97-6183. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items from Arizona in the Possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 12, 1997)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items from Arizona 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, 25 U.S.C. 3005(a)(2), of the intent to repatriate 
a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, which meets the 
definition of ``cultural patrimony'' under Section 2 of the Act.
    The cultural items are 20 yellow wooden sunflowers, five white 
wooden sunflowers, two leather sunflowers, 26 wooden cones, and one 
wooden bird.
    In 1915, Mr. Kidder and Mr. Guernsey excavated these cultural items 
from Sunflower Cave, Marsh Pass, AZ during an expedition sponsored by 
the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. These items were 
accessioned into the Museum's collections the same year.
    Excavation records and anthropological sources indicate these items 
were likely deposited in Sunflower Cave during the Pueblo I period 
(750-975 AD). Consultation evidence presented by representatives of the 
Hopi Tribe on behalf of the Flute Clan practices and have ongoing 
historical, traditional, and cultural importance central to the Flute 
Clan and could not have been alienated by any individual.
    Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), these 54 cultural 
items have ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural importance 
central to the culture itself, and could not have been alienated, 
appropriated, or conveyed by any individual. Officials of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have also determined that, pursuant 
to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity 
which can be reasonably traced between these items and the Flute Clan 
of Walpi, First Mesa, of the Hopi Tribe.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Hopi Tribe. 
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with these objects should contact Mrs. Barbara 
Isaac, Assistant Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 
11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone [phone] before 
April 11, 1997. Repatriation of these objects to the Hopi Tribe on 
behalf of the Flute Clan may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.
    Dated: March 7, 1997.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Manager, Archeology and 
Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 97-6183 Filed 3-11-97; 8:45 am]
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