Notice2025-14260
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Bruce Museum Greenwich, CT
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Published
July 29, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Bruce Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of sacred objects 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 143 (Tuesday, July 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35724-35725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14260]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6341; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040596; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Bruce Museum Greenwich, 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 Bruce Museum intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of sacred objects 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 August 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Kirsten J. Reinhardt, the Bruce
Museum, One Museum Drive Greenwich, CT 06830, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e9829b8c808781889b8d9da98b9b9c8a8c849c9a8c9c84c7869b8e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="771c05121e191f160513033715050214121a020412021a59180510">[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
Bruce 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 two cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The two sacred objects are a Makau (77.14.14
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Fishhook) and a P[omacr]haku Ku'i 'Ai (19117 Poi Pounder).
Makau Fishhook
A compound fishhook made from mammal bones. In 1977, a collection
of 19 objects, from a wide variety of tribal Nations, was donated by
Frederic E. Ossorio (1919-2005). Some objects in the collection were
reported as formerly part of the Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939)
collection; Beasley was a British collector. It is unknown how Ossoriao
came into possession of the objects. No potentially hazardous
substances have been used to treat the objects.
P[omacr]haku Ku'i 'Ai Poi Pounder
A pestle made of stone (p[omacr]haku) used to pound steamed taro
(kalo) into poi, steamed ulu (breadfruit) into poi and to prepare other
foods ('ai) through light pounding (ku'i). Mr. James B. Hatcher,
b.1906, became editor of the Honolulu Star Bulletin in 1929 and later
of the Hilo Tribune-Herald. He also wrote a tour book, ``Highlights of
Hawaii.'' The pestle is described as having been collected at Kalapana,
Hawaii in 1932. No potentially hazardous substances have been used to
treat the pounder.
Determinations
The Bruce Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The two sacred objects described in this notice are
specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> There is a connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and the Hui Iwi Kuamo'o.
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 August 28, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Bruce 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 Bruce Museums 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: July 9, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14260 Filed 7-28-25; 8:45 am]
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