Notice of 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 Kauai/Nihau,
Maui/Lanai, Molokai, and O'ahu Burial Councils.
The human remains consist of the following:
One cranium (19-5:59745) from Hohile sand dunes, Kuai
County, Kuai Island.
Twenty-one crania (36-96:N3482-3485 and 3487-3503) and
eight mandibles (36-96:N3486) from dune burials in Kuai
County.
Twenty-one crania (67-39:N1115-1135) from southerly shore
sand dunes, Kuai County.
One cranium (72-20:6792) from Kuai County.
Two crania (16-8:59647 and 59648) from an "ancient burial
place", Maui County
Twenty-one crania, two partial crania, and one partial
cranium together with fragmentary axial elements
(78-45:15267-15290) from Maui County.
One skeleton (80-25:23518), complete except for
fragmentary extremities, from an ancient burial place,
Maui County.
Five crania (16-8:59641-59645) from the beach beyond
Diamond Sand Dunes Hill, Oahu.
Six crania (23-5:60363-60368) found during the excavation
of a canal in Waikiki, Oahu.
Two almost complete skeletons and fragmentary postcranial
remains from four more individuals (23-5:60639-60372)
found while excavating for a sewer system in Honolulu
County, Oahu.
Three partial crania and six crania (36-4:N1324-1332)
from lava caves near Honolulu, Oahu.
Four crania and three fragmentary crania (85-7:37592-
37397a) that, from circumstantial documentary evidence,
may come from Oahu.
One cranium, one partial cranium and one partial cranium
with two associated femur (86-58:61492-61494) from
Honolulu, Oahu.
Twenty six crania (16-8:59646; 20-4:59931 and 59932; 50-
70:N7476; 59-27:N8615-N8620; 80-25:23503-23517),
fragmentary appendicular elements (27-5:60797), and
twenty two mandibles (80-25:23519) are attributed to
Hawai'i with no further information. Six of these crania
(59-27:N8615-N8620) came to the Peabody Museum from the
Warren Anatomical Museum.
Two mandibles and one cranium, with no accession numbers
and no accompanying documentation other than an
attribution to Hawai'i.
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 A. B.
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/Vol.59, No 39/Monday,February 28, 1994/Page9495&9496]
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