Notice2025-08040
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
May 8, 2025
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 (Southwest Museum Collection) has completed an inventory associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 88 (Thursday, May 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19512-19513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08040]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040074; 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 associated
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary object in this notice
may occur on or after June 9, 2025.
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#94ffe6fdf7fcf5e6f0e7fbfad4e0fcf1f5e1e0e6edbafbe6f3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bbd0c9d2d8d3dac9dfc8d4d5fbcfd3dedacecfc9c295d4c9dc">[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 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, one associated funerary object
has been found to be associated with human remains listed in a Notice
of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on September
13, 2007 (72 FR 52390-52391) and repatriated. The associated funerary
object is one chert triangular point. In 1914, Mr. Edwin J. Blakeslee
collected a human skull (964.G.255) with an embedded arrowpoint
(964.G.603) from Amazonia Mound, north of St. Joseph, MO. The human
remains with the embedded arrowpoint were given to the Dyer Museum at
an unknown date, before making its way to the St. Joseph Museum also at
an unknown date. Sometime between 1930-1943, St. Joseph Museum's
curator Mr. Oscar Branson gave or sold the cultural items to Mr. John
G. Braecklein who gifted the items to the Southwest Museum (now part of
the Autry Museum). The arrowpoint was gifted in 1944, a year after the
human remains and was given its own object number.
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 associated funerary object
described in this notice.
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West has determined that:
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is 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 associated
funerary object described in this notice and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas
and Nebraska and the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary object
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.
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Repatriation of the associated funerary object in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after June 9, 2025. 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 associated funerary object 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: April 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08040 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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