Notice2025-14367
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Published
July 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Berkeley 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 144 (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 35918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14367]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6365; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040631; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, 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 University of California, Berkeley
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.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after August 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Alexandra Lucas, University of
California, Berkeley, 200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#81efe0e6f1f3e0acf4e2e3c1e3e4f3eae4ede4f8afe4e5f4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aac4cbcddad8cb87dfc9c8eac8cfd8c1cfc6cfd384cfcedf">[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
University of California, Berkeley, 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
Between 1954 and 1955, various individuals with the University of
California Archaeological Survey removed 16 lots of objects of cultural
patrimony from CA-RIV-56 in Riverside County, CA. The objects of
cultural patrimony include pottery, worked stone, worked bone,
projectile points, crystals, and faunal remains.
In 1881 S. B. Parrish removed one object of cultural patrimony from
``Whitewater Ranch on edge of Colorado Desert, Riverside, Co.'' The
object was donated to the University of California Museum of
Anthropology (today the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by S.
B. Parrish and W. A. Setchall in 1937. The object of cultural patrimony
is a steatite bowl.
A.E. Michelbacher, a professor of entomology at the University of
California Berkeley, gifted two objects of cultural patrimony from
Thousand Palms, Riverside County, CA to the University of California
Museum of Anthropology in 1943. The objects of cultural patrimony are
pottery.
Collections and collection spaces at the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of
Anthropology were treated with substances for preservation and pest
control, some potentially hazardous. No records have been found to date
at the Museum to indicate whether or not chemicals or natural
substances were used prior to 1960.
Determinations
The University of California, Berkeley has determined that:
<bullet> The 19 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 connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the
Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, 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 29, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the University of California, Berkeley 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. The University of
California, Berkeley 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 16, 2025.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14367 Filed 7-29-25; 8:45 am]
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