Notice2024-03580
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
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Published
February 22, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum (SRJCMM) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Los Angeles County and Santa Barbara County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 36 (Thursday, February 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13364-13365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03580]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037414; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Santa Rosa Junior
College Multicultural Museum, Santa Rosa, 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 Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural
Museum (SRJCMM) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet
the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Los
Angeles County and Santa Barbara County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Rachel Minor, Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural
Museum, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95401, telephone (707) 524-
1862, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7f0d121611100d3f0c1e110b1e0d100c1e511a1b0a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="30425d595e5f427043515e4451425f43511e555445">[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
SRJCMM. 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 SRJCMM.
Description
The three cultural items were removed from Santa Barbara and Los
Angeles, CA. Accession #87.027: one Chumash Steatite Bowl, pre-1800,
found on the island of Catalina. Bowl has several old breaks that have
been repaired. Was probably found in shards. Donated by Charles
Beardsley to the SRJCMM in 1987. Accession #92.065 A and B: one stone
mortar and one stone pestle, found on the Santa Barbara Coast in the
1800s by the Harrington family. Donated in 1992 by Mr. Jess Rathbun.
The three unassociated funerary objects are one steatite bowl, one
stone mortar, and one stone pestle.
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: Geographical 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 SRJCMM has determined that:
<bullet> The three 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and Santa Ynez Band of
Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 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 March 25, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the SRJCMM 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 SRJCMM is responsible for sending a copy of
this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 9, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-03580 Filed 2-21-24; 8:45 am]
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