Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI, 67060-67061 [2022-24225]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 214 (Monday, November 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67060-67061]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24225]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034805; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College, 
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, in consultation 
with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, 
has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items 
should submit a written request to Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of 
control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, 
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology at the address in this notice by December 7, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicolette B. Meister, Beloit College, 
Logan Museum of Anthropology, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, 
telephone (608) 363-2305, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI, 
that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25 
U.S.C. 3001.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The 
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    On an unknown date, six cultural items were removed from Elliot 
Mound, No. 3, in Sacramento County, CA. Museum catalog information 
states the items most likely belong to the Horatio Nelson Rust 
Collection. A native of Amherst, Massachusetts, Horatio Nelson Rust 
(1826-1906) was a lifelong antiquarian and amateur archeologist who 
began collecting archeological and ethnographic items as a traveling 
salesman on the East Coast. He accepted artifacts for trade or payment, 
and contracted the sale or collection of artifacts from institutions in 
the East. In 1880, Rust moved to California, where he served as a 
United States Indian Agent. In 1892, Rust sold approximately 3,000 
items to Frank Granger Logan. In 1894, Logan donated the Rust 
Collection to the Logan Museum of Anthropology. The six unassociated 
funerary objects (catalog number 4902) are one lot of coiled basketry 
fragments; one lot of loose weave net fragments; one lot of compact 
weave net fragments; one lot of twisted cordage fragments; one bundle 
of twisted threads; and one lot of woven blanket fragments.
    Based on archeological, anthropological, geographical, 
ethnohistoric, ethnographic, linguistic, and oral traditional 
information, the Sacramento Valley and Delta regions, where Elliot 
Mound No. 3 is located, are home to Nisenan-speaking groups, of which 
Wilton Rancheria, California is one.

Determinations Made by Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology

    Officials of Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the six cultural items 
described above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or 
near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of 
the death rite or ceremony and are believed, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary objects and the Wilton Rancheria, California.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Nicolette B. Meister, Beloit College, Logan 
Museum of Anthropology, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, telephone 
(608) 363-2305, email [email protected], by December 7, 2022. After 
that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of 
control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Wilton Rancheria, 
California may proceed.
    Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology is responsible for 
notifying the Wilton Rancheria, California that this notice has been 
published.


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    Dated: October 26, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-24225 Filed 11-4-22; 8:45 am]
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