Notice2025-07423
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce Museum, Inc., Greenwich, CT
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Published
April 30, 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 human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17969-17970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07423]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040016; 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 human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined
that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and
associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Kirsten J. Reinhardt, Bruce Museum, Inc., 1 Museum Drive,
Greenwich, CT 06830, telephone (203) 413-06779, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dcb7aeb9b5b2b4bdaeb8a89cbeaea9bfb9b1a9afb9a9b1f2b3aebb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="640f16010d0a0c051600102406161107010911170111094a0b1603">[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
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The two associated funerary objects are two sea mammal
bones, possibly manatee phalanges. All were recovered from a sand mound
burial in 1894 or 1895 on the east shore of Terra Ceia Bay, in Manatee
County, Florida. Age and sex unknown. Donated to the Bruce in 1938 by
Wilbur Smith. Related to and recovered from the same burial mound as
the Ancestor repatriated to the Seminole in 2021. These three objects
were not located in 2021 and were identified during a later collection
move/rehousing project. The known historical presence of the Seminole
Tribe of Florida in the area now known as the State of Florida,
combined with the established legal and archaeological information,
provides a reasonable basis upon which the Bruce Museum has made the
determination that the Seminole Tribe of Florida has established, with
acceptable evidence, cultural affiliation with a minimum of one
individual and two AFOs having been removed from the undocumented Terra
Ceia Bay Shore site located in Seminole County, Florida. No treatment
with hazardous material has been performed.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Bruce Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<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 human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Seminole
Tribe of Florida.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
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 human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 30,
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 human remains and
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
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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 15, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-07423 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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