Notice2025-08774
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
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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 Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/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 94 (Friday, May 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 21071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08774]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040148; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts,
Santa Fe, NM
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 Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts intends
to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/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 June 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Rose Burns, Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, 1590B Pacheco,
Santa Fe, NM 87505, telephone (505) 983-6372, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#82f0e0f7f0ecf1c2e1ede7e3f0f6f1e1e7ecf6e7f0acedf0e5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fa88988f889489ba99959f9b888e89999f948e9f88d495889d">[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
Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, 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 one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The one sacred object/object of cultural patrimony is a birchbark
scroll (NA0274 a).
The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts acquired this item as a gift
from Ralph T Coe in 2011. Ralph T Coe acquired NA0274 a in 1974 from
Candelaria Trading Post on West San Francisco Street, in Santa Fe, NM.
His notes state, ``I found out that Monroe P. Killy, the previous
owner, had obtained them from Fred K. Blessing.'' The Ralph T Coe
Center for the Arts has no further provenance information on this
object
There are no known hazardous substances used to treat NA0274.
Determinations
The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts has determined that:
<bullet> The one sacred object/object of cultural patrimony
described in this notice are, according to the Native American
traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional
Native American religious leader for present-day adherents to practice
traditional Native American religion, and 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).
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item
described in this notice and the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians
of Montana.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after June 16, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts 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. 2025-08774 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]
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