[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 10910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4081]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Possession 
of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to 
repatriate a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, that meets the definition of 
``unassociated funerary object'' under Section 2 of the Act.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The 
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of this 
cultural item. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations within this notice.
    The one cultural item is a buffalo horn spoon.
    In 1880, the cultural item was collected in Montana by Ernest T. 
Jackson. In 1946, Patrick T. Jackson donated this cultural item to the 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
    Museum records indicate that this cultural item was removed from a 
Crow grave in Montana. The specific cultural affiliation indicates that 
the collector was aware of the cultural affiliation of the burial, and 
suggests that it dates to historic times. Based on the specific 
cultural attribution in museum records, the probable 19th-century date 
of the burial, and the geographical location of origin within the 
historical territory of the Crow Tribe of Montana, this cultural item 
is considered to be affiliated with the Crow Tribe of Montana.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have determined that, pursuant to 
43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), this cultural item is 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 is believed, 
by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a 
specific burial site of a Native American individual. Officials of the 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology also have determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group 
identity that can be reasonably traced between this cultural item and 
the Crow Tribe of Montana.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Crow Tribe of 
Montana. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself 
to be culturally affiliated with this unassociated funerary object 
should contact Barbara Isaac, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody Museum 
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 495-2254, before March 22, 2001. 
Repatriation of this unassociated funerary object to the Crow Tribe of 
Montana may begin after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.

    Dated: January 30, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
[FR Doc. 01-4081 Filed 2-16-01; 8:45 am]
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