Notice2023-18821
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Field Museum, Chicago, IL
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Published
August 31, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Kings County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 168 (Thursday, August 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60239-60240]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18821]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036492; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Field Museum,
Chicago, IL
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 Field Museum intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated
funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony and
that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed
from Kings County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after October 2, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, IL 60605-2496, telephone (312) 665-7317, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6f071d000d0d06011c2f09060a030b021a1c0a1a0241001d08"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b6dec4d9d4d4dfd8c5f6d0dfd3dad2dbc3c5d3c3db98d9c4d1">[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
Field Museum. 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 Field
Museum.
Description
The 25 cultural items listed in this notice were removed from Kings
County, CA. In May and June of 1901, Dr. John Hudson collected the
cultural items on behalf of the Field Museum during a two-year
expedition among the Native populations of California. That same year,
the Field Museum accessioned these cultural items. Two of the cultural
items are unassociated funerary objects. They are one lot consisting of
shells and wampum, and one glass bead necklace. Nine of the cultural
items are sacred objects. They are one dance clapper, one headdress,
one roll of eagle down, one head net, one skirt, one hand wand, one
bunch of eagle down, one lot consisting of white paint, and one roll of
jay feathers. Fourteen of the cultural items are objects of cultural
patrimony. They are one wooden mortar, two stone mortars, three sifting
trays, one cooking basket, one small basket, one digging stick, one
bone awl, one set of quiver and arrows, and three drills.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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,
geographical, historical, oral traditional, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Field Museum has determined that:
<bullet> Two of the cultural items described above 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 and
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> Nine of the cultural items described above are specific
ceremonial objects needed by traditional Native American religious
leaders for the practice of traditional Native American religions by
their present-day adherents.
<bullet> Fourteen of the cultural items described above have
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 items and the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
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 items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after October 2, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Field Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Field Museum 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,
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U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: August 23, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18821 Filed 8-30-23; 8:45 am]
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