Notice2025-01187
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
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Published
January 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Gilcrease Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5995-5996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01187]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039353; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
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 Gilcrease Museum intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated
funerary objects or objects of cultural patrimony 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 February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Laura Bryant, Gilcrease Museum, 800 S. Tucker Drive, Tulsa,
OK 74104, telephone (918) 596-2747, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#167a776364773b74646f777862566362637a657738737263"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e58984909784c887979c848b91a5909190899684cb808190">[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
Gilcrease Museum, 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 nine cultural items have been requested for
repatriation.
The four unassociated funerary objects are glass and ceramic beads.
These were removed in 1931 from a mid- to late 19th century cemetery at
Rocky Hill near Portersville in Tulare County, California. The items
were acquired by Thomas Gilcrease likely in the 1950s and transferred
to the City of Tulsa in 1955.
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The five objects of cultural patrimony are baskets. Three of these
baskets are from Tulare County, California and are identified as
Yokuts. One of these was acquired by Frank Engles, a prospector who
traveled and collected throughout the northwestern part of the United
States, in the early 20th century. Thomas Gilcrease purchased his
collection in 1950, which was transferred to the City of Tulsa in 1955.
Two of the baskets are identified as Yokuts. One, from the early 20th
century, was gifted to the Museum by Wynetka Ann Reynolds and Thomas
Kirschbaum in 2014.
Determinations
The Gilcrease Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The four unassociated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with
or near 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> The five objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group, including any constituent sub-
group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other
subdivision), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Tule River Indian Tribe of the
Tule River 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 February 18, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Gilcrease Museum 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 Gilcrease Museum 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: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01187 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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