[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78385-78386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-25210]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036926; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: James B. and 
Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, 
DeKalb, IL (Formerly Anthropology Museum at Northern Illinois 
University)

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 James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of 
Anthropology at Northern Illinois University (Pick Museum) intends to 
repatriate a cultural item that meets the definition of a sacred 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 December 15, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Christy DeLair, Museum Director, James B. and Rosalyn L. 
Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, 1425 W 
Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60015, telephone (815) 753-0230, 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 
James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern 
Illinois University. 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 James B. and 
Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University.

Description

    In 1966, the Pick Museum purchased a medicine face mask (catalog 
no. 66-8-8) from the Original Curio and Prospectors Shop in Santa Fe, 
NM. Pick Museum records identify the medicine face as Seneca and 
suggest that its provenience is the Cattaraugus Reservation. The 
medicine face is a sacred object.

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 expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of Anthropology 
at Northern Illinois University has determined that:
     The one cultural item described above is a specific 
ceremonial object needed by traditional Native American religious 
leaders for the practice of traditional Native American religions by 
their present-day adherents.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural item and the Seneca Nation of 
Indians.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 
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 item in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after December 15, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the James B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of 
Anthropology at Northern

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Illinois University 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 James 
B. and Rosalyn L. Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois 
University is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the 
Indian Tribe 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, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: November 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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