Notice2025-08479
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Published
May 14, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20496-20497]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08479]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040125; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH
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 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after June 13, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Jami C. Powell, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs &
Curator of Indigenous Art, Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock Street,
Hanover, NH 03755, telephone (603) 646-2822, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#244c4b4b400a4a45435456456440455650494b51504c0a414051"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b2daddddd69cdcd3d5c2c0d3f2d6d3c0c6dfddc7c6da9cd7d6c7">[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
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 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, seven individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. These ancestors
were removed from Hood's landing, 15 miles south of Kingston in Roane
County, Tennessee by Professor Robert Bear. In a group of five mounds,
these ancestors were removed from ``terrace no. 1'' in the southeast
mound, near a cremation site. There were no artifacts removed from the
mound. It is unclear when the ancestors were removed from the mound,
but they were acquired by Dartmouth College sometime around 1934 and
were formally catalogued and added to the College's collections in
1939.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural
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affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical location or
acquisition history of the human remains described in this notice.
Determinations
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of seven individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians; The Chickasaw Nation; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after June 13, 2025. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
College must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Hood Museum
of Art, Dartmouth College 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 30, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08479 Filed 5-13-25; 8:45 am]
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