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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036494; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: HISTORY Fort Lauderdale, Fort 

Lauderdale, FL 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), HISTORY 

Fort Lauderdale 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. The cultural item was removed 

from the Great Lakes Region. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 2, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Tara Chadwick, HISTORY 

Fort Lauderdale, 219 SW 2nd Avenue, 

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, email 

tchadwick@flhc.org. 

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 HISTORY Fort 

Lauderdale. 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 HISTORY Fort 

Lauderdale. 

Description 

In 1969, a beaded belt with yarn ties 

was donated to the Fort Lauderdale 

Historical Society (HISTORY Fort 

Lauderdale) by Fulton Wells, who stated 

that the item had been gifted by 

‘‘Connecticut Indians’’ to his father, 

Phillip Wells. After consulting with 

Indian Tribes in Connecticut and 

subject matter experts, HISTORY Fort 

Lauderdale has determined that this 

item (accession X–281) most likely is 

associated with the Great Lakes area and 

not Connecticut. Based on information 

provided by the Ho-Chunk Nation of 

Wisconsin, HISTORY Fort Lauderdale 

also has determined that the beaded 

panel belt meets the definition of an 

object of cultural patrimony. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural item in this notice is 

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: geographical, 

historical, oral traditional, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, HISTORY Fort 

Lauderdale has determined that: 

• The one cultural item 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 item and the 

Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural item 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 item in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after October 2, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

HISTORY Fort Lauderdale must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the cultural item 

is considered a single request and not 

competing requests. HISTORY Fort 

Lauderdale 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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036489; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Autry Museum of the American 

West, Los Angeles, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Autry 

Museum of the American West intends 

to repatriate certain cultural items that 

meet the definition of unassociated 

funerary objects and a certain cultural 

item that meets the definition of a 

sacred object, and that have a cultural 

affiliation with the Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The cultural items were removed 

from San Luis Obispo County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 2, 2023. 

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 krichardson@

theautry.org. 

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. 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 Autry Museum of the American 

West. 

Description 

In 1896, the Southwest Museum of 

the American Indian (now part of the 

Autry Museum of the American West) 

purchased a collection from the 

museum’s first curator, Dr. Frank M. 

Palmer. Sometime between 1877 and 

1896, Palmer collected cultural items 

from burials at multiple, unknown sites 

along the coast of San Luis Obispo 

County, CA. The coast of San Luis 

Obispo County is within the aboriginal 

territory of the Chumash and Salinan 

people. The Autry Museum does not 

have possession or control of any 


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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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