Notice2024-07711
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
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Published
April 11, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 71 (Thursday, April 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25664-25665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07711]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037712; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Mount Holyoke College Art
Museum, South Hadley, MA
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 Mount Holyoke College Art Museum intends
to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of sacred
objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after May 13, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Abigail Hoover, Associate Director of Registration and
Collections, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Lower Lake Road, South
Hadley, MA 01075, telephone (413) 538-2492, 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
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 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 11 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The seven sacred objects consist of catlinite pipe bowls and pipe
stems. The four objects of cultural patrimony include a pair of
gauntlet gloves, a jacket, a quiver, and a bow case.
Each of the 11 cultural objects in this notice are part of the
Joseph Allen Skinner Museum collection, which was donated to the
Trustees of Mount Holyoke College by Skinner after his death in 1946.
Like many of the objects in the Skinner collection, there is no extant
provenance information and it is unclear when these objects were
acquired, though pictures show the display of these objects by Skinner
as early as 1934.
Catlinite pipes are pipes made of catlinite, a type of mudstone
that can only be found in parts of southwest Minnesota, southeastern
South Dakota, and northwest Iowa, adjacent to the site of Pipestone
National Monument. Catlinite has been used to make ceremonial pipes
important to the religious practices of Indigenous peoples of the Great
Plains for over 3,000 years. These sacred pipes have been used in
prayer and religious ceremonies by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe and
possess deep spiritual significance.
The quiver and bow case, jacket, and gauntlet gloves in the Skinner
Museum collection are imbued with ongoing historical, traditional, and/
or cultural importance to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. The quiver
and bow case are decorated with the spiritually significant practice of
quillwork, the jacket is embroidered with beadwork using culturally
significant colors and designs, and the gauntlet gloves possess floral
beadwork that is particularly connected to the history and geography of
the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe.
Based on the above definitions and a general knowledge of these
objects possessing both ceremonial, spiritual, and cultural
significance, the claim for repatriation to the Flandreau Santee Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota will be honored.
Determinations
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The seven sacred objects described in this notice are
specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant,
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Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> The four objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have 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), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of
South Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under 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 May 13, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Mount Holyoke College Art 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 Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum 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: April 2, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-07711 Filed 4-10-24; 8:45 am]
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