Notice2025-14802
Notice of Inventory Completion: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
August 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Autry Museum of the American West (Southwest Museum Collection) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 37552]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14802]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6402; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040774; 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
(Southwest Museum Collection) has completed an inventory of associated
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after September 4, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the associated
funerary objects in this notice to Karimah Richardson, M.Phil., RPA,
Associate Curator of Anthropology and Repatriation Supervisor, Autry
Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA
90027, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ef849d868c878e9d8b9c8081af9b878a8e9a9b9d96c1809d88"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="472c352e242f26352334282907332f22263233353e69283520">[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 the inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, six lots of associated funerary
objects are found to be associated with human remains listed in a
Notice of Completion published in the Federal Register on August 6,
2024 (89 FR 63965) for San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara County, Channel
Islands, CA. The six lots of associated funerary objects are one knife,
one chopper, one blade fragment, one drill, one point fragment, and one
lot of pries. The cultural items were found after the notice with the
San Miguel Island human remains was published. The cultural items were
found in a tray and are individually labeled with ``San Miguel Island''
and ``surface'' written on them, the same label and handwriting found
on the human remains. A note was also found with the items saying the
San Miguel Island cranial bones were removed from this tray and moved
to sit with the rest of the human remains. It is unknown when cultural
items were collected, or when they came into the Southwest Museum (now
part of the Autry Museum).
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 associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The Autry Museum of the American West has determined that:
<bullet> The six lots of 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 reasonable connection between the associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the Santa Ynez Band of
Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after September 4, 2025. 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 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 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14802 Filed 8-4-25; 8:45 am]
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