Notice2024-26449
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Ball State University, Muncie, IN
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Published
November 14, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Ball State University (BSU) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 220 (Thursday, November 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 90049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26449]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039026; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Ball State University, Muncie,
IN
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Ball State University (BSU) intends to
repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an
unassociated funerary object 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 December 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Chyan Gilaspy, Ball State University, Applied Anthropology
Laboratories, 2000 W Riverside Avenue, Muncie, IN 47306, telephone
(765) 285-5362, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3b757a7c6b697a7b59484e155e5f4e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="357b7472656774755746401b505140">[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 BSU
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 an effigy vessel or hooded
water bottle (listed as animal-shaped vessel in BSU records). The item
was donated to BSU by a private donor in 1953. Based on consultation,
available documentation, and archaeological evidence pertaining to
similar funerary objects, we conclude that this cultural item was
likely removed from an ancestral Osage burial at an unrecorded date and
location prior to 1953. There are no institutional records indicating
the presence of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat the
cultural item.
Determinations
BSU has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary object described in this
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or
near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of
the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item
described in this notice and The Osage Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after December 16, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, BSU 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 BSU 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: November 5, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-26449 Filed 11-13-24; 8:45 am]
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