Notice2024-18964
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
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Published
August 23, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 164 (Friday, August 23, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68190-68191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-18964]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038566; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
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 Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin
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College intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the
definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 September 23, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Amy Margaris, Oberlin College, Department of
Anthropology, King Building, 10 N Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074,
telephone (440) 775-5173, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a6c7cbdf88cbc7d4c1c7d4cfd5e6c9c4c3d4cacfc888c3c2d3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="690804104704081b0e081b001a29060b0c1b050007470c0d1c">[email protected]</span></a> and Dr. Andria
Derstine, John G.W. Cowles Director, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
College, 87 N Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, telephone (440) 775-6872,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#53323d37213a327d37362120273a3d36133c3136213f3a3d7d363726"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="44252a20362d256a20213637302d2a21042b262136282d2a6a212031">[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
Oberlin College, 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 unassociated funerary object is a ceramic vessel. The vessel
(object number 1920.8, ``Water Bottle in the Shape of a Bird'') is
housed in the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) on the campus of Oberlin
College and was attributed in some AMAM records as Peruvian
(Chim[uacute]) in origin. However, other AMAM records describe it as
``American Indian, 1100-1400, Gift of Mrs. H.H. Wright, 1920'' which
accords with a paper label on the vessel bottom that reads ``This Water
Jar was taken from a [. . .] grave in Prehistoric gravey [. . .,
presumably ``graveyard''] S of Nashville--Aug. 1885. H.'' [. . .,
presumably H.H. Wright]. Herbert H. Wright was an 1873 graduate of
Oberlin College who served as professor of mathematics and music at
Fisk University in Nashville, TN, and is described in Antiquities of
Tennessee (Gates P. Thruston, 1897) as having discovered a bird-shaped
vessel in the Noel Cemetery. Noel Cemetery (40DV3) in Davidson County,
TN, is a well-documented Native American burial site dating to the
Mississippian period. It is not known if any potentially hazardous
substances were used to treat this cultural item.
Determinations
Oberlin College has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary object described in this
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or
near human remains, and is 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 an
Indian Tribe. The unassociated funerary object has been identified by a
preponderance of the evidence as removed from a specific burial site
with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item
described in this notice and the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma.
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 September 23, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Oberlin College 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. Oberlin College 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: August 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-18964 Filed 8-22-24; 8:45 am]
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