Notice2022-26373
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI
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Published
December 5, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from the Moundville archeological site (1TU500), in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 232 (Monday, December 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26373]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034953; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College,
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Beloit College, Logan Museum of
Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that
meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from the
Moundville archeological site (1TU500), in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after January 4, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Nicolette B. Meister, Beloit College, Logan Museum of
Anthropology, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, telephone (608)
363-2305, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#48252d213b3c2d3a26082a2d2427213c662d2c3d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="58353d312b2c3d2a36183a3d3437312c763d3c2d">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
LMA. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records held by the LMA.
Description
In 1905 or 1906, two funerary objects were removed from a burial at
the Moundville archeological site by Clarence Bloomfield Moore. The LMA
has no knowledge concerning the whereabouts of the human remains in the
burial. On an unknown date, the LMA acquired these items from Moore.
The unassociated funerary objects are one reconstructed and shell
tempered Bell Plain ceramic bowl (16097) and a partially reconstructed
and incomplete shell tempered Lamar Incised possible duck effigy bowl
(16099). The Bell Plain bowl was recovered from the ground north of
Mound C and was identified as Vessel No. 4 by Moore. The Lamar Incised
bowl was recovered from the ground south of Mound D and were identified
as Vessel No. 25 by Moore.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: linguistic, oral
traditional, geographical, kinship, biological, archeological,
historical, and anthropological. In addition, the Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee has found, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that a cultural affiliation exists
between human remains and funerary objects originating from, and
adjacent to, the Moundville archeological site (1TU500) and the
present-day Muskogean-speaking Indian Tribes. This finding was
published in the Federal Register on February 1, 2022.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the LMA has determined that:
<bullet> The two cultural items objects 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and Muskogean-speaking
Indian Tribes that include the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
(previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Coushatta
Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band of Choctaw Indians; Seminole Tribe of
Florida (previously listed as Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big
Cypress,
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Brighton, Hollywood, & Tampa Reservations)); The Chickasaw Nation; The
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and The
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after January 4, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the LMA must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The LMA is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: November 23, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-26373 Filed 12-2-22; 8:45 am]
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