Notice2023-04893
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono, ME
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Published
March 10, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hudson Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Cattaraugus County, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15075-15076]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04893]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035440; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hudson Museum,
University of Maine, Orono, ME
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hudson Museum intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items
were removed from Cattaraugus County, NY.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after April 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Amber Sky Heller, Registrar, Hudson Museum, University of
Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono, ME 04469, telephone
(207) 581-1902, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f59498979087db869e8cdb9d9099999087b598949c9b90db909180"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6a0b07080f184419011344020f06060f182a070b03040f440f0e1f">[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
Hudson Museum. 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 Hudson
Museum.
Description
The three cultural items were removed from Cattaraugus County, NY.
Sometime in the 1960s, three masks were removed from a long house on
the Allegheny Reservation prior to the building's inundation by the
Kinzua Dam. In 1969, the three masks were purchased by the University
of Maine from Sheldon M. Tucker, M.D., of Houston, TX. Dr. Richard
Emerick, founding Director, coordinated the purchase of the masks for
the University's Anthropology Museum, which became the Hudson Museum in
1986. The three objects of cultural patrimony are a Wolf Clan Mask
(HM4838), a Consolation Mask (HM4839), and a New Year's Ceremonial Mask
(HM4840).
In March of 2020, the Hudson Museum began consultation with Dr. Joe
Stahlman, Director of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum and Tribal
Historic Preservation Officer for the Seneca Nation of Indians.
Subsequently, the Hudson Museum determined that the masks are
culturally affiliated with the Coldspring Longhouse of the Seneca
Nation of Indians.
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: anthropological,
geographical, historical, and other relevant information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Hudson Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The three cultural items described above have ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an
individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Seneca Nation
of Indians.
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 April 10, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Hudson Museum 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 Hudson Museum is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: March 1, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-04893 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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