Notice2025-10592
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
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Published
June 11, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Bryn Mawr 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 111 (Wednesday, June 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24662-24663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10592]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040322; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Bryn Mawr 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 July 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Marianne Weldon, Bryn
Mawr College, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c1acb6a4ada5aeaf81a3b3b8afaca0b6b3efa4a5b4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e18c96848d858e8fa18393988f8c809693cf848594">[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 Bryn
Mawr College, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. In the late
1800s, Wallace R. Andrus removed the individual and associated funerary
objects from east of the Cascades in Washington State while surveying
for the development of the North Pacific Railway. On an unknown date,
the individual and associated funerary objects were transferred to his
son, Howard Andrus, before being donated to the College as a gift from
Frederica de Laguna, Class of 1927, Professor of Anthropology at Bryn
Mawr College and granddaughter of Wallace Andrus. The 34 associated
funerary objects are one lot of points, bunts, sherds, and fragments;
one metal coin; five lots of points; one lot of glass beads on a
string; five projectile points; four lots of stone fragments; one lot
of worked stone fragments; one lot of projectile points and bunts; one
lot of cores and fragments; one fragment; two striated rocks or
petrified wood; one lot of glass beads; one lot of beads or possible
seed pods; two canine teeth of a terrestrial carnivore; one shell
amulet or disc; two lots of bone beads; two lots of shell beads; one
heavily worked long bone fragment; and one lot of glass fragments.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
Bryn Mawr College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 34 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and Coeur
D'Alene Tribe; Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation; Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation;
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation; Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation; Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon; Kalispel Indian Community of the
Kalispel Reservation; Kootenai Tribe of Idaho; Nez Perce Tribe; and the
Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation.
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, and, if joined to a request
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the Wanapum Band of Priest
Rapids, a non-federally recognized Indian group.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows,
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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 human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 11, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, Bryn Mawr 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. Bryn Mawr 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: May 27, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-10592 Filed 6-10-25; 8:45 am]
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