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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038099; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), the PMAE has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and
associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice may
occur on or after [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE
FEDERAL REGISTER].
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, email
pcapone@fas.harvard.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the National Park
Service’s administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. The determinations in this notice are
the sole responsibility of the PMAE, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of information available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at least, one individual
have been reasonably identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects is one lot of faunal
remains. In 1906, Mark Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden removed these human remains
and associated funerary objects from the St. Lawrence site in Jefferson County, NY, as part of a

Peabody Museum Expedition.
Based on the information available, one lot of associated funerary objects has been
identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects is one lot of faunal remains. These
associated funerary objects were removed from the Perch River Bay site in Jefferson County, NY,
by Mark Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum
Expedition. The human remains associated with these associated funerary objects were listed in a
Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on October 5, 2001 (66 FR
51062-51064) and a correction Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register
on March 14, 2003 (68 FR 12376-12377).
Based on the information available, one lot of associated funerary objects has been
identified. The one lot of associated funerary objects is one lot of ceramic vessels and sherds,
ceramic pipe fragments, ceramic effigy pipe fragments, ceramic discs, bone tools, faunal remains,
botanical remains, shell beads, stone beads, lithics, flakes, charcoal, charred wood, ground stone
tools, net sinkers, worked stones, unworked stones, shell, worked faunal remains, brass buttons,
an iron spring, iron nails, glass, and soil. These associated funerary objects were removed from
the Durfee Farm site in Jefferson County, NY, by Mark Raymond Harrington and Irwin Hayden
in 1906 as part of a Peabody Museum Expedition. The human remains associated with these
associated funerary objects were listed in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the
Federal Register on October 5, 2001 (66 FR 51062-51064) and a correction Notice of Inventory
Completion published in the Federal Register on March 14, 2003 (68 FR 12376-12377).
Cultural affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation, cultural affiliation is
clearly identified by the information available about the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The PMAE has determined that:
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The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one
individual of Native American ancestry.

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The three lots of objects described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been
placed intentionally with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as
part of the death rite or ceremony.

•

There is a reasonable connection between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; and the
Onondaga Nation.

Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects in
this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this notice under
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations identified in
this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in
this notice who shows, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION
IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
PMAE must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request
and not competing requests. The PMAE is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
AUTHORITY: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, and
the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 7, 2024.

Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

[FR Doc. 2024-13244 Filed: 6/14/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 6/17/2024]