Notice2025-08041
Notice of Intended Repatriation: 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) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and have a cultural affiliation with the 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 19515-19516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08041]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040075; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: 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) intends to repatriate certain cultural
items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and
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 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#89e2fbe0eae1e8fbedfae6e7c9fde1ece8fcfdfbf0a7e6fbee"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1d766f747e757c6f796e72735d6975787c68696f6433726f7a">[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 summary or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of three lots of cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The number of unassociated funerary objects is three lots
of trade beads. On an unknown date, Mr. Gustave A.L. Heimann collected
the cultural items from Concow (Konkow) Cemetery, Yankee Hill, Feather
River in Butte County, CA. Mr. Heimann gifted the cultural items in
1959 to the Southwest Museum (now part of Autry Museum of the American
West). The Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California (a
federally recognized tribe) is claiming cultural affiliation for the
unassociated funerary objects on behalf of KonKow Valley Band of Maidu
(a non-federally recognized Tribe).
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West has determined that:
<bullet> The three 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 Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu
Indians of California.
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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 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 cultural items 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 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: April 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08041 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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