Notice2024-17259
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, and Pasadena City College, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
August 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Autry Museum of the American West and Pasadena City College intend 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 63970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17259]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038397; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Autry Museum of the American
West, Los Angeles, CA, and Pasadena City College, 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), Autry Museum of the American West and
Pasadena City College intend 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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#afc4ddc6ccc7ceddcbdcc0c1efdbc7cacedadbddd681c0ddc8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e18a93888289809385928e8fa19589848094959398cf8e9386">[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 and Pasadena City College, and
additional information on the determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or related
records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of two lots of cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The two unassociated funerary objects are one lot of
shell beads and one lot of woven grass mat fragments. In an unknown
year, an unknown collector collected cultural material from unknown
site(s) on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, in Santa Barbara County,
CA. Mr. Keith Dixon (1073.G) obtained the shell beads from Pasadena
City College at an unknown year. Additionally, Mr. Dixon collected the
woven sea grass mat at an unknown year from an unknown burial site on
Santa Rosa Island. Mr. Dixon gifted the cultural items to the Southwest
Museum in 1946.
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West and Pasadena City College has
determined that:
<bullet> The two lots of unassociated funerary objects described
above are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or
near individual human remains, and are connected, either 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 an individual or individuals with cultural
affiliation to an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the 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 authorized representative identified
in this notice under 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 September 5, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Autry Museum of the American West and
Pasadena City College 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
Autry Museum of the American West and Pasadena City College is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and to any
other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: July 25, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-17259 Filed 8-5-24; 8:45 am]
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