Notice2025-05605
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
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Published
April 2, 2025
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 a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object 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 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14458-14459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05605]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039810; 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 a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an
object 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 item in this notice may occur on or
after May 2, 2025.
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
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#22434a4d4d544750624f564a4d4e5b4d49470c474657"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c0a1a8afafb6a5b280adb4a8afacb9afaba5eea5a4b5">[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
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
One cultural item has been requested for repatriation. The object
of cultural patrimony is a beaded jacket.
The object in this notice is 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.
The jacket in the Skinner Museum collection is imbued with ongoing
historical, traditional, and/or cultural importance to the Flandreau
Santee Sioux Tribe. The jacket is embroidered with a widely practiced
style of beadwork using culturally significant colors and designs.
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Based on the above definitions and a general knowledge of these
objects possessing cultural significance, the claim for repatriation to
the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe will be honored.
Determinations
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The one object of cultural patrimony described in this
notice 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), 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 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 May 2, 2025. 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 item 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: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05605 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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