Notice2025-06203
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce Museum, Inc., Greenwich, CT
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Published
April 11, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Bruce Museum has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 69 (Friday, April 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15477-15478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06203]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039887; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce Museum, Inc., Greenwich, CT
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 Bruce Museum has completed an inventory
of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a
cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after May 12, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Kirsten J. Reinhardt, Bruce Museum, Inc., 1 Museum Drive,
Greenwich, CT 06830, telephone (203) 413-6770, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#68031a0d010600091a0c1c280a1a1d0b0d051d1b0d1d0546071a0f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b0dbc2d5d9ded8d1c2d4c4f0d2c2c5d3d5ddc5c3d5c5dd9edfc2d7">[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
Bruce Museum, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
The two associated funerary objects are two nodules of natural,
unground, red/orange ochre. The two associated funerary objects were
removed by an unknown person from Native American graves at Fort
Ticonderoga, Essex County, NY before 1940 and donated to the Bruce in
1940 by Mr. Stirling Martin. Cultural Affiliation has been determined
to be with the Mohican and/or Lenape-Munsee people as per the
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin. The location and temporal
period of the graves is unknown. It is known that in 1757,
approximately 8,000 French, Canadian, and Native Americans, including
members of the Mohican Stockbridge Militia and Lenape soldiers,
combined to fight the British at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and
Indian War. According to THPO Bonney Hartley of the Stockbridge-Munsee
Community, the
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location, Essex County, NY, is within the known territory of Mohican
peoples. The Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin is a federally
recognized Tribe of both Mohican and Munsee Lenape people. No treatment
with hazardous material has been performed.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the result of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The Bruce Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The two objects described in this notice are 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 connection between the associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Stockbridge Munsee Community,
Wisconsin.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative
identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 12, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the Bruce Museum must determine
the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for
joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Bruce Museum is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: April 1, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-06203 Filed 4-10-25; 8:45 am]
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