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human remains associated with these 

items. Based on museum records, the 

Autry Museum has control of 1,510 

unassociated funerary objects that 

Palmer removed from burials. Of this 

number, 1,476 have been located and 34 

currently are missing. The 1,476 

unassociated funerary objects are one 

basket water bottle lined with 

asphaltum, 10 bird bone beads, one 

bone tube with traces of asphaltum, one 

vegetal carved bowl (made from either 

wood, seed, or gourd), 58 brass and 

bronze buttons, one brass bell, one brass 

button, one brass hilt, two charms made 

from spiral fossils, one charm made 

from a concretion, one steatite gorget, 

one historic glass bottle, two chert 

knives, one neck of basket water bottle 

asphaltum lined, two cakes of red ochre, 

one wooden paint cup, one fish 

vertebral bone paint pot, two pestles, 

four shell beads made from scallops, 

one oyster shell spoon, one soap root 

brush, one steatite bowl, one pestle with 

ochre staining, one lot consisting of 

approximately 227 barrel-shaped 

Olivella and clamshell beads (some of 

them burned), and 1,379 glass beads. 

The 34 currently missing unassociated 

funerary objects are one arrow polisher, 

one basket bottom, one breast ornament, 

one burial mat, one carved wood, one 

charm, six cooking pots, one cooking 

stone, one disc, one doll body, one 

fishing line, one head dress, one historic 

bottle, one knife, one medicine stone, 

three mortars, two necklaces, one onyx 

pendant, one pendant, two pestles, two 

shell spoons, one spear head, one 

whistle, and one lot consisting of 

basketry fragments, beads, and bone 

beads. 

In 1935, the Southwest Museum of 

the American Indian (now the Autry 

Museum of the American West) was 

gifted a cultural item by Mr. Clifford 

Park Baldwin, who worked for the 

Southwest Museum from 1933 to 1937, 

in various capacities. Sometime 

between 1911 and 1935, Mr. Baldwin 

collected the item from Morro Bay in 

San Luis Obispo County, CA. Morro Bay 

is within the aboriginal territory of the 

Chumash people and Salinan people. 

During consultation with tribal 

representatives from the Santa Ynez 

Band of Chumash Mission Indians of 

the Sant Ynez Reservation, California, 

the item was identified as an 

unassociated funerary object. The one 

unassociated funerary is a faunal bone 

hairpin. 

In 1939, the Southwest Museum of 

the American Indian (now the Autry 

Museum of the American West) was 

gifted a cultural item by Mr. Willy Stahl, 

who worked for the Southwest Museum 

from 1937 to 1948. Mr. Stahl collected 

the item from Sandspit Beach, near 

Santa Maria in Santa Maria Valley, CA. 

Since 1965, the beach has been part of 

Montana de Oro State Park. Santa Maria 

Valley is within the aboriginal territory 

of the Chumash and Salinan people. 

During consultation with tribal 

representatives from the Santa Ynez 

Band of Chumash Mission Indians of 

the Sant Ynez Reservation, California, 

the item was identified as an 

unassociated funerary object. The one 

unassociated funerary is a faunal bone 

hairpin fragment. 

In 1944, the Southwest Museum of 

the American Indian (now the Autry 

Museum of the American West) was 

gifted a cultural item by Mr. Franklin R. 

Johnston, an archeologist. Sometime 

between 1930 and 1944 (inclusive), 

Johnston collected the item, a small 

pestle, at his campsite on Pismo Beach, 

in San Luis Obispo County, CA. Pismo 

Beach is within the aboriginal territory 

of the Chumash and Salinan people. 

During consultation with tribal 

representatives from the Santa Ynez 

Band of Chumash Mission Indians of 

the Sant Ynez Reservation, California, 

the pestle was identified as a ceremonial 

object. The Chumash, as well as other 

southern Californian Indians within the 

area view small pestles like this one as 

sacred objects. The one sacred object is 

a pestle. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological, 

geographical, oral traditional, and 

historical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Autry Museum of the 

American West has determined that: 

• The 1,512 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains 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 a Native American individual. 

• The one cultural item described 

above is a specific ceremonial object 

needed by traditional Native American 

religious leaders for the practice of 

traditional Native American religions by 

their present-day adherents. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash 

Mission Indians of the Sant Ynez 

Reservation, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in 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 October 2, 2023. 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 cultural items 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 Tribe identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: August 23, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18818 Filed 8–30–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036500; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: San Francisco State University 

NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San 

Francisco State University NAGPRA 

Program intends to repatriate certain 


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cultural items that meet the definition of 

objects of cultural patrimony and that 

have a cultural affiliation with the 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The 

cultural items were removed from 

Placer County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 2, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program, 1600 Holloway 

Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, 

telephone (415) 405–3545, email zlatt@

sfsu.edu. 

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 San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records held 

by the San Francisco State NAGPRA 

Program. 

Description 

In 1964, cultural items were 

excavated and removed from sites PLA– 

1, PLA–14, PLA–25, PLA–H–7, PLA–H– 

11, PLA–H–12, PLA–19, and PLA–UNK 

in Placer County, CA. Upon the closure 

of the Tregenza Anthropology Museum 

in 2012, the cultural items were 

transferred to the San Francisco State 

University NAGPRA program. The 

objects of cultural patrimony are 15 lots 

consisting of modified stone, modified 

metal, and other objects. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: oral traditional, 

anthropological, archeological, 

geographical, historical, linguistic, other 

relevant information, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program has determined that: 

• The 15 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the United Auburn Indian Community 

of the Auburn Rancheria of California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in 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 October 2, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the San Francisco State NAGPRA 

Program must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribe identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: August 23, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18825 Filed 8–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036497; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Anchorage, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM Alaska) has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

removed from a site in the Yukon 

Willow Creek area about 25 miles south 

of Nulato, AK, in the Yukon-Koyukuk 

Census Area, AK. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after October 2, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Robert E. King, Bureau of 

Land Management, 222 W. 7th Avenue, 

#13, Anchorage, AK 99513, telephone 

(907) 271–5510, email r2king@blm.gov. 

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 BLM Alaska. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by BLM Alaska. 

Description 

In 1935, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed from the Yukon Willow Creek 

site in the middle Yukon Valley, about 

25 miles south of Nulato, AK. The 

human remains, which are estimated to 

be over 200 years old, were removed by 

Frederica de Laguna, who at that time 

was associated with the University of 

Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology 

and Anthropology in Philadelphia, PA. 

The human remains were brought back 

to the Museum, where they are 

currently being held in collections [PM# 

35–21–149]. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological and 

oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 


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