Notice2025-15963
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove, CA
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Published
August 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (Pacific Grove Museum) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 160 (Thursday, August 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40852-40853]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15963]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6392; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040688; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural
History, Pacific Grove, 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 Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
(Pacific Grove Museum) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item
that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that
has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after September 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural item in this notice to Rachel M. Miller, Pacific Grove Museum
of Natural History, 165 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#14797d787871665464737961677161793a7b6673"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ee838782828b9cae9e89839b9d8b9b83c0819c89">[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
Pacific Grove Museum 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 cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The item is described as a pipe made of steatite. The pipe is a gray-
green speckled with a smooth texture to the stone. The steatite pipe
measures out to be four inches in length. The pipe is believed to have
originated in Puget Sound, eight miles south of Tacoma Washington in
Pierce County. This item was found on the property of Roland Wilson;
Pierce Co. Wash collected in the late 1880s and collected or
accessioned by the museum in 1899 through various collectors and donors
including: Roland Wilson.
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History informs the Puyallup
Tribe of Indian that it has no record of this item
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being treated with pesticides, preservatives, or any other substance
that presents a potential hazard to the object, or to any person or
persons handling the objects.
Determinations
The Pacific Grove Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The one object 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 item described
in this notice and the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after September 22, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Pacific Grove Museum must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Pacific Grove Museum 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 15, 2025.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-15963 Filed 8-20-25; 8:45 am]
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