Notice2023-28927
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Published
January 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) 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 Elmore County and Macon County, AL.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 399-400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28927]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037172; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Yale University
Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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 Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG)
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 Elmore County and Macon County,
AL.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after February 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Stephanie Wiles, Director, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111
Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510, telephone (203) 432-7802, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9fecebfaeff7fef1f6fab1e8f6f3faecdfe6fef3fab1fafbea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dcafa8b9acb4bdb2b5b9f2abb5b0b9af9ca5bdb0b9f2b9b8a9">[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 YUAG.
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 YUAG.
Description
Eight lots of cultural items were probably removed from several
locations in Elmore County and Macon County, AL, by Peter A. Brannon,
most likely between 1909 and 1934. Brannon was employed at the Alabama
Department of Archives and History and donated the cultural items to
YUAG in 1935. Of the eight lots of unassociated funerary objects, seven
were probably removed from Elmore County and include 171 ceramic and
glass beads from the Upper Creek Town Fusihatchi. Three bronze
ornaments and 106 glass and ceramic beads were probably removed from
the Upper Creek Town Huithlewalli. Three metal ring fragments and 224
glass beads were probably removed from Tallapoosa Swamp at Fort
Toulouse. Forty-five glass and ceramic beads were probably removed from
the Tallapoosa River area. One lot of 1,000 glass beads was probably
removed from the Upper Creek Town Thlopthlocco (Laplako) in Macon
County.
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 information,
archeological information, and geographical information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, YUAG has determined
that:
<bullet> The eight lots of 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 specific burial sites of Native American individuals.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and The Muscogee
(Creek) Nation.
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
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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 February 2, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, YUAG 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. YUAG 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. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-28927 Filed 1-2-24; 8:45 am]
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