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Determinations 

The SNOMNH has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 388 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 507 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a connection between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects described in this notice and the 

Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and the 

Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, 

Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), 

Oklahoma. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

authorized representative identified in 

this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests 

for repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. 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 human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after December 26, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the SNOMNH must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The SNOMNH is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: November 18, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27506 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039105; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: The 

Kikuchi Center at Kaua1i Community 

College, Lı ̄hu1e, HI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Kikuchi Center at Kaua1i Community 

College has completed an inventory of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects and has determined that there is 

a cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

December 26, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Jason Ford, The Kikuchi 

Center at Kaua1i Community College, 3– 

1901 Kaumuali1i Highway, Lı ̄hu1e, HI 

96766, telephone (808) 245–8236, email 

jford9@hawaii.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 Kikuchi Center 

at Kaua1i Community College, and 

additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in its inventory or related records. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Human remains representing, at least, 

one individual have been identified. 

The five associated funerary objects are 

four bone artifacts and one bone fish 

hook. Item: Iwi Kupuna (human 

remains), including modified bone 

fragments, and associated funerary 

objects. Site Name: 14–115 II Barber’s 

Point, Kalaeloa, Honouliuli, 1Ewa, O1ahu 

Geographical Location: Kalaeloa, 

Honouliuli, 1Ewa, O1ahu. Collection 

History: The Kikuchi Center is an 

archive curating the work of Dr. William 

Kikuchi. Dr. Kikuchi co-founded the 

Archaeology Research Center of Hawaii, 

ARCH, with Francis Ching, Jr. He 

inherited a collection of ARCH project 

materials, including ARCH project 14– 

115 II. This project was an intensive 

survey and excavation for the harbor 

expansion at Barber’s Point for the State 

of Hawai1i and the U.S. Army Corps. 

Barber’s Point is Kalaeloa, located in the 

ahupua1a Honouliuli, moku of 1Ewa. 

These materials were excavated in 1980 

and the founding of the Kikuchi Center 

and processing of these materials began 

in September 2022. In March of 2024, an 

osteologist analyzed the bones in the 

collection and positively identified the 

modified humerus as human. These 

bones are associated with Native 

Hawaiian sites and cultural layers. The 

76 modified bones listed here are 

unidentifiable due to their size and state 

of modification, but because they were 

associated with the positively identified 

iwi kupuna, are being listed for 

consultation and repatriation, and 

treated as human. Due to the possibility 

of the bone artifacts also being human 

and their close association with the 

positively identified bone, they are also 

listed as associated burial objects. Some 

bones may be coated in a clear lacquer 

with individual artifact numbers that 

are now dissociated from data. 

Cultural Affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is reasonably identified by the 

geographical location or acquisition 

history of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice. Kalaeloa Heritage and 

Legacy Foundation has offered their 

burial vault and to enact reinterment 

protocols, if required, and defer 

consultation to include other Native 

Hawaiian organizations. 

Determinations 

The Kikuchi Center at Kaua1i 

Community College has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

Hawaiian ancestry. Modified bone and 

bone fragments in associated with 

positively identified iwi kupuna are also 

being offered for repatriation. 

• The five objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a connection between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects described in this notice and the 

Kalaeloa Heritage and Legacy 

Foundation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 


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authorized representative identified in 

this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests 

for repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. 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 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization with cultural affiliation. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after December 26, 

2024. If competing requests for 

repatriation are received, the Kikuchi 

Center at Kaua1i Community College 

must determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Kikuchi Center 

at Kaua1i Community College is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: November 18, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27510 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039096; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Repatriation: 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 

(Southwest Museum Collection) intends 

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 

December 26, 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 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, 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 four lots of cultural items 

have been requested for repatriation. 

The one lot of unassociated funerary 

objects are faunal bone beads. In 1931, 

Sacramento Junior College 

archaeological field party including 

student Henry Gibbs, collected cultural 

items from Lincoln Mound (CA–Pla– 

14), Placer County, CA. Dr. L.B. Lillard, 

President of Sacramento Junior College, 

donated the cultural items in 1935 to 

the Southwest Museum (now part of 

Autry Museum of the American West). 

The three lots of unassociated 

funerary objects are two lots of shell 

ornaments and one lot of cooking 

stones. The ornaments were found in 

collections in 2001, with a label of 

‘‘Verona Mound, Maidu area, Adult 

burial’’. Verona Mound is an 

archaeological site CA-Sut-11, in Sutter 

County, CA. It is unknown when the 

cultural items entered the Southwest 

Museum. However, based on 

institutional history, the cultural items 

could potentially be part of the cultural 

items recovered from Sacramento Junior 

College archaeological field party. 

Sacramento Junior College President 

Lillard gifted cultural items from 

various sites in 1935 to the Southwest 

Museum (now Autry Museum of the 

American West). 

Determinations 

The Autry Museum of the American 

West has determined that: 

• The four 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 Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California 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 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 December 26, 2024. 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 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: November 18, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27504 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039097; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 


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