Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 200 / Thursday, October 16, 2014 / Notices 62197 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals published in a 

Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register (78 FR 65367, October 

31, 2013). A re-inventory has identified 

additional human remains from the 

Moccasin Bluff site collection (20BE8) 

referenced in the previously published 

Notice of Inventory Completion. 

Transfer of control of the items in this 

correction notice has not occurred. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register (78 FR 65367, 

October 31, 2013), paragraph 11, 

sentence 1 is corrected by substituting 

the following sentence: 

On various dates, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 9 individuals 

were removed from the Moccasin Bluff site 

(20BE8) in Berrien County, MI. 

In the Federal Register (78 FR 65367, 

October 31, 2013), paragraph 11, 

sentence 4 is corrected by substituting 

the following sentence: 

In 1947, he donated the remains of five 

adults and two juveniles to the UMMA. 

In the Federal Register (78 FR 65367, 

October 31, 2013), paragraph 14, 

sentence 1 is corrected by substituting 

the following sentence: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human 

remains described in this notice represent the 

physical remains of 12 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

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 should submit 

a written request with information in 

support of the request to Dr. Ben 

Secunda, NAGPRA Project Manager, 

University of Michigan, Office of 

Research, 4080 Fleming Building, 503 S. 

Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109– 

1340, telephone (734) 647–9085, email 

bsecunda@umich.edu, by November 17, 

2014. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the Bay 

Mills Indian Community, Michigan; 

Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky 

Boy’s Reservation, Montana; Grand 

Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa 

Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay 

Indian Community, Michigan; Lac 

Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little 

River Band of Ottawa Indians, 

Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of 

Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-benash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 

Indians of Michigan; Nottawaseppi 

Huron Band of the Potawatomi, 

Michigan (previously listed as the 

Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Pokagon Band 

of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian 

Tribe of Michigan; and the Sault Ste. 

Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, 

Michigan may proceed. 

The University of Michigan 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; ChippewaCree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s 

Reservation, Montana; 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; Kickapoo 

Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo 

Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo 

Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe 

of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band 

of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 

Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of 

Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the 

Lac du Flambeau Reservation of 

Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of 

Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 

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-benash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 

Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Mille Lacs Band of the 

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; 

Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the 

Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed 

as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa 

Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of 

Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation (previously listed as the Prairie 

Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); 

Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian 

Reservation, California & Arizona; Red 

Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 

Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of 

Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & 

Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and 

Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; 

Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in 

Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe 

of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of 

Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Sokaogon 

Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. 

Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; 

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 

Indians of North Dakota; and the White 

Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa 

Tribe, Minnesota that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: September 22, 2014. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology has completed 

an inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects and present-day Indian tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations. 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 Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology. 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 Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology at the address 

in this notice by November 17, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, 

Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 

749–4490, email rwheeler@andover.edu. 


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62198 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 200 / Thursday, October 16, 2014 / Notices 

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 completion of an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 

Andover, MA. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from McCain’s site at 

Mattawamkeag in Penobscot 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. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

was made by the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Aroostook Band of 

Micmacs (previously listed as the 

Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians); 

Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; 

Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the 

Penobscot Nation (previously listed as 

the Penobscot Tribe of Maine). 

History and Description of the Remains 

In 1912, human remains representing, 

at minimum, three individuals were 

removed from McCain’s site in 

Mattawamkeag, Penobscot County, ME. 

McCain’s site is located at the 

confluence of the Mattawamkeag and 

Penobscot Rivers, on the northeastern 

side of the two rivers. The site was 

investigated by Warren K. Moorehead as 

part of his extensive study of 

archeological sites in Maine; the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

have been curated at the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology since 

their discovery by Moorehead’s survey. 

The fragmentary remains of three 

individuals—one adult, one subadult, 

and one juvenile to subadult—were 

identified. The human remains consist 

of calcined cranial and long bone 

fragments. No known individuals were 

identified. The 14 associated funerary 

objects are 8 lithic flakes, 3 pebbles, 1 

animal tooth (cervid), and 2 animal 

bone fragments (cervid). 

Information about McCain’s site is 

found in Moorehead’s A Report on the 

Archaeology of Maine (1922), in the 

fieldnotes of F.B. Manning from the 

survey on file at the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology, and in the files 

of the Maine Historic Preservation 

Commission, Maine Archaeological 

Survey (site #123.6). The written 

sources on the site describe test 

excavations in a number of sites located 

at the juncture of the two rivers, 

including the discovery of Native 

American burials and habitation sites, at 

least some of which date to the period 

of European contact. F.B. Manning’s 

fieldnotes attribute some of the burials 

discovered at Mattawamkeag to the ‘‘red 

ochre people,’’ likely a reference to what 

is now called the Moorehead Burial 

Tradition; Moorehead, however, 

discounts that any of the discoveries at 

Mattawamkeag were ‘‘Red Paint’’ 

cemeteries. Cremation burials are 

described by archeologists as 

characteristic of the Susquehanna 

Tradition, circa 3700 to 3000 BP in 

Maine. Specific descriptions of the 

burials described here are not found in 

the written sources on the site, though 

it seems likely that they date to the Late 

Archaic. 

Oral history narratives that place the 

origins of the Penobscot, 

Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet in Maine 

are often tied to specific places, 

landscape features, and ecological zones 

characteristic of Maine. These oral 

history narratives are significant in 

affiliating the Penobscot, 

Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet with the 

McCain’s site, especially as 

archeological evidence is equivocal 

regarding connections. Mattawamkeag is 

significant to the Wabanaki, and figures 

in the seventeenth through nineteenth 

century histories of the tribes, as 

supported by oral narrative, 

archeological evidence, and written 

documents. Continuous occupation and 

reoccupation of places, like 

Mattawamkeag, along with the 

significance of place-names, canoe and 

trail routes, and landscape features 

reaffirm Wabanaki connections and may 

reflect more ancient traditions of 

aggregation in certain places. Continuity 

between ancient and contemporary 

indigenous people is supported by the 

long temporal occupation of the 

Mattawamkeag area during Archaic, 

Woodland and more recent times. The 

use of red ochre in graves, well-known 

in the Late Archaic Maine cemeteries, 

continues to be significant to 

contemporary Wabanaki people. 

Anthropological perspectives regarding 

affiliation of the Wabanaki peoples with 

the cultures of the Late Archaic are 

consistent with the contemporary 

viewpoint of the Wabanaki. 

Determinations Made by the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

Officials of the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of three 

individuals of Native American 

ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the 14 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), 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 Aroostook Band of Micmacs 

(previously listed as the Aroostook Band 

of Micmac Indians); Houlton Band of 

Maliseet Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; 

and the Penobscot Nation (previously 

listed as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine). 

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 Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 180 

Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, 

telephone (978) 749–4490, email 

rwheeler@andover.edu, by November 

17, 2014. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Aroostook Band of 

Micmacs (previously listed as the 

Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians); 

Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; 

Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the 

Penobscot Nation (previously listed as 

the Penobscot Tribe of Maine) may 

proceed. 

The Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology is responsible for notifying 

the Aroostook Band of Micmacs 

(previously listed as the Aroostook Band 

of Micmac Indians); Houlton Band of 

Maliseet Indians; Passamaquoddy Tribe; 

and the Penobscot Nation (previously 

listed as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine) 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: September 22, 2014. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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