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Federal Register/Vol. 66, No. 225/Wednesday, November 21 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 225 / Wednesday, November 21, 2001 / Notices 58521 Jasper County NEW JERSEY the direction of Dr. Ales Hrdicka. Fountain Park Chautauqua, 6244 W. Cty Rd. Bergen County Expedition members often made 1600S, Remington, 01001351. personal collections after Dr. Hrdlicka Bogert-Wilkens Factory Site and the Sandy selected items for the Smithsonian La Porte County Beach Swim Club Facility, Address Restricted, Oakland 01001201. collections. In 1983, Mr. May donated Barker House, 444 Barker St., Michigan City, the collection to the Anchorage Museum [FR Doc. 01–29092 Filed 11–20–01; 8:45 am] 01001349. of History and Art. The human remains First Congregational Church of Michigan BILLING CODE 4310–70–P and associated funerary objects from City, 531 Washington St., Michigan City, kagamil Island in the Anchorage 01001343. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Museum of History and Art are Garrettson—Baine—Bartholomew House, associated with a much larger collection 2921 Franklin St., Michigan City, National Park Service of human remains and funerary objects 01001340. from Kagamil Island saves assembled by Marion County Notice of Inventory Completion for Dr. Hrdlicka during the 1936 and 1938 Native American Human Remains and expeditions; this larger collection is in Cumberland Historic District, Roughly Associated Funerary Objects in the the control of the National Museum of bounded by Munsie, Welland, Heflin, and Possession of the Anchorage Museum Natural History, Smithsonian Warehouse Sts., Cumberland, 01001341. of History and Art, Anchorage, AK, and Institution, Washington, DC. No known Spink Arms Hotel, 410 N. Meridian St., in the Control of the U.S. Department individual was identified. The 126 Indianapolis, 01001345. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife associated funerary objects are 64 Shelby County Service, Region 7 Alaska Regional basketry fragments (some include feathers), 2 birdskin garments, I mukluk Porter Pool Bathhouse, 501 N. Harrison St., Office, Anchorage, AK Shelbyville, 01001348. fragment, 1 bentwood dish, 3 wooden AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. bowls, 2 wooden container fragments, 9 Steuben County ACTION: Notice. unidentified wood items (some include cordage, sinew, twine, skin, and hair), 4 Pleasant Lake Depot, 1469 W. Main St., Notice is hereby given in accordance Pleasant Lake, 01001344. stone abraders, 1 miniature yo-yo, 26 with provisions of the Native American rapes, 5 lines, 2 grass bundles, 4 fur/ Tippecanoe County Graves Protection and Repatriation Act skin strips and fur fragments, 1 set of Varsity, The, 101 Andrew Place, West (NAGPRA), 433 CFR 10.9, of the bird wings, and 1 possible baleen item. Lafayette, 01001342. completion of an inventory of human There are no radiocarbon dates for remains and associated funerary objects any of the Kagmail Island cave NEW HAMPSHIRE, in the possession of the Anchorage collections. The consensus among Coos County Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, anthropologists, however, is that the AK, and in the control of the U.S. collections date to the Late Prehistoric Wallace Farm, 27 Wallace Rd., Columbia, Department of the Interior, Fish and 01001353. period, possibly no earlier than 500- Wildlife Service, Region 7 Alaska 1000 B.P. The Aleut practice of cave Rockingham County Regional Office, Anchorage, AK. burials existed into the Protohistoric St. Andrew’s By-The-Sea, Church Rd., 0.2 mi. This notice is published as part of the period in the Aleutian Islands but was SE of jct. with South Rd. and Rte. 1A, Rye, National Park Service’s administrative not practiced after circa A.D. 1760, 01001352. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR During the Russian and American 10.2(2). The determination within this periods, explorers, priest and others OKLAHOMA notice are the sole responsibility of the recorded Aleut knowledge about burial Cleveland County museum, institution, or Federal agency cave practices and Aleut beliefs about that has control of these Native Bavinger, Eugene, House, (Bruce Goff burial sites. American human remains and The present-day Aleut cultural Designed Resources in Oklahoma MPS), associated funerary objects. The 730 60th Ave., NE., Norman, 01001354. affiliation with prehistoric populations National Park Service is not responsible is evident in the cultural continuity of Oklahoma County for the determinations within this artifact assemblage content and artifact Pollock, Donald, House, (Bruce Goff notice. form throughout the Aleutian region Designed Resources in Oklahoma MPS) A detailed assessment of the human since the earliest occupation 8700 B.P. 2400 NW 59th St., Oklahoma City, remains was made by Anchorage Biological data indicate is situ 01001356. Museum of History and Art and development of Palco-Aleuts to Neo- Aleutian/Prifilof Islands Association, Aleuts after the Aleut-Eskimo Inguistic Tulsa County Inc., professional staff in consultation stock divergence some 9000 years B.P. Dawson School, Jct. of East Ute Place and N. with representatives of the Native Glottochronological evidence indicates Kingston Pl., Tulsa, 01001357. Village of Niolski (IRA) and Chaluka that the Aleut language diverged from Jones, Robert Lawton, House, 1916 E. 47th Corporation for the native village of Eskimoid languages between 4000 and St., Tulsa, 01001355. Nikolski, Umnak Island, Alaska. 4600 B.P. In 1936 or 1938, human remains In the 1790s, the Aleut villages of the WEST VIRGINIA representing one individual were Islands of the Four Mountains, which Hancock County collected from a burial cave on Kagamil includes Kagamil Island, and Aleut Baker’s Bottom Historic District, WV 2, Island, AK, in what was then the villages of western Umnak Island were Newell, 01001358. Aleutian Islands Refuge, and is now the at war. At the end of that conflict, the Aleutian Islands Unit of the Alaska remaining villagers from the Islands of An Error in notification has been Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, by the Four Mountains were moved by the made. The listing of the following Alan C. May, a member of an authorized Russian skipper Sarychev to villages in resource is not pending: Smithsonian Institution expedition to western Umnak Island, During the 19th the Aleutian and Commander Islands century those villages consolidated into VerDate 11<MAY>2000 18:33 Nov 20, 2001 Jkt 197001 PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21NON1.SGM pfrm04 PsN: 21NON1 58522 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 225 / Wednesday, November 21, 2001 / Notices one village, which is the present-day completion of an inventory of human individuals were identified. The 20 Nikolski. remains and associated funerary objects associated funerary objects are 2 Based on the above-mentioned in the possession of the Robert S. perforated ground stone cylinders; 1 information, officials of the U.S. Fish Peabody Museum of Archaeology, large chipped stone biface; 1 polishing and Wildlife Service have determined Andover, MA. stone; 1 possible mini celt; 1 rock; 1 lot that, pursuant to 433 CFR 10.2(d)(1), the This notice is published as part of the of burned earth; 1 lot of organics and human remains listed above represent National Park Service’s administrative copper fragments; 1 lot of soil and the physical remains of one individual responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR charcoal matrix; 1 lot of soil, charcoal, of Native American ancestry. Officials of 10.2 (c). The determinations within this organics, and ochre matrix; 1 lot of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also notice are the sole responsibility of the charcoal, organics, and copper beads; 6 have determined that, pusaunt to 43 museum, institution, or Federal agency lots of charcoal, organics, and copper CFR 10.2(d)(2), the 126 objects listed that has control of these Native fragments; and 2 lots of charcoal.The above are reasonably believed to have American human remains and Mason’s Cemetery site has been dated to been placed with or near individual associated funerary objects. The the later part of the Early Ceramic human remains at the time of death or National Park Service is not responsible period (3150–2150 B.P./1150–150 B.C.) later as part of the death rite or for the determinations within this based on artifact assemblages from the ceremony. Lastly, officials of the U.S. notice. site and radiocarbon dating. Though Fish and Wildlife Service have A detailed assessment of the human there are some discontinuities between determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR remains was made by the Robert S. the Early Ceramic and the Middle 10.2(e), there is a relationship of shared Peabody Museum of Archaeology Ceramic periods in Maine, it seems that group identify that can be reasonably professional staff in consultation with the continuities in the archeological traced between these Native American representatives of the Aroostook Band of record between these periods are human remains and associated funerary Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton stronger than not. Although burial objects and the Native Village of Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine, treatment and exchange relations do Nikolski (IRA) and Chaluka Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and differ from later periods, maritime Corporation. Penobscot Tribe of Maine. technologies, settlement patterns and This notice has been sent to officials In 1956, human remains representing seasonal occupations are more of the Aleutian/Priblof Islands one individual were recovered from the continuous than not from the Early to Association, Inc., Native Village of Pond Island site in Deer Isle, Hancock Late Ceramic periods. In addition, Nikolski (IRA), and Chaluka County, ME, by Douglas Byers under the ceramic technology and morphology Corporation. Repriation of any other auspices of the Robert S. Peabody indicate gradual change rather than Indian tribe that believes itself to be Museum of Archaeology. No known population replacement. culturally affiliated with these human individual was identified. No associated Based on the above-mentioned remains and associated funerary objects funerary objects are present. information, officials of Robert S. should contact Debra Corbett, U.S. Fish The Pond Island site was occupied Peabody Museum of Archaeology have and Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor 2150–950 B.P./150 B.C.-A.D.
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