Notice2025-11136
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Gunn Memorial Library and Museum, Washington, CT
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Published
June 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 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 115 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25624-25625]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11136]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040362; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Gunn Memorial Library and
Museum, Washington, CT
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 Gunn Memorial Library and Museum intends
to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
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 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Corinne Tabolt, Collections Manager,
Gunn Memorial Library and Museum, 5 Wykeham Road, Washington, CT 06793,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#20435441424f4c546047554e4e4c4942524152590e4f5247"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="02617663606d6e764265776c6c6e6b607063707b2c6d7065">[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
Gunn Memorial Library and 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
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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of four cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The four objects of cultural patrimony are baskets, fire
sticks, and a comb. Items are from the Northwestern coast/Washington
region which were collected then given to Senator Orville H. Platt and
his wife over the course of twenty years while he was a member of the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs from 1879-1905. Platt's wife,
Jeannie, then donated the items to the Museum in 1908, as the first
curator. The items were then given on permanent loan to the Institute
of American Indian Studies in 1981. The Museum records indicate no
known hazardous substances.
Determinations
The Gunn Memorial Library and Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The four objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have 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 connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe.
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 17, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Gunn Memorial Library and 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 Gunn Memorial Library
and 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. 2025-11136 Filed 6-16-25; 8:45 am]
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