Notice2025-14165
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
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Published
July 28, 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 sacred objects/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 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35550-35551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14165]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6331; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040520; 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 sacred
objects/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 August 27, 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#5a303928353433341a2e2f282e363f383b237435283d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aac0c9d8c5c4c3c4eadedfd8dec6cfc8cbd384c5d8cd">[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 38 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The 38 sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony are basketry,
regalia, personal items, adornments, a fishing implement, and a stone
tool. These belongings have been determined to be of Yurok origin and
craftsmanship.
A ``tourist trinket'' basket and a leather-and-bear-claw headdress
were purchased by the Redding Museum and Art Center (RMAC; TBEP's
founding institution) in 1963 from Fred Taber. Taber's father (1882-
1959) owned an antique shop in Central Valley, CA, through which he
amassed a personal collection of Native American items.
Two dentalium necklaces (one with abalone), a fine basket cap, an
elk horn purse, and a cradle basket were purchased from Emilie Hoag
Buckingham (1911-1997) in 1964. Emilie's large basket collection was
primarily amassed by her grandmother, Emily Perkins Smith (1842-?), and
added to by her mother Maude Smith Hoag (1872-1957); both lived in the
San Francisco Bay Area. The collection was housed at the California
State Indian Museum for a period of time before coming to RMAC in 1964.
In 1968, Mrs. Evelyn Wood of Anderson, CA, donated a basket cap (c.
1950). She received it from friends while working as a social worker
along the Klamath River between 1950 and 1955. Later in 1968, I.T.
Riley donated a doll cradle basket (c. 1920), made for Irene Temerance
Miller at Requa, CA.
In 1971, the Redding Museum League raised funds for RMAC to
purchase a clamshell necklace from the Alice Dunaway collection through
Fred Casebeer. Alice, a collector from Happy Camp, CA, began acquiring
baskets in 1921 and continued until her death in 1982. Many of the
baskets were made by her Karuk mother, accepted as payment for room and
board, or acquired for their beauty.
On April 19, 1972, the Museum purchased a pair of abalone and
dentalia hair ties, mink and woodpecker hair wraps, and a mink and
woodpecker wrap purse from John Becker of Eureka, CA, and accessioned
them in 1973. These items originated from Mettah Village in Yurok
territory.
In 1974, RMAC purchased a basalt maul from Geddes Harper of Eureka,
CA, attributed to the Coastal Yurok. It was accessioned the same year.
In 1976, from Don Boyd of Redding, RMAC acquired a fishing spear
toggle composed of pitch with a modern nail as a point. Boyd was an
artist and art instructor at Shasta College, involved in their
Archaeology Program, and an avocational archaeologist. He was also an
avid collector of art and Indigenous belongings.
In 1981, the Museum purchased two basketry items from the large
collection of Mrs. V. Lovell of Sacramento, CA. These included a
``tourist-type'' bowl (c. 1920) and a cap.
In 1982, RMAC purchased three baskets from the Clarke Museum in
Eureka, CA which deaccessioned a small portion of its Native American
basketry to other nonprofit institutions in accordance with its bylaws.
The baskets included a flour tray (c.1870-1880), a food drying basket
(c.1920), and a storage basket (c.1890), the latter attributed to
Coastal Yurok.
In 1990, the Museum acquired 10 basketry items from Agnes Rodli,
who obtained them while living in Weitchpec, CA, between 1945 and 1947.
The collection includes a tobacco basket, a plaque, two bowls, three
miniature cradles, a miniature gathering basket, a miniature bowl, and
a miniature eel trap, all dating from the 1940s.
In 2014, Carolyn Bond donated a basket bowl, a basket bottle, and
two basket caps from her personal collection. The bowl appears to have
been designed for a lid, though none accompanied it to the Museum.
Carolyn acquired the bowl in 1970 and the bottle in 1972. The caps were
purchased in 1975 from Mrs. Argo of Old Station, CA. Carolyn, former
Museum Director of RMAC, acquired these baskets before assuming the
role in 1977 and retired in 1988.
In 2019, Jack Hauenstein, an avid collector of Indigenous
belongings, baskets in particular, donated four baskets to TBEP. These
included three bowls and one tobacco basket.
TBEP does not treat Indigenous belongings with hazardous materials.
However, it is not documented whether these items received treatment
prior to the care of RMAC.
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Determinations
Turtle Bay Exploration Park has determined that:
<bullet> The 38 sacred objects/objects 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
items described in this notice and the Pulikla Tribe of Yurok People
(previously listed as Resighini 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 August 27, 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: July 1, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14165 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
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