Notice2025-10009
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
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Published
June 3, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of a sacred object and object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 23562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10009]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040178; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Fine Arts Center at Colorado
College, Colorado Springs, CO
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 Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition
of a sacred object and object of cultural patrimony and that has a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after July 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Michael Christiano, Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, 30
W Dale Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903, telephone (719) 477-4311,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#420c030512100302212d2e2d3023262d212d2e2e2725276c272637"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d333c3a2d2f3c3d1e1211120f1c19121e121111181a1853181908">[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
Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, 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 hide painting.
The painting (TM 514), known as ``God the Father'', originated from the
Santa Ana de Tamaya Mission Church, in Santa Ana Pueblo, Sandoval
County, New Mexico, and is documented in mission inventories dated 1697
to 1712. It was later obtained by Fred Harvey Indian Department
agents--most likely through ``Harvey anthropologist'' Herman Schweizer
in the 1930s--and accessioned by the Taylor Museum (now the Fine Arts
Center at Colorado College) in 1941-1942. The cultural item is
attributed to the Pueblo of Santa Ana. In April 2025, a handheld XRF
Spectrometer detected lead and mercury in the paint pigments; no other
hazardous substances were identified.
Determinations
The Fine Arts Center at Colorado College has determined that:
<bullet> The one sacred object/object of cultural patrimony
described in this notice is, according to the Native American
traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, a specific ceremonial object needed by a traditional
Native American religious leader for present-day adherents to practice
traditional Native American religion, and has 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 Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico.
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 July 3, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College 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 Fine Arts Center at Colorado College 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 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-10009 Filed 6-2-25; 8:45 am]
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