[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 63970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17259]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038397; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intended Repatriation: Autry Museum of the American 
West, Los Angeles, CA, and Pasadena City College, 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), Autry Museum of the American West and 
Pasadena City College intend to repatriate certain cultural items that 
meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects 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 September 5, 2024.

ADDRESSES: 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, telephone (323) 
495-4203, email [email protected].

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 Pasadena City College, 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 two lots of cultural items have been requested for 
repatriation. The two unassociated funerary objects are one lot of 
shell beads and one lot of woven grass mat fragments. In an unknown 
year, an unknown collector collected cultural material from unknown 
site(s) on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands, in Santa Barbara County, 
CA. Mr. Keith Dixon (1073.G) obtained the shell beads from Pasadena 
City College at an unknown year. Additionally, Mr. Dixon collected the 
woven sea grass mat at an unknown year from an unknown burial site on 
Santa Rosa Island. Mr. Dixon gifted the cultural items to the Southwest 
Museum in 1946.

Determinations

    The Autry Museum of the American West and Pasadena City College has 
determined that:
     The two lots of unassociated funerary objects described 
above are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or 
near individual human remains, and are connected, either at the time of 
death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony and are believed, 
by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a 
specific burial site of an individual or individuals with cultural 
affiliation to an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
     There is a reasonable connection between the cultural 
items 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 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 September 5, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Autry Museum of the American West and 
Pasadena City College 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 
Autry Museum of the American West and Pasadena City College 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 25, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-17259 Filed 8-5-24; 8:45 am]
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