Notice2024-03570
Notice of Intended Repatriation: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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Published
February 22, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the State Historical Society of Wisconsin intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of both a sacred object and an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 36 (Thursday, February 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13371-13372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03570]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037403; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Madison, 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 State Historical Society of Wisconsin
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition
of both a sacred object and an object of cultural patrimony and that
has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after March 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jacqueline Pozza Reisner, Curator of American Indian
Collections, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 204 S. Thornton
Avenue, Madison, WI 53703, telephone (608) 263-3537, email
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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
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and additional information on
the determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the summary or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The one item that is both a sacred item and an object of cultural
patrimony is a pipe bowl and stem that was removed an unknown location,
probably in Wisconsin, possibly from Madeline Island. The State
Historical Society of Wisconsin's documentation does not indicate the
specific provenience nor provenance of this pipe and stem. The pipe and
stem are housed at the Society's Madeline Island Museum, which was
founded in 1958 by Bella and Leo Capser, who collected historical items
of Madeline Island and of broader Native American communities. The
Museum and the Capser's collections were donated to the State
Historical Society on August 27, 1968 with legal control of its
collections being turned over to the Society at that time. This 1968
agreement between Madeline Island Museum, Inc. and the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin does not prohibit it from following federal
mandates under NAGPRA. During this transfer, much of the documentation
noting provenience and provenance of the Museum's holdings had been
lost prior to that transfer. The collection was first cataloged by the
Society in 1983. Much of the original provenience and provenance
information is missing and is currently unknown.
The one sacred object/object of cultural patrimony is a pipe (bowl
and stem) that was assigned the catalog number MI1983.237.356 by the
Society. The bowl is made of catlinite and has lead inlay. The stem is
carved out of wood to have a spiral shape and is painted with blue-
green, yellow, and red pigments. An eagle and geometric figures are
engraved on the stem. Four feathers are suspended from the pipe stem
with strings of beads. The Society
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has no records indicating that this pipe and stem were exposed to any
hazardous substances while in the Society's stewardship.
Through consultation, it has been determined that the pipe and stem
are used in a multitude of contemporary ceremonies by traditional
religious leaders. They are also traditionally owned by an entire Tribe
and are passed onto caretakers. They are not individually owned and are
important to maintaining cultural and religious practices of the Tribe.
Determinations
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin has determined that:
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is, according to
the Native American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization, a specific ceremonial object needed by a
traditional Native American religious leader for present-day adherents
to practice traditional Native American religion, and has ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band,
clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision).
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item
described in this notice and the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior
Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin and
the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
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 March 25, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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. The State Historical Society
of Wisconsin is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice and to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 9, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-03570 Filed 2-21-24; 8:45 am]
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