Notice2025-08772
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
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Published
May 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Oakland Museum of California intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 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 94 (Friday, May 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21062-21063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08772]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040146; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Oakland Museum of California,
Oakland, 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 Oakland Museum of California intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 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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DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after June 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Anna Bunting, Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street,
Oakland, CA 94607, telephone 510-318-8493, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f19f9096818390b19c848294849c9290df9e8396"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="751b14120507143518000610001816145b1a0712">[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
Oakland Museum of California, 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 15 cultural items, or lots of items, have been requested
for repatriation. The 15 objects of cultural patrimony are baskets,
awls, a cocoon rattle, gambling bones, ear ornaments, a salmon-gig, an
arrow straightener, a flute, a sinker stone, and valley quail scalps.
Fourteen of these items were collected by Charles P. Wilcomb
between September 29-November 28, 1911 and were removed from Butte
County at that time. They were acquired by the Oakland Public Museum on
December 11, 1911.
Museum records for these 14 items show one cocoon rattle and one
set of four gambling bones were received from Capt. Charlie, Cherokee,
Butte County. One basket and one set of awls were received from a woman
identified as Dixie's wife at Camp Creek, Feather River Canyon, Butte
County. One basket, one pair of ear ornaments, one salmon-gig, one awl,
one arrow straightener, one flute, one sinker stone, and one lot of
four male valley quail scalps were received from Oscar Johnson, Dogwood
Rancheria, Feather River Canyon, Butte County. Two baskets were
received from Jeff Grant, Chino Creek, Feather River Canyon.
One basket was also collected by Charles P. Wilcomb but is without
a collecting date. This basket is listed in museum records as having
been collected at Berry Creek, Butte County. It was donated to the
Oakland Public Museum on December 7, 1915 by Louise Wilcomb, Charles
Wilcomb's daughter, after his death in 1915.
The Oakland Public Museum and its collections were merged into the
Oakland Museum of California in 1969.
The presence of potentially hazardous substances on these
particular items is unknown.
Determinations
The Oakland Museum of California has determined that:
<bullet> The 15 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 Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu
Indians of 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 June 16, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Oakland Museum of California 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 Oakland Museum of
California 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: May 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08772 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]
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