Point-No-Point. Other 

ethnographic and legal documentation 

is consistent with this determination 

(Indian Claims Commission; Elmendorf 

1960; Mooney 1896; Handbook of North 

American Indians 1990; Smith 1940). 

Officials of the Burke Museum have 

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

3001 (9- 10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Burke Museum 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 the Skokomish Indian Tribe of the 

Skokomish Reservation, Washington. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Dr. Peter Lape, Burke 

Museum, University of Washington, Box 

353010, Seattle, WA 98195–3010, 

telephone (206) 685–2282, before 

September 12, 2008. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Skokomish 

Indian Tribe of the Skokomish 

Reservation, Washington may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Burke Museum is responsible for 

notifying the Hoh Indian Tribe of the 

Hoh Indian Reservation, Washington; 

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of 

Washington; Port Gamble Indian 

Community of the Port Gamble 

Reservation, Washington; Quileute 


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