Notice2025-11937
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
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Published
June 27, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Turtle Bay Exploration Park (TBEP) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects 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 122 (Friday, June 27, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 27659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11937]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040435; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Turtle Bay Exploration Park,
Redding, 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), Turtle Bay Exploration Park (TBEP) intends
to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects 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 July 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Julia Cronin, Turtle Bay Exploration
Park, 844 Sundial Bridge Drive, Redding, CA 96001, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ff959c8d90919691bf8b8a8d8b939a9d9e86d1908d98"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="432920312c2d2a2d03373631372f2621223a6d2c3124">[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 TBEP,
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 lot of cultural items has been requested for
repatriation. The one lot of unassociated funerary objects are
Corneline D'aleppo glass trade beads mounted in a large frame.
These beads were purchased by the Redding Museum and Art Center,
now Turtle Bay Exploration Park, in 1972 from Troy Crisp, a Texas-born
collector who lived briefly in Northern California. Crisp acquired a
large collection of Native American and Indigenous Mexican Belongings
over his lifetime through vacations, purchases from other collectors,
and spending time outdoors hiking and surveying for surface finds. He
primarily added to his collection through his business operating heavy
equipment to clear brush land. It is unclear how or when he obtained
the beads.
Museum records state the beads were ``found'' in 1969 at a mound in
Placerville, California. Mounds are culturally and historically
significant to many Native Americans. Based on their location and other
factors, the beads were culturally attributed to the Miwok or Maidu.
Placerville, the county seat of El Dorado County, California, is near
the Shingle Springs Rancheria, whose members are descendants of the
Miwok and Maidu peoples who once lived in the region where the beads
were recovered.
Turtle Bay Exploration Park does not treat Indigenous Belongings
with hazardous materials. However, it is not documented whether these
items received treatment prior to the care of the Redding Museum and
Art Center.
Determinations
Turtle Bay Exploration Park has determined that:
<bullet> The one lot of unassociated funerary objects described in
this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally
with or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native
American culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge
of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization.
The unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a
preponderance of the evidence as related to human remains, specific
individuals, or families, or removed from a specific burial site or
burial area 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 Shingle Springs Band of Miwok
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), 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 28, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, TBEP 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. TBEP 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 17, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11937 Filed 6-26-25; 8:45 am]
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