Notice2025-17631
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Published
September 12, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 175 (Friday, September 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44225-44226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17631]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6499; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041040; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, 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 Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG),
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition
of an unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation
with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after October 14, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural item in this notice to Stephanie Wiles, Director, Yale
University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#daa9aebfaab2bbb4b3bff4adb3b6bfa99aa3bbb6bff4bfbeaf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="403334253028212e29256e37292c25330039212c256e252435">[email protected]</span></a>, and Antonia Bartoli, Curator of Provenance
Research, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#83e2edf7ecedeae2ade1e2f1f7ecefeac3fae2efe6ade6e7f6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8eefe0fae1e0e7efa0eceffcfae1e2e7cef7efe2eba0ebeafb">[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
YUAG, 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 one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The one unassociated funerary object is an engraved silver armband. The
armband was made by Joseph Richardson Jr. (1752-1831) and was removed
from a burial mound in or near Cross Village, Emmet County, in
Michigan, by the blacksmith of the village, by 1898. The item
subsequently passed into the collections of Philip H. Dilg, in Chicago,
Illinois, and Cornelius Titus Geesey, who sold the cultural item to the
YUAG in 1948. A relationship of shared group identity can be clearly
and reasonably traced between the cultural item and the Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
Determinations
The YUAG has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary object described in this
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or
near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death or
later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary object has been identified by a preponderance of
the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a connection between the cultural item described
in this notice and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after October 14, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the YUAG must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
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repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The YUAG is 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: August 29, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-17631 Filed 9-11-25; 8:45 am]
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