[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15076-15077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04895]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035442; 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 Wrangell Borough, AK.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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 Wrangell Borough, AK. At an 
unknown date, Proctor Stafford acquired a helmet from an unidentified 
woman living in Honolulu, HI. Subsequently, William P. Palmer, III 
purchased it from Stafford. In 1982, Palmer bequeathed this object to 
the University of Maine and it became part of the Hudson Museum's 
holdings. The object of cultural patrimony is a Frog Clan helmet 
(HM5040).
    In June of 2018, a delegation from the Central Council of Tlingit 
and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska came to the Hudson Museum for 
consultation. Subsequently, the Hudson Museum determined that this 
helmet is culturally affiliated with both the Central Council of 
Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and the Kiks.[aacute]di clan 
of the Wrangell Cooperative Association.

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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, historical, 
oral traditional, other relevant information, and expert opinion.

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 have 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 item and the Central Council 
of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes and the Wrangell Cooperative 
Association.

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. 2023-04895 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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