Notice2025-14365
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
July 30, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Autry Museum of the American West has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35926-35927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14365]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6363; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040629; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American
West, Los Angeles, 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 Autry Museum of the American West has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Karimah Richardson,
Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los
Angeles, CA 90027, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#eb80998288838a998f988485ab9f838e8a9e9f9992c584998c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1d766f747e757c6f796e72735d6975787c68696f6433726f7a">[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
Autry Museum of the American West, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing at least 16 individuals have been
identified. The 192 associated funerary objects are 28 potsherds, three
debitage, three modified faunal bone fragments, eight shell fragments,
eight unmodified granite stones, 83 Olivella disk beads (two burned),
four glass trade beads, four historic glass fragments, one bag of red
ocher fragments, one ground stone fragment, four metal fragments, 26
faunal fragments, 10 burned faunal bone fragments, one lot of charcoal,
one lot of organics, one lot of textile fragments, one lot of
potsherds, one mortar fragment, two mortar fragments, one possible
metate, and one awl fragment. The human remains and associated funerary
objects (498.G.3468) were recovered during the Southwest Museum
expedition led by museum archaeologists, William and Elizabeth
Campbell, in March 1934, and potentially donated in 1959 to the
Southwest Museum (now part of the Autry Museum of the American West).
The remains were labeled as ``Morongo Valley''. The Campbells only
documented two sites in Morongo Valley from the Lower Morongo Valley
District which they labeled as site 519 and site 520. Unfortunately,
over the decades materials from the two sites have been combined and
the remains from both sites are commingled.
Human remains representing at least one individual have been
identified. The 88 associated funerary objects are one quartz Humboldt
Cluster Point, one burned bone tool, one burned Olivella disc shell
bead, two glass trade beads, eight decorated potsherds, 60 plain body
potsherds, and 15 plain rim potsherds. Human remains and associated
funerary objects (546.G.3-7) were recovered during the Southwest Museum
expedition led by museum archaeologist Elizabeth Campbell in 1932 and
donated in August 1932 to the Southwest Museum (now part of the Autry
Museum of the American West). Records state the remains and associated
funerary objects were collected from Section 13, in Lower Morongo
Valley, CA.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 17 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 280 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Agua
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian
Reservation, California; Cahuilla Band of Indians; Morongo Band of
Mission Indians, California; Ramona Band of Cahuilla, California;
Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, California; and the Yuhaaviatam of San
Manuel Nation (previously listed as San Manuel Band of Mission Indians,
California).
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August
29, 2025.
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If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Autry Museum
of the American West must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request
and not competing requests. The Autry Museum of the American West is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: July 16, 2025.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14365 Filed 7-29-25; 8:45 am]
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