Notice2025-17364
Notice of Inventory Completion: Mukwonago Community Library, Mukwonago, WI
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Published
September 10, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Mukwonago Community Library 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 173 (Wednesday, September 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43626-43627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17364]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6478; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040986; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Mukwonago Community Library,
Mukwonago, WI
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 Mukwonago Community Library 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 October 10, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the associated
funerary objects in this notice to Abby Armour, Mukwonago Community
Library, 511 Division Street, Mukwonago, WI 53149, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5937383e292b3819342c322e3637383e3635303b2b382b2077362b3e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0a646b6d7a786b4a677f617d65646b6d65666368786b78732465786d">[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
Mukwonago Community Library 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, nine associated funerary
objects from Sand Cove Site (CA-SAC-164), Sacramento County, CA have
been reasonably identified. On an unknown date, the associated funerary
objects were removed from the Sand Cove Site by an unknown individual.
On a date prior to 1965, Arthur Grutzmacher, a collector and dealer
from Mukwonago, WI, obtained the associated funerary objects. Following
his death in 1965, the associated funerary objects were bequeathed to
the Mukwonago Community Library. The nine associated funerary objects
are six lots of red and white beads and three lots of white beads. The
Mukwonago Community Library has no knowledge of any potentially
hazardous substances used to treat the associated funerary objects.
Based on the information available, 29 associated funerary objects
likely from the Sand Cove Site (CA-SAC-164) or Bennett Mound (CA-SAC-
16), Sacramento County, CA have been reasonably identified. On an
unknown date, the associated funerary objects were likely removed from
Sand Cove or Bennett Mound by Jeremiah B. Lillard or another collector
in California. On a date prior to 1965, Arthur Grutzmacher, a collector
and dealer from Mukwonago, WI, obtained the associated funerary
objects. Following his death in 1965, the associated funerary objects
were bequeathed to the Mukwonago Community Library. The Mukwonago
Community Library published a Notice of Inventory Completion for three
associated funerary objects in June 2024 from Bennett Mound (CA-SAC-
16). After additional Tribal consultation regarding the items in the
Grutzmacher collection in November 2024, additional associated funerary
objects to likely be from Bennett Mound or the Sand Cove Site were
identified. The 29 associated funerary objects are three lots of
modified abalone shell, 22 lots of shell and glass beads, one stone
bead, and three bone tubes. The Mukwonago Community Library has no
knowledge 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
The Mukwonago Community Library has determined that:
<bullet> The 38 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 Buena Vista Rancheria
of Me-Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe,
California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California;
Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk
Indians; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians
of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California; United Auburn Indian Community
of the Auburn Rancheria of California; and the Wilton Rancheria,
California.
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.
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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 October 10, 2025. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the Mukwonago Community Library 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. The Mukwonago
Community Library 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 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-17364 Filed 9-9-25; 8:45 am]
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