90 FR 130 pg. 30665 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 130Page: 30665
Page: 30665Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040482; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-12837 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040482; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Bryn Mawr College has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES:
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after August 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Send written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice to Marianne Weldon, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, email mweldon@brynmawr.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 Bryn Mawr College, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, five associated funerary objects have been reasonably identified. The associated funerary objects are five burial mat fragments that were removed from either Kagamil Island or Ship Rock Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. They were removed by Alan May, an amateur archaeologist who participated in three seasons of archaeological fieldwork in the Aleutian Islands from 1936 to 1938 under the direction of Aleš Hrdlicka for the Smithsonian Institution. Sometime in the 1930s, May transferred the items to Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004), a Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. de Laguna later donated the associated funerary objects to Bryn Mawr College on an unknown date. Bryn Mawr College has no knowledge or record of the presence of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat the associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation, cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available about the associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
Bryn Mawr College has determined that:
• The five objects described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
• There is a reasonable connection between the associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Native Village of Nikolski.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES . Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
2. 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 11, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, Bryn Mawr College must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing requests. Bryn Mawr College is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 25, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-12837 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
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