Notice2025-14155
Notice of Inventory Completion: Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
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Published
July 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Shelburne Museum 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 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35553-35554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14155]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6339; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040528; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
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 Shelburne Museum 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 August 27, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Alexander Kikutis,
Shelburne Museum, P.O. Box 10, Shelburne, Vermont 05482, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#432d222433312203302b262f2136312d262e363026362e6d2c3124"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81efe0e6f1f3e0c1f2e9e4ede3f4f3efe4ecf4f2e4f4ecafeef3e6">[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
Shelburne Museum, 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, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The Ancestor was
removed from an unknown location, possibly New York, by an unknown
individual. In 1960, the Ancestor was given to the Shelburne Museum by
Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Allison in honor of Mrs. William T. Beach. In
December 2024, the Ancestor was identified during a collections
assessment. The Allison family were friends with the Beach family.
Willian N. Beach (1873-1955) was an avid sportsman who travelled widely
for hunting. Both the Allison and Beach family had homes in Great Neck,
Long Island, NY. The Beach family was also close with the Webb family,
who owned property in the Adirondacks. Based on this information, it is
possible the Ancestor was removed from New York. The 13 associated
funerary objects are one lot obsidian points, darts, and modified
flakes, one lot worked lithic debitage, one lot ground stone tools, one
animal bone awl, one lot faunal fragments, one lot missed material, one
lot wood fragments with possible paint residue, one staurolite
cruciform (fairy stone cross), one lot lithic points, one lot
unclassified lithics, one agate, one corrugated pot sherd, and one
rectangular rounded pot sherd.
The Shelburne Museum of has no knowledge or record of any
potentially hazardous substances being used to treat the human remains
or associated funerary objects.
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.
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Determinations
The Shelburne Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 13 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 human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Cayuga
Nation; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Oneida
Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk
Tribe; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shinnecock
Indian Nation; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band
of Seneca; and the Tuscarora Nation.
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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 27, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Shelburne Museum
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 Shelburne Museum 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: July 1, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14155 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
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