[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71389-71390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19677]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038628; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intended Repatriation: Indiana University, Bloomington, 
IN

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Indiana University intends to repatriate 
certain

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cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary 
objects or objects 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 items in this notice may occur on 
or after October 3, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Jayne-Leigh Thomas, Indiana University, NAGPRA Office, 
Student Building 318, 701 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, 
telephone (812) 856-5315, email [email protected]; and Dr. Allison 
Martino, Indiana University, Eskenazi Museum of Art, 1133 East Seventh 
Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7509, telephone (812) 855-5445, 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 
Indiana University, 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 eight cultural items have been requested for 
repatriation.
    The four unassociated funerary objects are shaman's objects, and 
the four objects of cultural patrimony are a mask, rattle, blanket, and 
ceremonial knife. Museum records and consultation both identified 
Tlingit cultural affiliation for these eight items. Available records 
do not include geographical locations for any of these cultural items. 
The Indiana University Art Museum (IUAM), now the Eskenazi Museum of 
Art, acquired a shaman's box from Origins Gallery in 1962. The IUAM 
received additional three shaman's objects as a donation from the 
Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection in 2010. Prior ownership for these 
objects include: JJ. Klejman, George Thorton Emmons, Harry Georffrey 
Beasley, the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, Merton Simpson, and 
Reverend Robert Richard Arthur Doolan. The IUAM acquired a rattle and 
chief's blanket from Michael R. Johnson Gallery in 1975; prior 
ownership for the blanket includes John H. Hauberg. The IUAM acquired a 
mask from Raymond Wielgus in 1977; prior ownership history includes 
Julius Carlebach, Andre Breton, and Paul Eluard. The IUAM acquired a 
ceremonial knife from Damon Brandt in 1980.

Determinations

    Indiana University has determined that:
     The four unassociated funerary objects described in this 
notice are 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 objects have 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.
     The four objects of cultural patrimony described in this 
notice have 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 Central Council of the Tlingit & 
Haida Indian Tribes.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
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 items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after October 3, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, Indiana University must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. Indiana University 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 26, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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