Notice2024-16703
Notice of Intended Repatriation: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Published
July 30, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations listed in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61136-61137]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16703]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038347; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met)
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of unassociated funerary objects or objects of cultural patrimony and
that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations listed in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after August 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer Day, NAGPRA Coordinator & Community Liaison, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028,
telephone (212) 396-2616, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#761c1318181f1013045812170f361b13021b030513031b58190411"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="59333c3737303f3c2b773d382019343c2d342c2a3c2c3477362b3e">[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
Met, 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 nine cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The five objects of cultural patrimony are one Raven
Rattle (Met acc. no. 1979.206.439), one Dagger (1979.206.884), two
Ceremonial Robes (Chilkat Blankets) (1979.206.1040 and 1986.476.8), and
one Headdress Frontlet (2011.154.37). The four unassociated funerary
objects are one necklace with
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pendants (1978.412.212), one amulet (1979.206.518), one transformation
mask (2002.602.2a-d), and one mask (1979.206.440). The latter mask was
obtained by Walter C. Waters in Wrangell, AK, under unknown conditions.
Consultation with the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian
Tribes indicate that these four items were shamanic items and so likely
would have been placed at the shaman's gravesite. Museum records
indicate that the cultural items are from Alaska; with the exceptions
indicated, the Met has no other geographical information about the
items.
Determinations
The Met has reasonably determined that:
<bullet> The four unassociated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with
or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance
of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> The five 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, and furthermore, these
objects are reasonably identified as being of such importance central
to the group that they cannot or could not be alienated, appropriated,
or conveyed by any person, including their caretaker, regardless of
whether the person is a member of the group, and they have been
considered inalienable by the group at the time the object was
separated from the group.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Central Council of the Tlingit &
Haida Indian Tribes.
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 August 29, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Met 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 Met 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: July 17, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-16703 Filed 7-29-24; 8:45 am]
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