Notice2024-27514
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Museum of Us, San Diego, CA
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Published
November 25, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Museum of Us 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 227 (Monday, November 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 92975-92976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27514]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039111; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Museum of Us, San Diego, 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 Museum of Us 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 December 26, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Carmen Mosley, NAGPRA Repatriation Manager, Museum of Us,
1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101, telephone (619) 239-
2001 Ext. 42, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6d5dbd9c5dad3cff6dbc3c5d3c3dbd9d0c3c598d9c4d1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="690a04061a050c1029041c1a0c1c04060f1c1a47061b0e">[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
Museum of Us, 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 145 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The 14 unassociated funerary objects removed from Thistle Mound (CV-12)
in Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA, include eight pieces of flat
matting bone needles, three stone discs, one hammerstone, one string of
Olivella shell beads, and one string of clam shell beads. The 131
unassociated funerary objects removed from Lovejoy (Dalton) Mound (CV-
16) in Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA include two lots of carbonized
basketry material, one basket fragment, 36 Haliotis ornament pieces,
six bipointed bone objects, 19 perforated carnivore canine teeth, 64
projectile points, and three perforated mica pendants.
Between 1930 and 1936, the 145 unassociated funerary objects were
removed by Henry Gibbs, a private collector and looter. In 1937, Paul
A. Walker purchased Gibbs' Central Valley, California archeological
collection. Walker was an amateur archeologist and collector who worked
by himself and with other amateur archeologists, and in collaboration
with the University of California and Sacramento Junior College. Over
the course of his life, Walker amassed an extensive archeological
collection from California's Central Valley and smaller collections
from Northern and Southern California, and outside of California. In
1968, Walker's private archeological collection was acquired by the San
Diego Museum of Man (now Museum of Us) through a purchase/donation
transaction with Walker's widow, Bessie B. Walker.
Determinations
The Museum of Us has determined that:
<bullet> The 145 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 of a Native
American culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge
of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization.
The unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a
preponderance of the evidence as related to human remains, specific
individuals, or families, or removed from a specific burial site or
burial area 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 Ione Band of Miwok Indians of
California and the Wilton Rancheria, 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
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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 December 26, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Museum of Us 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 Museum of Us 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: November 18, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-27514 Filed 11-22-24; 8:45 am]
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