90 FR 62 pgs. 14458-14459 - Notice of Intended Repatriation: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 62Pages: 14458 - 14459
Pages: 14458, 14459Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039810; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-05605 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039810; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that have 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 May 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Abigail Hoover, Associate Director of Registration and Collections, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Lower Lake Road, South Hadley, MA 01075, telephone (413) 538-2492, email ahoover@mtholyoke.edu.
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 Mount Holyoke College Art 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
One cultural item has been requested for repatriation. The object of cultural patrimony is a beaded jacket.
The object in this notice is part of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum collection, which was donated to the Trustees of Mount Holyoke College by Skinner after his death in 1946. Like many of the objects in the Skinner collection, there is no extant provenance information, and it is unclear when these objects were acquired, though pictures show the display of these objects by Skinner as early as 1934.
[top] The jacket in the Skinner Museum collection is imbued with ongoing historical, traditional, and/or cultural importance to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. The jacket is embroidered with a widely practiced style of beadwork using culturally significant colors and designs.
Based on the above definitions and a general knowledge of these objects possessing cultural significance, the claim for repatriation to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe will be honored.
Determinations
The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has determined that:
• The one object of cultural patrimony described in this notice has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
• There is a reasonable connection between the cultural items described in this notice and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
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 May 2, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and not competing requests. The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum 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: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05605 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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