Notice2024-22884
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Autry Museum of the American West and California, Los Angeles, CA, and California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA
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Published
October 4, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Autry Museum of the American West jointly with California Department of Parks and Recreation 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80923-80924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22884]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038783; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Autry Museum of the American
West and California, Los Angeles, CA, and California Department of
Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, 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
jointly with California Department of Parks and Recreation 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after November 4, 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#3f544d565c575e4d5b4c50517f4b575a5e4a4b4d4611504d58"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b5dec7dcd6ddd4c7d1c6dadbf5c1ddd0d4c0c1c7cc9bdac7d2">[email protected]</span></a> and Leslie Hartzell, NAGPRA
Coordinator, at California State Parks, 715 P Street, Suite 13,
Sacramento, CA 95814, telephone (415) 831-2700, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#09656c7a65606c2761687b7d736c65654979687b627a276a68276e667f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6b070e1807020e45030a191f110e07072b1b0a19001845080a450c041d">[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 jointly with California Department of
Parks and Recreation, 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 one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The one
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unassociated funerary object is one lot of cordage. In an unknown year,
Mr. Willy Stahl (830.G) collected material from Mishopshnow (CA-SBa-7),
Carpinteria, Carpinteria State Beach, in Santa Barbara County, CA. Mr.
Stahl gifted the cultural item to the Southwest Museum (now part of the
Autry Museum of the American West) in 1942. Mishopshnow (CA-SBa-7) is a
Chumash village and cemetery site that dates to the Late Period (1100
AD to contact).
A total of one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The one unassociated funerary object is one fishhook. In 1930, Mr.
Bruce Bryan (1864.G) collected the cultural item from a burial at
Mishopshnow (CA-SBA-7) Carpinteria, Carpinteria State Beach, in Santa
Barbara County, CA. Mr. Bryan gifted the cultural item in 1966 to the
Southwest Museum.
A total of eight cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The eight unassociated funerary objects are eight trade
beads. The trade beads were found in the museum collection (5.C.98)
with no object number in a box with cultural material from
Misphopshnow/Carpinteria from the Mr. Willy Stahla (830.G) collection.
Thus, it is likely they came from that collection, exact collection
number could not be found.
A total of 186 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The 186 unassociated funerary objects are one lot of shell beads
(missing), 137 shell beads, 45 shell beads, and three ochre fragments.
At an unknown date, Mr. Harry Clayton Davis (1052.G), and members of
the Archaeological Society of Southern California (ASSC), a non-
professional group, collected cultural items from a sandbank at
Mishopshnow Village (CA-SBa-7) in Carpinteria, Carpinteria State Beach,
Santa Barbara County, CA. Mr. Davis's wife gifted the cultural items to
the Southwest Museum in 1946.
A total of five cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The five unassociated funerary objects are one bone bead
and four shell beads. At an unknown date, Mr. Francis H. Elmore
collected cultural items from near the tar pits at Mishopshnow (CA-SBa-
7), in Carpinteria, Carpinteria State Beach, Santa Barbara County, CA.
Mr. Elmore gifted the cultural items to the Southwest Museum in 1959.
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West jointly with California
Department of Parks and Recreation has determined that:
<bullet> The 201 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 November 4, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Autry Museum of the American West
jointly with California Department of Parks and Recreation 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 jointly with California Department of Parks and
Recreation 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: September 24, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-22884 Filed 10-3-24; 8:45 am]
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