Notice2023-28186
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
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Published
December 22, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Shelburne Museum intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural item was removed from an unknown location.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 245 (Friday, December 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 88644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28186]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037133; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Shelburne Museum,
Shelburne, VT
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Shelburne Museum intends to repatriate a
certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of
cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural
item was removed from an unknown location.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after January 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Alexander Kikutis, Shelburne Museum, P.O. Box 10, Shelburne,
VT 05482, telephone (802) 985-0871, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#64252f0d0f11100d1724370c01080611160a012911170111094a0b1603"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b9f8f2d0d2cccdd0caf9ead1dcd5dbcccbd7dcf4cccadcccd497d6cbde">[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
Shelburne 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 Shelburne
Museum.
Description
The one cultural item was removed from an unknown location. This
item of cultural patrimony is a Santa Ana Pueblo polychrome bowl (2023-
5.13) made circa 1820. In April 2023, Shelburne Museum received a
donation of Pueblo pottery. Teressa Perry, widow of Anthony Perry,
donated this item. Ms. Perry inherited this item from her husband,
Anthony Perry, in 2017. Mr. Perry purchased this from Sotheby's in
2007. It was previously sold at auction by Sotheby's again in 1989. It
is unknown who possessed it between the auctions. There is no record
prior to the 1989 Sotheby's auction.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural item in this notice is 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 information,
archeological information, geographical information, and historical
information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Shelburne Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item described above has 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 item and the Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after January 22, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Shelburne Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and
not competing requests. Shelburne Museum 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 13, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-28186 Filed 12-21-23; 8:45 am]
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