Notice2022-08601
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Putnam Museum and Science Center, Davenport, IA
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Published
April 22, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
The Putnam Museum and Science Center, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to the Putnam Museum and Science Center. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 78 (Friday, April 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 24195]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08601]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033739; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Putnam Museum and
Science Center, Davenport, IA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Putnam Museum and Science Center, in consultation with the
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has
determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items
should submit a written request to the Putnam Museum and Science
Center. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of
the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to the Putnam Museum and Science
Center at the address in this notice by May 23, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina Kastell, Putnam Museum and
Science Center, 1717 W 12th Street, Davenport, IA 52804, telephone
(563) 336-7293, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fb98909a888f9e9797bb8b8e8f959a96d594899c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="791a12180a0d1c151539090c0d17181457160b1e">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the
control of the Putnam Museum and Science Center, Davenport, IA, that
meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C.
3001.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
Sometime in the 1880s, six cultural items were removed from the
Mississippi Valley in AL and MS. Captain W.P. Hall excavated these
items. Subsequently, Miss Elizabeth Duncan Putnam donated these items
to the museum. The six unassociated funerary objects are two Bell Plain
Bowls, one miniature bowl, one animal effigy sherd, one ear plug, and
one pipe fragment.
These items have been determined to derive from Mississippian
burial mounds in AL and MS. Based on this geographical and
archeological information, they are connected to The Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma.
Determinations Made by the Putnam Museum and Science Center
Officials of the Putnam Museum and Science Center have determined
that:
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the six cultural items
described above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or
near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of
the death rite or ceremony and are believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native
American individual.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim
these cultural items should submit a written request with information
in support of the claim to Christina Kastell, Putnam Museum and Science
Center, 1717 W 12th Street, Davenport, IA 52804, telephone (563) 336-
7293, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#97f4fcf6e4e3f2fbfbd7e7e2e3f9f6fab9f8e5f0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f2c242e3c3b2a23230f3f3a3b212e2261203d28">[email protected]</span></a>, by May 23, 2022. After that date, if
no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the
unassociated funerary objects to The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma may
proceed.
The Putnam Museum and Science Center is responsible for notifying
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has been published.
Dated: April 13, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-08601 Filed 4-21-22; 8:45 am]
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