Notice2025-17625
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, Santa Barbara, Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections, Santa Barbara, CA
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Published
September 12, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 175 (Friday, September 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44221-44222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17625]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6514; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041060; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, Santa
Barbara, Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections,
Santa Barbara, 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, Santa Barbara
(UCSB), Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition
of an unassociated funerary object 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 October 14, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Hugh Radde, University of California,
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2f616e687f7d6e6f5a4c5c4d014a4b5a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4b050a0c1b190a0b3e283829652e2f3e">[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
UCSB Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections, 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
(Accession 250.100). The one unassociated funerary object is a modified
stone object made of serpentine. In 1961, Heath Taylor of Los Angeles
Community College removed the object from a child's burial somewhere
near present-day Paradise Cove, near Malibu in Los Angeles County, CA.
The object was later given to David Jennings, a Professor at Los
Angeles Community College. In 1981, Professor Jennings donated the item
to UCSB. It is unknown whether the item was treated with preservatives
or other potentially hazardous substances.
Determinations
The UCSB Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections
has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary object described in this
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or
near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death or
later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary object has been identified by a preponderance of
the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a connection between the cultural item described
in this notice and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of
the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.
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
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or after October 14, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are
received, the UCSB Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic
Collections 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 UCSB
Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections 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: August 29, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-17625 Filed 9-11-25; 8:45 am]
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