Notice2025-11007
Notice of Intended Repatriation: North Carolina State University, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC
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Published
June 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the North Carolina State University, Gregg Museum of Art & Design (Gregg Museum) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25364-25365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11007]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040369; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: North Carolina State University,
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC
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 North Carolina State University, Gregg
Museum of Art & Design (Gregg Museum) intends to repatriate certain
cultural items that meet the definition of sacred objects or objects of
cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after July 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Mary Hauser, North Carolina State
University, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, 1903 Hillsborough St. Campus
Box 7330, Raleigh, NC 27695, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d3beb6bbb2a6a0b6a193bdb0a0a6fdb6b7a6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b0ddd5d8d1c5c3d5c2f0ded3c3c59ed5d4c5">[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
Gregg Museum, 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 two cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The one sacred object is a men's shirt. The shirt has leather fringe
along sides and underside of arms. There are bands of beading along the
outside of arms and at each side of the front and back torso.
Additional sections of beadwork are at the upper center front and back.
There is blue paint on the sleeves and on the front and back torso.
This item came to the Gregg Museum as a part of an estate transfer from
Chinqua-Penn, an estate in Reidsville, Rockingham County, NC. The
owners of this estate traveled extensively, collecting artifacts from
around the world. After their deaths the estate was managed first by
the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and then by North Carolina
State University in the mid-1980s. After Chinqua-Penn's sale to Calvin
Phelps in 2006, artifacts that became on loan to the Gallery of Art &
Design (now Gregg Museum) since 2003 were legally transferred to the
collection of the Gregg Museum. Gregg Museum records indicate no known
hazardous substances.
The one object of cultural patrimony is a smudge fan, c.1900.
According to information from the collector Emma Hanford Smith as
shared by the donor of the collection, this smudge fan was collected by
Dr. E.R. Hodge, Apache Indian, 1912. It has a leather beaded handle
with a cross decoration and eagle feather leaf. Upon consultation with
tribal authorities, it was identified as most likely from a Northern
Plains Indian Tribe, like Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) or Tsisista and
Hinono'ei (Cheyenne-Arapaho) or maybe Apsaalooke (Crow), Indigenous
American. Gregg Museum
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records indicate no known hazardous substances.
Determinations
The Gregg Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The one sacred object described in this notice is a
specific ceremonial object needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> The one object of cultural patrimony described in this
notice has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group, including any constituent sub-
group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other
subdivision), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of
the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana.
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 July 16, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Gregg Museum 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 Gregg Museum 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: June 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11007 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am]
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