Notice2025-06633
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY
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Published
April 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 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 90, Number 74 (Friday, April 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16533-16534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06633]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039943; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Buffalo Society of Natural
Sciences, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY
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 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
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 May 19, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Kathryn H. Leacock, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,
Buffalo Museum of Science, 1020 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14211,
telephone (716) 896-5200, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5d3631383c3e323e361d2e3e3438333e383f283b3b73322f3a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a3c8cfc6c2c0ccc0c8e3d0c0cac6cdc0c6c1d6c5c58dccd1c4">[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
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 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 item is known as catalog number C478.
Museum catalog records indicate this is a ceramic vessel with a long
neck and indentations on the shoulder. The ceramic is shell tempered.
This funerary object was known to be part of a larger burial-ceremonial
complex at Moundville, in Hale and Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama.
Moundville is culturally affiliated to the Muskogean language speaking
Tribes. Accession records indicate that C478 was removed from Mound D
at Moundville in Hale County Alabama. Collected by Chauncey W. Riggs
and acquired by the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences in 1891.
Determinations
The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary object 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 Choctaw Nation of 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 May 19, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
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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 Buffalo Society of
Natural Sciences 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: April 8, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-06633 Filed 4-17-25; 8:45 am]
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