Notice2025-15850
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
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Published
August 20, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), The Newark Museum of Art 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 159 (Wednesday, August 20, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40645-40646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15850]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6426; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040833; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Newark Museum of Art, Newark,
NJ
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 Newark Museum of Art 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 September 19, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Amber Woods Germano,
Senior Registrar, The Newark Museum of Art, 49 Washington Street,
Newark, NJ 07102, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7b1a1c1e09161a15143b151e0c1a0910160e081e0e161a090f5514091c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="17767072657a7679785779726076657c7a626472627a76656339786570">[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
Newark Museum of Art, and additional information on the determinations
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in
its inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing at least, two individuals have been
identified.
A human lower jawbone of unknown age was anonymously donated to the
Museum in 1931. According to Museum records, the human remains were
removed from the site of the Boonton Dam in Boonton, NJ.
Additionally, a donation of human bone fragments representing at
least one individual and 58 associated funerary objects were donated to
the Museum by Emily E. Dexter in June of 1926.
The ancestral remains donated by Emily E. Dexter are of unknown age
and according to Museum records were taken from ``graves at To-wan-da,
Pennsylvania.'' The 58 associated funerary objects were donated to the
Museum by Emily Dexter with the ancestral remains.
The 58 associated funerary objects are: six fragments of clam
shells; a flat basalt rock sinker for fishing with notches cut to hold
cord, rounded on ends; a flint leaf-shaped arrowhead; a potsherd
blackened on both sides and decorated with incised dots forming lines;
a potsherd of tan colored clay on one side, black on the other side,
with quartz pebbles throughout and a rough linear design on the tan
side; 44 shards of pottery; a black wood ring; a bright orange stone
fragment; a flat slab of sandstone with parallel sides and curved ends;
and a sandstone pestle.
Both Boonton, NJ and Towanda borough in Bradford County, PA are
located within Lenape ancestral lands.
The Newark Museum of Art has no record of treating the ancestral
remains and associated funerary objects in this inventory with
conservation methods involving toxic pesticides or other dangerous
substances. However, the
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Museum has not tested for toxicity, and at the time these individuals
and AFOs were accessioned, it was common practice to use poisonous
substances for conservation purposes.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the information
available about the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The Newark Museum of Art has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of at least two individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 58 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge Munsee
Community, Wisconsin.
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after September
19, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, The
Newark Museum of Art 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 Newark Museum of Art 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: August 5, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-15850 Filed 8-19-25; 8:45 am]
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