Notice2025-11016
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Published
June 16, 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 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 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25366-25367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11016]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040372; 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 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 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Jami C. Powell,
Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art,
Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, NH 03755, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7b1314141f55151a1c0b091a3b1f1a090f16140e0f13551e1f0e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="afc7c0c0cb81c1cec8dfddceefcbcedddbc2c0dadbc781cacbda">[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, two individuals have been
identified. The 34 associated funerary objects are pottery sherds.
These ancestors were removed from El Coronado Ranch (about 50 miles
north of Douglas) in Cochise County, Arizona in August of 1935 by a
Dartmouth College Museum expedition. The ancestors were added to the
College's collections upon their arrival.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The one associated funerary object is a red cotton shirt
which was wrapped around the ancestor. This ancestor was removed from a
cave by an unknown individual near Beaver Creek (a branch of the Verde
River), south of Flagstaff, AZ. At some point, this ancestor came to
Richard Leroy of Scottsdale, AZ, who gave the ancestor to the Dartmouth
College Museum through the Museum Shop of the Museum of Northern
Arizona.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been
identified. The one associated funerary object is a segment of faunal
bone. This ancestor was removed from Spruce Tree House at Mesa Verde in
Montezuma County, Colorado. It is unclear who or when this ancestor was
removed, but they were donated to Dartmouth College by Emily W. and
George H. Browne in 1946.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The 66 associated funerary objects are pottery sherds. This
ancestor and their belongings were removed from Pecos Ruin in Miguel
County, New Mexico in 1921. This individual and their belongings were
obtained by Emily W. and George H. Browne of Cambridge, Massachusetts
and were donated to Dartmouth College in 1942 by Emily Browne's sister,
Ellen A. Webster.
Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. These ancestors
were collected at some point in the 1920s at ``Aztec or Pecos'' by
George H. Browne of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Browne donated the
ancestors to Dartmouth College in 1942.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been
identified. The five associated funerary objects are pottery sherds and
one faunal (animal) bone. This ancestor and their belongings were
surface collected by J.D. Warren on April 28, 1922, when they were
washed out of a small canyon with ``old ruins'' called ``Squaw
Canyon.'' This is near Dove Creek in Dolores Country, Colorado. The
ancestors and their belongings were transferred to George H. Browne of
Cambridge, Massachusetts on an unknown date, who then donated the
ancestor and their belongings to Dartmouth College in 1942.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been
identified. The one associated funerary object is one lot of melted
beads. This ancestor and associated funerary objects appear to have
been cremated and are comingled. The beads are made of glass and appear
to have been blue, red, and white. Part of the beads are melted so
thoroughly that it is difficult to tell what the material is, as well
as if there are any other materials melted into the object. The beads
were removed by an unknown individual, likely around 1904, from
``Mohave,'' in Arizona. It is unclear if this refers to the tribal
nation or the county. This ancestor was donated to Dartmouth College's
collections by Frank and Clara Churchill in 1946.
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 has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of nine individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 108 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 Ak-Chin
Indian Community; Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Colorado River Indian
Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona and
California; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Fort Mohave Indian
Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of
Oklahoma; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation,
Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Hualapai
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico;
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Navajo
Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah;
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Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of
Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation,
Arizona; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation,
Arizona; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona;
Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; White Mountain Apache Tribe
of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the
Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe;
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico.
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 July 16,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 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, Hanover, NH 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: June 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11016 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am]
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