[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 39 (Monday, February 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11092-11093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04107]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033438; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at 
the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles 
(Fowler Museum at UCLA), in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the 
cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of sacred 
objects and objects of cultural patrimony. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items 
should submit a written request to the Fowler Museum at UCLA. If no 
additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural 
items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian 
organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

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DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to the Fowler Museum at UCLA at the 
address in this notice by March 30, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum 
at UCLA, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-
1864, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of the Fowler Museum at the University of California Los 
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, that meet both the definition of sacred 
objects and the definition of objects of cultural patrimony under 25 
U.S.C. 3001.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The 
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    In 1981, Steven and Susan Nelson gifted two Navajo medicine bundles 
(X81.197 and X81.196) to the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and in 1984, they 
gifted a suitcase of Navajo Yei ceremony dance regalia (X84.224) to the 
Museum. The two medicine bundles and one set of dance regalia are both 
sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony.
    The Navajo medicine bundles and dance regalia are used in current 
traditional religious ceremonial practice. These items are significant 
to the Navajo people, and they are considered both ``sacred objects'' 
and ``objects of cultural patrimony'' due to their having ongoing 
historical, traditional, and cultural importance central to Navajo 
(Din[eacute]) culture, spirituality, and religion.

Determinations Made by the Fowler Museum at the University of 
California Los Angeles

    Officials of the Fowler Museum at the University of California Los 
Angeles have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), the three cultural items 
described above are specific ceremonial objects needed by traditional 
Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional 
Native American religions by their present-day adherents.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the three cultural items 
described above have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural 
importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, 
rather than property owned by an individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the sacred 
objects and objects of cultural patrimony and the Navajo Nation, 
Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum at 
UCLA, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, 
email [email protected], by March 30, 2022. After that date, if no 
additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the 
sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony to the Navajo Nation, 
Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah may proceed.
    The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles is 
responsible for notifying the Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & 
Utah that this notice has been published.

    Dated: February 16, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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