Notice2023-13298
Notice of Inventory Completion: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
June 22, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LACMNH), has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed from Bernalillo County, NM.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 119 (Thursday, June 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40854-40855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13298]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036060; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Los Angeles County Museum of
Natural History, Los Angeles, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural
History (LACMNH), has completed an inventory of human remains and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this
notice. The human remains were removed from Bernalillo County, NM.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 24, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Amy E. Gusick, NAGPRA Officer, Los Angeles County Museum of
Natural History, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007,
telephone (213) 763-3370, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2f4e485a5c464c446f41474201405d48"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="315056444258525a715f595c1f5e4356">[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
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. 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 inventory or related records held
by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, seven individuals were
removed from the Paa-ko Pueblo site in Bernalillo County, NM. On March
13, 1942, these human remains were recorded in the Accession Records of
the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Hancock Foundation (a now-
disbanded museum that was once part of the University of Southern
California). The accession record (number 64) reads, ``Skeletal
material from Pa-ako, ruin in New Mexico: season--Most are frag.'' The
human remains, which had been gifted to the University of Southern
California by the Museum of New Mexico, were recorded with the U.S.C.
code designations Bq and 60. Bq represents ``Paako'' and 60 represents
``skeletal--burials.'' On February 1, 1966, the Laboratory of
Anthropology of the Hancock Foundation loaned items from its
anthropology collection to LACMNH, and on March 29, 1983, they were
gifted to LACMNH. LACMNH Catalog Number L.2397.66-27 represents two
adult females between 20 and 40 years old and LACMNH Catalog Number
L.2397.66-28 represents one adult of unknown sex, one fetus, one
newborn, one child one year old, and one child three years old; the
three-year old had spina bifida. No associated funerary objects are
present.
The Paa-ko site is believed to have been occupied from
approximately A.D. 1300 to 1425 and then again from approximately A.D.
1525 to 1626 or later. The Paa-ko site is documented through material
culture and ethnographic accounts to as having originally been
inhabited by the Tamayame people, and represents an important location
in the migration history of the modern Tamayame, or people of the
Pueblo of Santa Ana. Oral history and ethnographic accounts trace this
migration history through Paa-ko to the modern Pueblo of Santa Ana.
These histories, as well as archeological evidence suggests a continued
shared group identity between the Tamayame people and the modern Native
American inhabitants of the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are 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 anthropological, archeological, and oral traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of seven individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
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 human remains in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after July 24, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Los Angeles County
Museum of Natural History is 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 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: June 14, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-13298 Filed 6-21-23; 8:45 am]
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