Notice2023-12285
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Published
June 8, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco intends to repatriate a cultural item that meets the definitions of both a sacred object and an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural item was removed from Acoma, NM.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37575-37576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12285]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035980; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
intends to repatriate a cultural item that meets the definitions of
both a sacred object and an object of cultural patrimony and that has a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The cultural item was removed from Acoma,
NM.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after July 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Christina Hellmich, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 50
Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, telephone (415)
750-2621, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ceada6aba2a2a3a7ada68ea8afa3bda8e0a1bca9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ddbeb5b8b1b1b0b4beb59dbbbcb0aebbf3b2afba">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 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 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Description
On an unknown date the one cultural item was removed from Acoma,
NM. The cultural item is a shield. The provenance of the shield is
documented by two art exhibitions and accompanying catalogues at the
Art Institute of Chicago and the Aspen Center for the Visual arts in
1977 and 1979, respectively. In 1977, Robert & Sharon Ashton of Santa
Fe, NM, were listed as the owners of the shield. From 1979 to 1985, the
shield was in the private collection of Jonathan and Philip M. Holstein
of The Thundercloud Corporation, Aspen, CO. In 1985, the shield was
sold to Thomas W. Weisel. It was in the Thomas W. Weisel Family
Collection, Ross, CA, from 1985 until 2013, when it was gifted to the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The shield is both a sacred object
and an object of culturally patrimony.
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: art historical, oral
traditional, other relevant information, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has determined
that:
<bullet> 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.
<bullet> The one cultural item described above has ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an
individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural item and the Pueblo of Acoma,
New Mexico.
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 July 10, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 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 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is
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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: May 31, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12285 Filed 6-7-23; 8:45 am]
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