Notice2025-08480
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Published
May 14, 2025
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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 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 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08480]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040126; 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 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 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
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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, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. This ancestor
was located during a 2022 internal NAGPRA review conducted at Dartmouth
College. ``AL-6, Grave 1'' was written on the cranium. Archival
research conducted by Hood Museum of Art staff determined this ancestor
is likely to have been removed from ``Melton Mound 2,'' a site
associated with the St. Johns culture of Central and Eastern Florida.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. This ancestor
is represented by a large container of sand removed from Hernandez
Mound in Ormond, Florida, a location that is a known funerary site. It
is unclear who removed this ancestor from the mound or when, but the
ancestor was accessioned into the collections of Dartmouth College in
1927.
Human remains representing, at least, three individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. These ancestors
entered the collections at Dartmouth College at some point prior to
1913. Museum documents identify them as coming from a ``Burial Mound
near Micco, Florida.'' It is not known who removed the ancestors from
this site or at what time, nor is it known who brought them to
Dartmouth College.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The 41 associated funerary objects are worked and unworked
shells, stone implements, and soil. This ancestor and their associated
funerary objects were removed from the ``Mysterious Island'' near
Sanibel, Florida by Glover Street Hastings III and G.J. Kessen from a
``cremation pit'' in 1940. Hastings donated the ancestral remains and
associated funerary objects to Dartmouth College in 1940.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The five associated funerary objects are a shell, punches,
and a hammerstone. This ancestor was collected from ``Galt Key,''
Florida, which is presumed to be Gault Island, by Glover Street
Hastings III. This ancestor was bequeathed to Dartmouth College by
Hastings' daughter, Carlena H. Redfield, in 1981.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. This ancestor
was removed from an unspecified site in Florida by Fred Chaffee and was
donated to the Dartmouth College Museum by his son, R.G. Chaffee, in
March 1935.
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 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of eight individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 46 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 Miccosukee
Tribe of Indians; Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Seminole Tribe of
Florida; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and The Seminole Nation of
Oklahoma.
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 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 and associated funerary objects 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. 2025-08480 Filed 5-13-25; 8:45 am]
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