Notice2025-12837
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
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Published
July 10, 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 associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 130 (Thursday, July 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 30665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12837]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040482; 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 associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a
cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after August 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the 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#402d37252c242f2e002232392e2d2137326e252435"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e08d97858c848f8ea08292998e8d819792ce858495">[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, five associated funerary
objects have been reasonably identified. The associated funerary
objects are five burial mat fragments that were removed from either
Kagamil Island or Ship Rock Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
They were removed by Alan May, an amateur archaeologist who
participated in three seasons of archaeological fieldwork in the
Aleutian Islands from 1936 to 1938 under the direction of Ale[scaron]
Hrdli[ccaron]ka for the Smithsonian Institution. Sometime in the 1930s,
May transferred the items to Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004), a
Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. de Laguna later
donated the associated funerary objects to Bryn Mawr College on an
unknown date. Bryn Mawr College has no knowledge or record of the
presence of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat the
associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
Bryn Mawr College has determined that:
<bullet> The five 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 associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the Native Village of
Nikolski.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after August 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 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: June 25, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-12837 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
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