Notice2025-05814
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Middleton Place Foundation, Charleston, SC
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Published
April 4, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Middleton Place Foundation intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects 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 64 (Friday, April 4, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 14861]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05814]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039844; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Middleton Place Foundation,
Charleston, SC
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 Middleton Place Foundation intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects 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 5, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Jeff Neale, Middleton Place Foundation, 4300 Ashley River
Road, Charleston, SC 29414, telephone (843) 266-7491, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#640e0a0105080124090d00000801100b0a14080507014a0b1603"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bed4d0dbdfd2dbfed3d7dadad2dbcad1d0ced2dfdddb90d1ccd9">[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
Middleton Place Foundation, 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 505 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The 505 unassociated funerary objects are ceramic beads. These beads
were discovered in a cardboard box in a storage locker at Middleton
Place, located in Dorchester County, SC. Written on a piece of paper
accompanying the beads was the following: ``437 White Beads/68 Blue and
Black/and assorted broken beads. Found in Indian Burial Rounds (sic) at
Middleton Place.'' There is no accession or catalog number; no date of
discovery; and no exact location where they were found. To the best of
our knowledge, these objects have not been treated with any hazardous
substance.
Determinations
The Middleton Place Foundation has determined that:
<bullet> The 505 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> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Catawba Indian Nation.
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 5, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Middleton Place Foundation 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 Middleton Place
Foundation 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 26, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05814 Filed 4-3-25; 8:45 am]
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