Notice2025-11149
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
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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 Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that has 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 25641-25642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11149]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040411; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
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 Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) intends to
repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an
object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after July 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural item in this notice to Kelly Ferguson, NAGPRA Project Manager,
Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bcd7d9d0d0c5e3dad9cedbc9cfd3d2fcccd9d192d3cedb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1c7779707065437a796e7b696f73725c6c797132736e7b">[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
Peabody Essex 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 one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The object of cultural patrimony is an adze blade preform from Mauna
Kea Quarry on the Island of Hawaii. The adze blade was collected by
Marcia Brown Bishop during the period of 1922 and 1937 when she was
living in Hawaii. Bishop transferred the adze blade to the Peabody
Museum of Salem (now Peabody Essex Museum) on deposit in 1938 and
subsequently sold the blade to the museum in 1966. The museum has no
record of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat this
cultural item.
Determinations
The Peabody Essex Museum has determined that:
<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 connection between the cultural item described
in this notice and Protect Keopuka Ohana.
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Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after July 17, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Peabody Essex Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Peabody Essex 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 11, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11149 Filed 6-16-25; 8:45 am]
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