Notice2024-17258
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
August 6, 2024
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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 (Southwest Museum Collection) 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63965-63966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17258]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038396; 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
(Southwest Museum Collection) 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after September 5, 2024.
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#0368716a606b627167706c6d43776b66627677717a2d6c7164"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="056e776c666d647761766a6b45716d60647071777c2b6a7762">[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
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sole responsibility of the Autry Museum of the American West and
additional information on the determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related
records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, two individuals have been reasonably identified. No associated
funerary objects are present. The human remains (17.C.20 and 17.C.121)
were collected from San Miguel Island, Channel Islands, in Santa
Barbara County, CA, exact site is unknown. Cultural material was
``found in collections'' with no information other than San Miguel
Island, thus date collected or how the human remains came to the
Southwest Museum (now part of the Autry Museum) is unknown.
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual has been reasonably identified. The one
associated funerary object is one bag of soil. The human remains
(1760.G.29) were collected from Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands, in
Santa Barbara County, CA. at an unknown date by Mr. Lawrence W.
Rundell. His mother, Mrs. William A. Mendel, gifted the cultural
material to the Southwest Museum in 1963. Per museum records, Mr. L. W.
Rundell ``found the human remains on one of the Channel Islands (prob.
Santa Cruz), but we cannot be sure'', at an unknown date.
Based on the information available, human remains representing at
least nine individuals have been reasonably identified. The one
associated funerary object is one mussel shell fragment. The human
remains (421.G.534 and 421.G.535) were collected from the Northern
Channel Islands, in Santa Barbara County, CA by Mr. George Wharton
James at unknown date(s). Museum records states ``Chumash
Archaeological Material'' with no indication of which site or island
for any of the human remains. Mr. James wife and his stepdaughter
gifted the cultural materials to the Southwest Museum in 1932.
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, two individuals have been reasonably identified. No associated
funerary objects are present. The human remains (342.G.1, 342.G.2 and
342.G. 3) were collected from Rincon Point (CA-SBa-1), in Santa Barbara
County, CA. by Mr. Martin R. Westcott and his wife. The cultural
material was collected before it became part of Rincon Point State
Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Westcott gifted the cultural material to Southwest
Museum in 1924.
Based on the information available, human remains representing at
least, one individual has been reasonably identified. The three
associated funerary objects are one shell pendant fragment, one shell
(missing), and one worked faunal bone fragment incised. The human
remains (1052.G.37) and associated funerary objects were collected from
the Indian cemetery portion of Rincon Point (CA-SBa-1), in Santa
Barbara County, CA by Mr. Harry Clayton Davis as part of the
Archaeology Society of Southern California (ASSC) excavation at Rincon
Point. The Archaeology Society of Southern California (ASSC) was
established circa 1920s and was a non-professional group. Mrs. Harry
Clayton Davis gifted the cultural material to the Southwest Museum in
1946. The Chumash village of Shuku and cemetery are located at Rincon
Point. There are two site ages for Rincon Point: The Early Period
(5,000 to 6,000 B.P.) and the early Middle Period (ca. 2,150-2,750
B.P.).
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual has been reasonably identified. No associated
funerary objects are present. The human remains (871.G.68) were
collected from an unknown site in the Santa Barbara region in Santa
Barbara County, CA. by Miss Elizabeth Mason at an unknown date. Miss
Elizabeth Mason gifted the cultural objects to the Southwest Museum in
1954.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 16 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The five objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 reasonable connection 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
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 September 5, 2024.
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 Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: July 25, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-17258 Filed 8-5-24; 8:45 am]
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