Notice of Intended Repatriation: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 12757-12758 [2025-04606]
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Peter Lape, Burke Museum,
University of Washington, Box 353010,
Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206)
685–3849 Ext. 2, email plape@uw.edu.
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 Burke
Museum, 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.
ADDRESSES:
Abstract of Information Available
A total of one cultural item has been
requested for repatriation. The one
unassociated funerary object is a
ceramic vessel (Burke Cat. 1965–4/1).
The vessel was collected by W.L.
Phillips in 1926 from the Gulf Coast,
possibly in Mississippi. The vessel was
eventually obtained by Floyd Baldwin
who then donated it to the Burke
Museum in 1965. Baldwin provided a
note from W.L. Phillips that stated the
vessel was from the ‘‘Choctaw Indians’’
and had been exposed due to a
hurricane in 1926, which eroded burial
sites along river banks. Phillips
provided one photograph of the burial
site where he found the vessel, which
included human remains. There is no
information about whether Phillips
collected any other burial material or
human remains from this site. There is
no documentation that indicates the
vessel has been treated with hazardous
substances; however, it has not been
tested for hazardous contamination.
• There is a reasonable connection
between the cultural item described in
this notice and The Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural item 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 item in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after April 18, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Burke 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 Burke Museum
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: March 5, 2025.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Determinations
The Burke Museum has determined
that:
• The one unassociated funerary
object described in this notice is
reasonably believed to have been placed
intentionally with or near human
remains, and is 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 object has 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.
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Notice of Intended Repatriation:
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Denver
Art Museum intends to repatriate a
certain 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.
SUMMARY:
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Repatriation of the cultural item
in this notice may occur on or after
April 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dakota Hoska, Associate
Curator of Native Arts, Denver Art
Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Pkwy,
Denver, CO 80201, telephone (720) 913–
0161, email dhoska@
denverartmuseum.org.
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 Denver Art
Museum, 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.
DATES:
Abstract of Information Available
A total of one cultural item with two
distinct pieces has been requested for
repatriation. The object of cultural
patrimony is a screen with two sections,
both sections are made of wood and the
culturally significant motifs of ravens
are painted on them. The raven motif
signals a clan house within the Tlingit
community of Sitka Alaska. Because of
the motif, we will refer to these two
screens, which together form one object,
as the Raven Screen throughout this
notice. The Raven Screen was obtained
by the Denver Art Museum’s curator of
Native Arts, Mr. Frederick Douglas from
Mr. Henry Moses in 1939 through
intermediary George Emmons with the
intention of exhibiting the screen at the
San Francisco World’s Fair. Henry
Moses was a fur trader living in Hoonah,
Alaska who collected other items from
this community as well. To our
knowledge, Moses was not Indigenous,
nor was he a member of a clan or moiety
affiliated with these screens and thus
would have had no right to possess or
sell these items, which were normally
passed down generationally within the
community through systems of
inheritance under Tlingit customary
law. It is documented, through
photography, that these screens were
once positioned on a clan house in
Sitka, Alaska and were important to the
shared cultural heritage of the Tlingit
community living there. As a
matrilineal society, screens such as
these should pass down to a nephew of
the family’s matriarch. However, the
heritage rights of Alaskan Native
communities came into conflict with the
Western legal system, which forced
many families to relinquish their
inherited rights of possession and lose
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ownership of their properties and any
items associated with them. Henry
Moses acquired these items from yet
another person who is not specified in
our records, but it is clear that at the
time these screens were separated from
the original knowledge keepers and
rightful owners of this property, and at
the time they fell into the hands of the
unidentified person, the United States
Government had so undermined the
traditional inheritance systems and
enacted measures of such extreme
assimilation as to guarantee that these
screens were relinquished or abandoned
under a situation of extreme duress.
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Determinations
The Denver Art Museum has
determined that:
• The Raven Screen is an object of
cultural patrimony and as described in
this notice has 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 item described in
this notice and the Central Council of
the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribe who
have upon multiple consultations
alerted the DAM to the screen’s ongoing
cultural significance and their
importance in ensuring cultural
knowledge persists into the future.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural item 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 item in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after April 18, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Denver Art 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 Denver Art
Museum is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
and Native Hawaiian organizations
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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: February 19, 2025.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025–04606 Filed 3–18–25; 8:45 am]
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Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Coronado National Forest,
Tucson, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Coronado National Forest
intends to carry out the disposition of
human remains, associated funerary
objects, unassociated funerary objects,
sacred objects, or objects of cultural
patrimony removed from Federal or
Tribal lands to the lineal descendants,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization with priority for
disposition in this notice.
DATES: Disposition of the human
remains or cultural items in this notice
may occur on or after April 18, 2025. If
no claim for disposition is received by
March 19, 2026, the human remains or
cultural items in this notice will become
unclaimed human remains or cultural
items.
SUMMARY:
David Mehalic, Coronado
National Forest, Supervisor’s Office, 300
W Congress Street, Tucson, AZ 85701,
telephone (520) 388–8395, email
david.mehalic@usda.gov.
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 Coronado
National Forest, and additional
information on the human remains or
cultural items in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the
identifications in this notice.
ADDRESSES:
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Abstract of Information Available
The 47 objects of cultural patrimony
are ceramic sherds. Eight of the sherds
are Mimbres Classic Black-on-white,
two sherds are corrugated brownwares,
eight sherds are undecorated
whitewares, and 29 sherds are
undecorated brownwares or buffwares.
These materials were gathered from
Forest Service site number AR03–05–
04–101. This site is informally known as
Hawk Peak Shrine. AR03–05–04–101
contains an oval hole surrounded by a
rock ring and cairn and is interpreted to
be a shrine associated with Mogollon
use of the area. This site is located on
the summit of a high-altitude peak in
the Pinaleño Mountains, approximately
13 miles southwest of Safford, Arizona.
The site is located on lands
administered by the Coronado National
Forest, in the Safford Vista Ranger
District within Graham County,
Arizona. On May 23, 2000, four
ceramics were gathered from the surface
of AR03–05–04–101. In addition to
material gathered in 2000, ceramics
associated with the site were gathered
on October 20, 1987.
Based on the information available,
human remains representing, at least,
two individuals have been reasonably
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present. The two individuals
were identified in faunal collections at
the Arizona State Museum (ASM)
associated with Forest Service site
number AR03–05–05–213. This site is
informally known as the Romero Site
because of the Historic occupation of
the Romero Family ca. 1844. The site is
also a large Hohokam site with an
occupation dating from A.D. 425 to A.D.
1450. The site is located on lands
administered by the Coronado National
Forest, Santa Catalina Ranger District
and permitted to the State of Arizona for
Catalina State Park. The site location is
in Pima County, AZ.
In 1987, the Institute for American
Research (Desert Archaeology)
conducted an archaeological collection
survey in Catalina State Park, focusing
on the site. All artifacts, reports, and
photo material were curated at ASM.
Additional test excavations were
conducted in 1990 and 1993 and all
archaeological material was curated at
ASM. This collection went through
repatriation and disposition by ASM to
the Tohono O’odham Nation on behalf
of Coronado National Forest in 2009
(ASM #r DP–2009–7). Subsequently, in
2016 ASM conducted a review of the
faunal remains from the excavations.
The human remains of two individuals
were identified in these collections.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039555; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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 Denver Art Museum intends to repatriate
a certain 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after April 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dakota Hoska, Associate Curator of Native Arts, Denver Art
Museum, 100 W. 14th Avenue Pkwy, Denver, CO 80201, telephone (720) 913-
0161, 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
Denver Art Museum, 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 one cultural item with two distinct pieces has been
requested for repatriation. The object of cultural patrimony is a
screen with two sections, both sections are made of wood and the
culturally significant motifs of ravens are painted on them. The raven
motif signals a clan house within the Tlingit community of Sitka
Alaska. Because of the motif, we will refer to these two screens, which
together form one object, as the Raven Screen throughout this notice.
The Raven Screen was obtained by the Denver Art Museum's curator of
Native Arts, Mr. Frederick Douglas from Mr. Henry Moses in 1939 through
intermediary George Emmons with the intention of exhibiting the screen
at the San Francisco World's Fair. Henry Moses was a fur trader living
in Hoonah, Alaska who collected other items from this community as
well. To our knowledge, Moses was not Indigenous, nor was he a member
of a clan or moiety affiliated with these screens and thus would have
had no right to possess or sell these items, which were normally passed
down generationally within the community through systems of inheritance
under Tlingit customary law. It is documented, through photography,
that these screens were once positioned on a clan house in Sitka,
Alaska and were important to the shared cultural heritage of the
Tlingit community living there. As a matrilineal society, screens such
as these should pass down to a nephew of the family's matriarch.
However, the heritage rights of Alaskan Native communities came into
conflict with the Western legal system, which forced many families to
relinquish their inherited rights of possession and lose
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ownership of their properties and any items associated with them. Henry
Moses acquired these items from yet another person who is not specified
in our records, but it is clear that at the time these screens were
separated from the original knowledge keepers and rightful owners of
this property, and at the time they fell into the hands of the
unidentified person, the United States Government had so undermined the
traditional inheritance systems and enacted measures of such extreme
assimilation as to guarantee that these screens were relinquished or
abandoned under a situation of extreme duress.
Determinations
The Denver Art Museum has determined that:
The Raven Screen is an object of cultural patrimony and as
described in this notice has 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 item
described in this notice and the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida
Indian Tribe who have upon multiple consultations alerted the DAM to
the screen's ongoing cultural significance and their importance in
ensuring cultural knowledge persists into the future.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after April 18, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Denver Art 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 Denver Art Museum 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: February 19, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04606 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
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