[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 39 (Monday, February 28, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-4492]
[Federal Register: February 28, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains From
Hawaii in the Possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d), of
the completion of the inventory of human remains from Hawaii in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard.
The human remains came to the Peabody Museum as part of 16
collections between 1867 and 1959. There are no associated funerary
objects. A detailed inventory and assessment of the human remains has
been made by the staff of the Peabody Museum in consultation with
representatives of Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i Nei, the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, and the Kaua'i/Nihau, Maui/Lanai, Molokai, and O'ahu
Burial Councils.
The human remains consist of the following:
One cranium (19-5-70/59745) from Nohile sand dunes, Kaua'i County,
Kaua'i Island.
Twenty-one crania (36-96-70/N3482-N3502) and eight mandibles (36-
96-70/N3503) from dune burials in Kaua'i County.
Twenty-one crania (67-39-70/1115-1135) from southerly shore sand
dunes, Kaua'i County.
One cranium (72-20-70/6792) from Kaua'i County.
Two crania (16-8-70/59647 and 59648) from an ``ancient burial
place'', Maui County
Twenty-one crania, two partial crania, and one partial cranium
together with fragmentary axial elements
(78-45-70/15267-15290) from Maui County.
One skeleton (80-25-70/23518), complete except for fragmentary
extremities, from an ancient burial place, Maui County.
Five crania (16-8-70/59641-59645) from the beach beyond Diamond
Sand Dunes Hill, Oahu.
Six crania (23-5-70/60363-60368) found during the excavation of a
canal in Waikiki, Oahu.
Two almost complete skeletons and fragmentary postcranial remains
from five more individuals (23-5-70/60369-60372) found while excavating
for a sewer system in Honolulu County, Oahu.
Three partial crania and six crania (36-4-70/N1324-N1332) from lava
caves near Honolulu, Oahu.
Four crania and three fragmentary crania (85-7-70/37592-37397a)
that, from circumstantial documentary evidence, may come from Oahu.
One cranium, one partial cranium and one partial cranium with two
right femurs (86-58-70/61492-61494) from Honolulu, Oahu.
Twenty seven crania (00/N939; 16-8-70/59646; 20-4-70/59931 and
59932; 50-70-70/N7476; 59-27-70/N8615-N8620; 80-25-70/23503-23517),
fragmentary appendicular elements (27-5-70/60797), and twenty four
mandibles (00/N1013; 80-25-70/23519) are attributed to Hawai'i with no
further information. Six of these crania (59-27-70/N8615-N8620) came to
the Peabody Museum from the Warren Anatomical Museum.
Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Museum
have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2) that there is a
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced
between these remains and present-day Native Hawaiian organizations.
This notice has been sent to officials of Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 'O
Hawai'i Nei and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Representatives of any
other Native Hawaiian organization which believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with these human remains should contact Mrs.
Barbara Isaac, Assistant Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138,
or call (617) 495-2248, before March 30, 1994.
Dated: February 18, 1994.
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Departmental Consulting Archeologist,Chief, Archeological
Assistance Division.
[FR Doc. 94-4492 Filed 2-25-94; 8:45 am]
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