Notice2023-18817
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
August 31, 2023
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Autry Museum of the American West has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from San Luis Obispo County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 168 (Thursday, August 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60234-60235]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18817]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036488; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American
West, Los Angeles, 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 Autry Museum of the American West has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from San Luis Obispo County,
CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 2, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Karimah Richardson, M.Phil., RPA, Associate Curator of
Anthropology and Repatriation Supervisor, Autry Museum of the American
West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027, telephone (323)
495-4203, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#88e3fae1ebe0e9faecfbe7e6c8fce0ede9fdfcfaf1a6e7faef"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cba0b9a2a8a3aab9afb8a4a58bbfa3aeaabebfb9b2e5a4b9ac">[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
Autry Museum of the American West. 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 Autry Museum of the American West.
Description
At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed by Mrs. Gladys Knight Harris, a cultural
anthropologist from Santa Barbara County, CA, from an unknown site on
Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County, CA. In 1983, Mrs. Knight Harris
donated these human remains, together with associated funerary objects,
to the Southwest Museum. The human remains, which consist of a
mandible, belong to an adult of undetermined sex. The 26 associated
funerary objects are 10 shell fragments, six faunal bone fragments, one
lot consisting of ochre fragments, and nine shell beads.
Sometime around 1967, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed by Mr. Robert Henze from an unknown site at
Ragged Point, located 15 miles north of San Simeon, in San Luis Obispo
County, CA. Mr. Henze had found these human remains eroding from Ragged
Point, and in 1972, he donated them to the Southwest Museum. The human
remains, which consist of a cranium and a mandible, belong to an adult
(probably female) between 35 and 50 years old. The one associated
funerary object is a lot consisting of soil.
Based on the associated funerary objects, the Autry Museum has
determined that these human remains belong to a Native American burial.
Moreover, the presence of red ochre, which is a hallmark of Chumash and
nearby southern California tribal funerary practice, supports an
identification of this burial as Northern Chumash or Salinan.
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: archeological, geographical, historical, and oral
traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Autry Museum of the American Indian has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical
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remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 27 objects described in this notice 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 2, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Autry Museum of
the American West must determine the most appropriate requestor prior
to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Autry Museum of the American West 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: August 23, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18817 Filed 8-30-23; 8:45 am]
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