Notice2025-11137
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Published
June 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) 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 115 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25626-25627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11137]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040403; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, San Francisco, 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 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(FAMSF) 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 July 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Christina Hellmich, Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
94118, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d8bbb0bdb4b4b5b1bbb098beb9b5abbef6b7aabf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="57343f323b3b3a3e343f1731363a243179382530">[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 FAMSF
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 two cultural item lots have been requested for
repatriation. The two objects of cultural patrimony are one lot of
pestles and one lot of mortars. These two lots of cultural items (FAMSF
Accession 51890) were removed at some point, before 1924, from Folsom,
CA. These cultural items were gifted to FAMSF by Mr. Raymer W. Hayes in
memory of Colonel John F. Hayes in 1924. In 1964, FAMSF loaned part of
one lot to the East Bay Regional Parks District. In 2019, East Bay
Regional Parks returned one item to FAMSF. There is no documentation of
the presence of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat any
of the cultural items.
Determinations
FAMSF has determined that:
<bullet> Two lots of 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 Shingle Springs Band of Miwok
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; United
Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California; and the
Wilton Rancheria, 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 July 17, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, FAMSF 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. FAMSF 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: June 11, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11137 Filed 6-16-25; 8:45 am]
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