[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15073-15074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04894]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035441; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hudson Museum, 
University of Maine, Orono, 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 Hudson Museum intends to repatriate a 
cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural 
patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural item was 
removed from the Haines Borough, AK.

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DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or 
after April 10, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Amber Sky Heller, Registrar, Hudson Museum, University of 
Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, Orono, ME 04469, telephone 
(207) 581-1902, email [email protected].

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 
Hudson Museum. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the summary or related records held by the Hudson 
Museum.

Description

    The cultural item was removed from the Haines Borough, AK. A drum 
was likely collected by Charlie Goldstein (1869-1961), who transferred 
it to his sister, Belle Simpson (nee Goldstein, 1885-1985), proprietor 
of The Nugget Shop in Juneau, Alaska. Around 1967, Morton D. May 
acquired the drum (along with other items in the Belle Simpson 
collection), and in 1970, William P. Palmer, III acquired it from May 
through Stendahl Galleries of Hollywood, CA. In 1982, Palmer bequeathed 
the drum to the University of Maine and it became part of the Hudson 
Museum's holdings. The one object of cultural patrimony is a Bentwood 
Box Drum (HM5523).
    In June of 2018, a delegation from the Central Council of the 
Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes came to the Hudson Museum for 
consultation. Subsequently, the Hudson Museum determined that this drum 
is affiliated with both the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida 
Indian Tribes and the Ghaanaxhteid[iacute] clan of the Chilkat Indian 
Village (Klukwan).

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural item in this notice is connected to one or more 
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a 
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier 
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: anthropological, 
geographical, historical, oral traditional, and other relevant 
information.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Hudson Museum has determined that:
     The one cultural item described above has ongoing 
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native 
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an 
individual.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Central Council 
of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes and the Chilkat Indian Village 
(Klukwan).

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
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 items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after April 10, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Hudson 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 Hudson Museum is responsible for sending a 
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: March 1, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-04894 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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