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• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR This notice is published as part of the human remains described in this notice National Park Service’s administrative represent the physical remains of one National Park Service responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 individual of Native American ancestry. [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17550; U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] the museum, institution, or Federal is a relationship of shared group Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert agency that has control of the Native identity that can be reasonably traced S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, American human remains and between the Native American human Phillips Academy, Andover, MA associated funerary objects. The remains and associated funerary objects National Park Service is not responsible AGENCY: and the Repatriation National Park Service, Interior. for the determinations in this notice. Confederacy, representing the Mashpee ACTION: Notice. Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as Consultation SUMMARY: The Robert S. Peabody the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal A detailed assessment of the human Museum of Archaeology has completed remains and associated funerary objects Council, Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of an inventory of human remains and was made by the Robert S. Peabody Gay Head (Aquinnah), and, if joined, the associated funerary objects, in Museum of Archaeology professional Assonet Band of the Wampanoag consultation with the appropriate staff in consultation with Nation, a non-federally recognized Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian representatives of the Wampanoag Indian group). organizations, and has determined that Repatriation Confederacy, representing there is a cultural affiliation between the Additional Requestors and Disposition the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head human remains and associated funerary (Aquinnah), Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe objects and present-day Indian tribes or Lineal descendants or representatives (previously listed as the Mashpee Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, descendants or representatives of any organization not identified in this notice Inc.), and the Assonet Band of the Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian that wish to request transfer of control Wampanoag Nation (a non-federally organization not identified in this notice of these human remains and associated recognized Indian group). Inventories of that wish to request transfer of control funerary objects should submit a written human remains and associated funerary of these human remains and associated request with information in support of objects from Wakefield, Georgetown, funerary objects should submit a written the request to Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, request to the Robert S. Peabody Shattuck Farm, Lowell Textile School, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Museum of Archaeology. If no Poznick, Call, and Indian Rock sites Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 180 additional requestors come forward, were shared with the Nation of Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, transfer of control of the human remains (a non-federally telephone (978) 749–4490, email and associated funerary objects to the recognized Indian group) and the [email protected], by March 30, lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi St. 2015. After that date, if no additional Native Hawaiian organizations stated in Francis/Sokoki Band (a non-federally requestors have come forward, transfer this notice may proceed. recognized Indian group) in 1999, but consultation was not conducted with of control of the human remains and DATES: Lineal descendants or these groups. associated funerary objects to the representatives of any Indian tribe or Wampanoag Repatriation Confederacy, Native Hawaiian organization not History and Description of the Remains representing the Mashpee Wampanoag identified in this notice that wish to Cape Cod-Southeastern Tribe (previously listed as the Mashpee request transfer of control of these Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, human remains and associated funerary South Dennis Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head objects should submit a written request William W. Taylor removed human (Aquinnah), and, if joined, the Assonet with information in support of the remains representing, at minimum, one Band of the Wampanoag Nation, a non- request to the Robert S. Peabody individual at an unknown site in South federally recognized Indian group, may Museum of Archaeology at the address Dennis, Barnstable County, MA, which proceed. in this notice by March 30, 2015. were acquired by the Phillips Academy ADDRESSES: Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, Robert The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Department of Archaeology (now the S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Archaeology is responsible for notifying Robert S. Peabody Museum of Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Archaeology) in 1913 (Peabody Accn. the Wampanoag Repatriation Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) Confederacy, representing the Mashpee 54612). The human remains are one 749–4490, email [email protected]. sternum fragment. The individual is a Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is female juvenile to subadult. No known the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal here given in accordance with the individuals were identified. No Council, Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of Native American Graves Protection and associated funerary objects are present. Gay Head (Aquinnah), and the Assonet Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. No documentation exists for this site, Band of the Wampanoag Nation, a non- 3003, of the completion of an inventory other than the entries for the human federally recognized Indian group, that of human remains and associated remains in the museum catalog. Records this notice has been published. funerary objects under the control of the indicate that two other lots of artifacts Dated: January 23, 2015. Robert S. Peabody Museum of were accessioned from the same site, Melanie O’Brien, Archaeology, Phillips Academy, also acquired from William W. Taylor, Andover, MA. The human remains and including broken stone implements; Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. associated funerary objects were most of these stone implements were [FR Doc. 2015–04045 Filed 2–25–15; 8:45 am] removed from ten sites in Massachusetts deaccessioned, though one rough BILLING CODE 4312–50–P described here according to site preform (Peabody Accn. 54613) is still location, county, and town, when at the museum. The presence of stone available. implements at the site corroborates the

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identification of the remains as Native confirms that William Greene excavated Nanepashemet. This branch of the American. Temporal association is not at that part of Conant’s Hill known as Massachusetts had close relationships possible. Research by anthropologist ‘‘Site 13’’ during the period 1940–1946 with both the and . Frank Speck (see his 1928 monograph along with members of the Middleboro Bert Salwen’s 1978 entry ‘‘Indians of ‘‘Territorial Subdivisions and Archaeology Club (see Massachusetts Southern and Long Island: Boundaries of the Wampanoag, Historical Commission site file for Early Period,’’ appearing in the , and Nauset Indians,’’ Conant’s Hill #19–PL–189). A Notice of Handbook of North American Indians: Indian Notes and Monographs No. 44) Inventory Completion published by the Northeast, edited by Bruce G. Trigger places the area around South Dennis Harvard University Peabody Museum of states that the indigenous groups in the within the homeland of the Nauset, a Archaeology and Ethnology in 2003 region extending ‘‘from Saco Bay, group historically affiliated with the reported that according to museum , to the vicinity of the Housatonic Wampanoag and Narragansett. Speck records a lead ring was found in River, in Connecticut, and from Long documents the Mashpee Wampanoag as association with human remains at the Island inland to southern New the descendant community of Nauset Conant’s Hill site, indicating that at Hampshire and ’’ shared a and other Native American least some of the burials at the site date cultural pattern (page 160–161). communities of the Cape Cod area after to the Historic/Contact period (post-A.D. Elaborating on the work of Frank T. 1675. Bert Salwen’s 1978 entry ‘‘Indians 1500). The National Register of Historic Siebert, Jr., linguist Jessie Little Doe of Southern New England and Long Places nomination for Conant’s Hill Baird demonstrates linguistic unity Island: Early Period,’’ appearing in the indicates occupation from 4,500 years among Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Handbook of North American Indians: ago through A.D. 1650. Frank Speck (see Pennacook peoples in adjacent parts of Northeast, edited by Bruce G. Trigger his 1928 monograph ‘‘Territorial Rhode Island and Massachusetts, states that the indigenous groups in the Subdivisions and Boundaries of the including the area around Wakefield. region extending ‘‘from Saco Bay, Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Nauset Georgetown Maine, to the vicinity of the Housatonic Indians,’’ Indian Notes and Monographs River, in Connecticut, and from Long No. 44) places the area around Wareham Mrs. William J. Dow removed human Island inland to southern New within the homeland of the remains representing, at minimum, one Hampshire and Vermont’’ shared a Wampanoag. individual at an unknown site near cultural pattern (page 160–161). Georgetown, Essex County, MA, which Elaborating on the work of Frank T. Valley-Northeastern were acquired by the Phillips Academy Siebert, Jr., linguist Jessie Little Doe Massachusetts Department of Archaeology (now the Baird demonstrates linguistic unity Wakefield Robert S. Peabody Museum of among Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Archaeology) in 1924 (Peabody Accn. Pennacook peoples in adjacent parts of Between 1890 and 1901, Charles 57205, 57206, and 57207). The human Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Perkins removed human remains remains are fragments of a tibia, fibula, including the area on Cape Cod. representing, at minimum, one and crania. The individual is a female individual at an unknown site in juvenile to subadult. No known Wareham Wakefield, Essex County, MA, which individuals were identified. No William L. Greene removed human were acquired by the Phillips Academy associated funerary objects are present. remains representing, at minimum, one Department of Archaeology (now the No documentation exists for this site, individual at an unknown site in Robert S. Peabody Museum of other than the entries for the human Wareham, Plymouth County, MA, at Archaeology) in 1912 (Peabody Accn. remains in the museum catalog. some time in the 1940s which were 58335). The human remains are three Physical examination indicates that the acquired by the Robert S. Peabody fragmentary teeth. The individual is an remains are likely Native American. Museum of Archaeology prior to 2000 adult of indeterminate sex. No known Temporal association is not possible. (Peabody Accn. 204.1). The human individuals were identified. No Shattuck Farm remains are cranial fragments. The teeth associated funerary objects are present. present exhibit wear on the deciduous No documentation exists for this site, In May 1914 and October 1921, molars and evidence of crowding with other than the entries for the human human remains representing, at the eruption of the permanent teeth. The remains in the museum catalog. Perkins minimum, 6 individuals were removed individual is a female juvenile, aged collected other Native American from the Shattuck Farm site, Andover, approximately 9–10 years old at time of artifacts from this site (Peabody Accn. Essex County, MA. The Shattuck Farm death. No known individuals were 21201 through 21550 and 22644 through site is located on the second fluvial identified. No associated funerary 22925), corroborating the identification terrace at the ‘‘Great Bend’’ area on the objects are present. Cranial anatomy and of the human remains as Native south side of the Merrimack River. teeth are consistent with Native American. Physical examination Investigations of this site were made by American ancestry. indicates that the remains are likely Warren K. Moorehead (1914) and Alfred Kathryn Fairbanks and David DeMello Native American. Temporal association V. Kidder (1921) on behalf of the of the Robbins Museum of Archaeology is not possible. Frank Speck (see his Phillips Academy Department of in Middleborough, MA suggested that 1928 monograph ‘‘Territorial Archaeology (now the Robert S. Greene was digging in the 1940s at a site Subdivisions and Boundaries of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology) located in Wareham near the Weweantic Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Nauset (Peabody Accn. 55996, 55997, 55998, River called Horseshoe or Conant’s Hill. Indians,’’ Indian Notes and Monographs 59240, 59241, and 90.121.1 through Craig S. Chartier, Director of the No. 44) places the area around 90.121.16, and 90.122.1 through Plymouth Archaeological Discovery Wakefield within the homeland of the 90.122.3 and 90.124.1). Grave 1 includes Project, had not heard of Greene digging Massachusett. Speck notes that in the two cremation burials: Burial 1 includes in Wareham, but confirmed that early seventeenth century the area north three fragmentary rib and other calcined Conant’s Hill was the focus of burial of the Charles River extending to the bone fragments. The individual is an excavations in Wareham in the 1940s. region of Lynn and Marblehead was infant of indeterminate sex. Some of the Notes dated 1982 by Maurice Robbins controlled by the Massachusett calcined bone fragments appear to be

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copper stained. Burial 2 includes a burial as a ‘‘red paint grave,’’ alluding (Peabody Accn. 90.111.1). The variety of bone fragments from all parts to the Moorehead Burial Tradition individual is an adult male, 40–45 years of the body, but the fragmentary known from the Late Archaic. Overall, old at time of death. The human condition prohibits a detailed inventory. Shattuck Farm exhibits continuous use remains are fragmentary, but nearly The individual represented is a juvenile, from the Late Archaic around 6,000 complete. No known individuals were possibly a subadult of indeterminate years ago well into the seventeenth identified. No associated funerary sex. Ten associated funerary objects century. objects are present. Information about the Poznick site, or from Grave 1 are soil sample (1), pottery Lowell Textile School sherds (2), fire-cracked stone gorget (1), Trull Farm site, is found in Susan I. ceramic fragment (1), ochre (2), and At an unknown date, unknown Thorstensen’s 1977 article ‘‘The Poznick unmodified pebbles (3). Grave 2 persons removed human remains Site: A Preliminary Report’’ published includes two burials: Burial 1 is representing, at minimum, one in The New Hampshire Archeologist fragmentary remains tentatively individual at a site located at the Lowell (No. 19, paes 9–16), the files of the identified as a female, 30 years of age; Textile School in Lowell, Middlesex Robert S. Peabody Museum of Burial 2 consists of fragmentary teeth of County, MA (now the location of the Archaeology, records maintained by a juvenile of indeterminate age. Six North Campus of the University of Eugene C. Winter, who was involved in associated funerary objects are soil Massachusetts, Lowell), which were some excavations at the Poznick site, sample (1) and pottery sherds (5). Grave acquired by the Phillips Academy and the files of the Massachusetts 3 contained a tooth of one sub-adult Department of Archaeology (now the Historical Commission, (site #19–MD– individual of indeterminate sex. Sixty Robert S. Peabody Museum of 47). The Poznick site is located associated funerary objects are bone tool Archaeology) in 1900 from George downstream and on the opposite bank or flint knapping tool kit (5), bone Sawtelle (Peabody Accn. 90.115.1 and (eastern side) of the Merrimack River harpoon (1), pottery sherds (23), 90.120.1). The human remains are from the Lowell Textile School site (see chipped stone biface fragment (1), fragmentary. The individual is an adult above), which has been described as the chipped stone flake (1), charcoal sample female, 30–35 years of age at death. The location of a Pawtucket or Pennacook (1), ochre sample (1), felsite and quartz morphology of the palate and the teeth village. Thorstensen’s excavations, flakes (17), burnt rock fragments (9), and indicate Native American ancestry. No conducted prior to the discovery of the soil matrix sample (1). Grave 4 known individuals were identified. burial, revealed a long history of Associated funerary objects are 1 pottery contained the fragmentary remains of occupation dating back to the Middle sherd. one adult individual, 30–35 years of age, Archaic and continuing through the Information about the Lowell Textile of indeterminate sex. No associated Late Archaic and Early and Middle School site is found in the files of the Woodland periods as well. Eugene funerary objects are present. No known Robert S. Peabody Museum of individuals were identified. Winter’s research indicates that the Archaeology, records maintained by Poznick site may have been on land that Information about the Shattuck Farm Eugene C. Winter, and the files of the was reserved by English law for the site is found in Barbara E. Luedtke’s Massachusetts Historical Commission, Native Americans of the village of report ‘‘The Camp at the Bend in the (site #19–MD–46). The Lowell Textile Wamesit. According to Winter, the land River: Prehistory at the Shattuck Farm School site is located on a high bluff at the Poznick site was demarcated by Site,’’ published by the Massachusetts overlooking Pawtucket Falls on the a ditch dug around it (see Wilson Historical Commission in 1985, the files western side of the Merrimack River. Waters 1917 book ‘‘History of of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of The site files of the Massachusetts Chelmsford, Massachusetts,’’ page 78, Archaeology, and the files of the Historical Commission describe the site which mentions a ditch constructed at Massachusetts Historical Commission, here ‘‘as a large Native American Wamesit after 1660 and the merger of (site #19–ES–196). The burials village,’’ and numerous collections from two or more towns, and Charles excavated by Alfred Kidder in 1921 the site are noted in the records. Warren Cowley’s 1868 book ‘‘A History of were located on a sandy knoll near the Moorehead, in his 1931 report ‘‘The Lowell,’’ 2nd revised edition, page 12, river, and the notes on file suggest he Merrimack Archaeological Survey: A which describes the boundary ditch that was working on the kame terrace, Preliminary Paper’’ notes that at the demarcated about 2,500 acres of the probably toward the eastern edge of the Lowell Textile School burials had been Wamesit Indian Reservation, still visible site. Much of this kame terrace has been found when the boiler house was in the 1860s). lost to bulldozing and construction and erected and that numerous artifacts Call Site, Billerica testing at the site by Luedtke in the early could still be located in the area (page 1980s indicates considerable horizontal 25). Research by Eugene Winter In 1957, Douglas Jordan and Eugene temporal variation across the site, indicates that the site was likely a Winter removed human remains including on remaining portions of the fishing station to take advantage of the representing, at minimum, two kame terrace. For example, Luedtke’s falls and that , sachem of individuals from the Call site in Locus C and H sampled remaining the Pawtucket, used this site as his Billerica, Middlesex County, MA, which portions of the kame terrace, but found southernmost headquarters. were transferred to the Robert S. evidence of occupation from Early Peabody Foundation for Archaeology through Late Woodland times (from Poznick Site (now the Robert S. Peabody Museum of 2,500 to 350 years ago). Artifacts found In 1978, Eugene C. Winter and Archaeology) (Peabody Accn. 90.112.1, with some burials excavated by others at Richard ‘‘Scotty’’ MacNeish removed 90.112.2 and 90.119.1 through Shattuck Farm from the kame terrace human remains representing, at 90.119.8). The Call site is located at a dated to the period of European Contact, minimum, one individual from the sharp bend four miles upstream on the though others may have been much Poznick site in Lowell, Middlesex Concord River from its confluence with earlier. For example, Fred Luce, who County, MA, under the auspices of the the Merrimack River. Fragmentary excavated in the kame terrace burial Robert S. Peabody Foundation for remains uncovered during road area about the same time that Warren Archaeology (now the Robert S. construction represent an adult male Moorehead was at the site described one Peabody Museum of Archaeology) and one adult female, 35–40 years of

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age. No known individuals were the remains to the Robert S. Peabody and were in the possession of the identified. Sixty-six associated funerary Museum of Archaeology in 1993 Billerica Historical Society. The 1915 objects accompanied the adult male, (Peabody Accn. 90.114). Indian Rock is account states that other American including chipped stone projectile described as a small island just north of Indian graves were located in the same points (2), pottery sherds (2), burned a major bend in the Concord River in vicinity. The society no longer had long animal bone fragments (6), small flat the vicinity of present-day Hampstead bones in 1993 when the remains were pebbles (2), charcoal sample (1), Avenue. The individual is an adult transferred to the Robert S. Peabody chipped stone flakes (43), and male, approximately 50 years old at Museum of Archaeology. The undated unmodified rocks (10). time of death. The human remains are account (probably written between 1912 Information about the Call site is a cranium with anterior dentition lost and 1929) by Matthew H. Kohlrausch found in Walter A. Vossberg and J. during life and evidence of considerable asserts that this American Indian Alfred Mansfield’s 1955 article ‘‘A periodontal disease. Archival material individual was pursued and killed by Preliminary Report on the Concord identifies the remains as those of a Anglo-American settlers after murdering River Site at Billerica, Massachusetts Native American known as Punjoe or the wife of John Rogers; he also notes M–11SE9’’ and Eugene C. Winter’s 2006 Ponjo who was murdered by white that his father had the remains for some article, ‘‘An Atlantic Phase Mortuary settlers near the end of the eighteenth time, but that they were ultimately Feature at the Call Site, Billerica, MA,’’ century. No associated funerary objects incinerated. It is worth noting that all of both published in the Bulletin of the are present. these accounts date to sometime in the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Information about the archeological nineteenth or early twentieth centuries from the files of the Robert S. Peabody sites recorded in this area are found in after the remains had been excavated Museum of Archaeology, in notes by the files of the Massachusetts Historical and are not contemporary with the Eugene Winter dated August 23, 1992, Commission (site #19–MD–35) and the pursuit and murder being described. undated field notes, and the files of the files of the Robert S. Peabody Museum Wamesit was established in the area Massachusetts Historical Commission of Archaeology. Warren Moorehead, in now known as Chelmsford as a ‘‘Praying (site #19–MD–37). The Call site is his 1931 report ‘‘The Merrimack Indian’’ town in 1653 in response to a described as ‘‘a large area 18 inches Archaeological Survey: A Preliminary petition filed by John Eliot. Kathleen J. higher that surrounding plain above Paper’’ describes this area as ‘‘a long Bragdon, writing in her 2009 book swamp to north and west which leads sand ridge flanking the Concord River, Native People of Southern New to river and brook.’’ The site is located England, 1650–1775 (page 201) on the east side of the Concord River. and where the dam is located were It is important to note that the remains originally falls, also noting that two indicates that these Praying Indian and associated funerary objects reported poorly preserved burials were found in communities were often comprised of here are not those described in Winter’s the sand ridge, each covered with a thin indigenous people of a variety of ethnic 2006 article; those remains were layer of charcoal (page 24). Additional and linguistic groups. By 1675 the excavated from the same site in 1954. information about Punjoe and the tensions of King Philip’s War forced Winter’s 1992 notes describe the burials Indian Rock site are found in the native people to abandon towns like found initially by a Mr. Harley records of the Billerica Historical Wamesit; in 1686 tribal leader McCauley who was digging at the site in Society, including an undated transcript Wonalancet deeded the remaining an area where boulders were exposed of a letter from Mrs. Faulkner (circa late Wamesit lands to Anglo-American above the ground surface. Mr. nineteenth century), and in the settlers from Chelmsford. The 1695 McCauley’s digging around the boulders transcript of an address by Charles H. massacre of John Rogers and members of exposed human remains and obscured Kohlrausch Jr.to the Billerica Historical his family while living on the fringes of evidence of the original burial pit, Society delivered June 13, 1903 titled Billerica may likely be the origin of part which appears to have been about 33 ‘‘A Paper on the Early History of North of the story related by Matthew Harvey inches deep and may have been lined Billerica.’’ A similar account is found in Kohlrausch, though it would appear with stone cobbles. Unlike the the February 1915 edition of the there are considerable cremation burial reported from the site monthly leaflet ‘‘Billerica’’ (Volume 3, misunderstandings of chronology and in Winter’s 2006 article, the two burials No. 9). Matthew Harvey Kohlrausch events. American Indians did, however, reported here appear to have been (son of Charles H. Kohlrausch Jr.) continue to live in their historical bundle burials; Winter suggests in his provides a slightly different version of homelands after the demise of the 1992 notes that the associated funerary the story in his ‘‘Billerica praying communities, though often were objects reported here may have been Recollections,’’ transcribed and on file portrayed as the last of their kind in the accidental inclusions in the burial pit with the Billerica Historical Society. literature of the nineteenth century. fill. One of the chipped stone projectile Each version of the story provides a few David Steward-Smith notes in his points is identified as a Levanna, dating details and all vary slightly, but agree dissertation, cited above, that there are to 1,300 to 600 years ago. that Punjoe was the last of the Wamesit at least three stories that describe the Indians living in the Billerica area who persistence of Pennacook people in the Indian Rock Site, North Billerica was pursued and murdered by white area along the Merrimack River well In the 1880s, James Haulton removed settlers led by members of the Rogers into the eighteenth century, often human remains representing, at family, down the Concord River after recounted as ‘‘lastings’’ that describe the minimum, one individual from the some unidentified conflict. The account last of a particular indigenous vicinity of Indian Rock in North published in 1915 explains that he hid community (pages 287–288). One Billerica, Middlesex County, MA, which on Indian Rock in order to evade his individual who figures into these stories were acquired by Mrs. Luther W. pursuers, but was discovered, shot, and is Pehaugan or Pehaungun, described as Faulkner and subsequently donated by buried on ‘‘a sandy knoll on the east ‘‘the last of the ,’’ who is her to the Billerica Historical Society; side of the river.’’ The 1915 account and noted in an encounter with Captain the dates of Mrs. Faulkner’s acquisition the 1903 paper by Charles Kohlrausch Ebenezer Eastman in 1726 on the lands and donation are unknown. The concur that Punjoe’s skull and some historically occupied by Passaconaway Billerica Historical Society transferred long bones were removed from his grave and his people. According to Nathaniel

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Bouton in his 1856 book ‘‘The History • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of Concord from its First Grant in 1725, human remains described in this notice to the Organization of the City represent the physical remains of 15 National Park Service Government in 1853, with a History of individuals of Native American [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17549; the Ancient Pennacooks,’’ Pehaungun is ancestry. PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] described as being 120 years old; he • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), died in 1732 and was buried by other the 143 objects described in this notice Notice of Inventory Completion: Kerr American Indians in the area. Bouton are reasonably believed to have been County Attorney’s Office, Kerr County, also mentions that Pehaungun and placed with or near individual human TX Tahanto, another Pennacook leader, remains at the time of death or later as AGENCY: provided testimony during the trial of part of the death rite or ceremony. National Park Service, Interior. one of an Indian accused of the murder • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there ACTION: Notice. of Thomas Dickinson in 1668. Stewart- is a relationship of shared group SUMMARY: The Kerr County Attorney’s Smith notes the obviously problematical identity that can be reasonably traced Office has completed an inventory of nature of accounts like Bouton’s. It is between the Native American human human remains, in consultation with possible, however, that accounts of remains and associated funerary objects the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Pehaugan and Tahanto, coupled with and the Wampanoag Repatriation Hawaiian organizations, and has the discovery of a burial site, may have Confederacy, representing the Mashpee determined that there is a cultural provided source material for the late Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as affiliation between the human remains nineteenth and early twentieth century the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal and present-day Indian tribes or Native accounts of ‘‘Punjoe.’’ Council, Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of Hawaiian organizations. Lineal The Georgetown, Shattuck Farm, Gay Head (Aquinnah), and, if joined, the descendants or representatives of any Lowell Textile School, Poznick, Call, Assonet Band of the Wampaog Nation, Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian and Indian Rock sites are within the a non-federally recognized Indian organization not identified in this notice homeland historically occupied by the group. that wish to request transfer of control Pennacook or Pawtucket, who lived in Additional Requestors and Disposition of these human remains should submit the Merrimack River valley and adjacent a written request to the Kerr County areas of northeastern Massachusetts and Lineal descendants or representatives Attorney’s Office. If no additional New Hampshire. David Steward-Smith, of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian requestors come forward, transfer of in his 1998 Union Institute dissertation organization not identified in this notice control of the human remains to the ‘‘The Pennacook Indians and the New that wish to request transfer of control lineal descendants, or Indian tribes, or England Frontier, circa 1606–1733’’ of these human remains and associated Native Hawaiian organizations stated in discusses the coalescence of indigenous funerary objects should submit a written this notice may proceed. groups following King Philip’s War request with information in support of DATES: Lineal descendants or (1675–1678), including the Nipmuc, the request to Dr. Ryan J. Wheeler, representatives of any Indian tribe or Wampanoag, Pocumtuck, and Robert S. Peabody Museum of Native Hawaiian organization not Narragansett who sought refuge among Archaeology, Phillips Academy, 180 identified in this notice that wish to the Pennacook (p. 339). The historical Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, request transfer of control of these accounts compiled by Stewart-Smith telephone (978) 749–4490, email human remains should submit a written indicate consistent alliances with [email protected], by March 30, Abenaki peoples to the north. Bert request with information in support of 2015. After that date, if no additional the request to the Kerr County Salwen’s 1978 entry ‘‘Indians of requestors have come forward, transfer Southern New England and Long Island: Attorney’s Office at the address in this of control of the human remains and notice by March 30, 2015. Early Period,’’ appearing in the associated funerary objects to the ADDRESSES: Heather Stebbins, Kerr Handbook of North American Indians: Wampanoag Repatriation Confederacy, County Attorney, 700 Main Street, Suite Northeast, edited by Bruce G. Trigger representing the Mashpee Wampanoag BA–103, Kerrville, TX 78028, telephone states that the indigenous groups in the Tribe (previously listed as the Mashpee (830) 792–2220, email cmc@ region extending ‘‘from Saco Bay, Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, co.kerr.tx.us. Maine, to the vicinity of the Housatonic Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head River, in Connecticut, and from Long (Aquinnah), and, if joined, the Assonet SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Island inland to southern New Band of the Wampaog Nation, a non- here given in accordance with the Hampshire and Vermont’’ shared a federally recognized Indian group. Native American Graves Protection and cultural pattern (page 160–161). The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Elaborating on the work of Frank T. Archaeology is responsible for notifying 3003, of the completion of an inventory Siebert, Jr., linguist Jessie Little Doe the Wampanoag Repatriation of human remains under the control of Baird demonstrates linguistic unity Confederacy, representing the Mashpee the County of Kerr, Kerr County among Wampanoag, Massachusett, and Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as Attorney’s Office, Kerrville, TX. The Pennacook peoples in adjacent parts of the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal human remains were removed from Kerr Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Council, Inc.), the Wampanoag Tribe of County, TX. including the area around the Gay Head (Aquinnah), and the Assonet This notice is published as part of the Georgetown, Shattuck Farm, Lowell Band of the Wampaog Nation, a non- National Park Service’s administrative Textile School, Poznick, Call, and federally recognized Indian group, that responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Indian Rock sites. this notice has been published. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of Determinations Made by the Robert S. Dated: January 23, 2015. the museum, institution, or Federal Peabody Museum of Archaeology Melanie O’Brien, agency that has control of the Native Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. American human remains. The National Museum of Archaeology have [FR Doc. 2015–04062 Filed 2–25–15; 8:45 am] Park Service is not responsible for the determined that: BILLING CODE 4312–50–P determinations in this notice.

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