Notice2025-17493
Notice of Inventory Completion: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
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Published
September 11, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Abbe Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 174 (Thursday, September 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 44097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17493]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6482; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040990; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
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 Abbe Museum has completed an inventory
of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after October 14, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Aaron F. Miller, Curator of Exhibits & Collections,
Abbe Museum, P.O. Box 286, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#26474754494866474444434b535543534b08495441"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6d7d7c4d9d8f6d7d4d4d3dbc3c5d3c3db98d9c4d1">[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
Abbe Museum, 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, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
In the summer of 2024, the collection of faunal materials from the
Tranquility Farm site (44.12A), Gouldsboro, ME were approved by the
Abbe Museum Collections Committee to be analyzed by a team of
researchers based at Boston University, Boston, MA. That analysis
revealed a human tooth that had been recovered during the 2011 Abbe
Museum archaeological field school at the site. Ancestral remains
representing three individuals had been previously removed from the
site between 1931 and 1936. Those ancestral remains were repatriated by
the Abbe Museum in 1997 (see Notice of Inventory Completion published
in Federal Register on July 20, 1994 (94-17582)) to the Wabanaki Tribes
of Maine (Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi'kmaq Nation,
Passamaquoddy Tribe, and Penobscot Nation).
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the human remains described in this notice.
Determinations
The Abbe Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; Mi'kmaq Nation
(previously listed as Aroostook Band of Micmacs); Passamaquoddy Tribe;
and the Penobscot Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after October 14, 2025. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the Abbe Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Abbe Museum is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice and any other consulting
parties.
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. 2025-17493 Filed 9-10-25; 8:45 am]
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