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National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

A total of five cultural items have 

been requested for repatriation by the 

Onondaga Nation of NY. The five sacred 

objects of cultural patrimony are false 

face masks and rattles. 

Miniature Cornhusk Mask (object 

number 66.87.4), False Face Mask 

(object number 66.87.7), Miniature 

Cornhusk Mask (object number 

66.113.3), Snapping Turtle Claw Rattles 

(object number 67.86.3ab), and False 

Face Mask (object number 59.1) are 

listed in Brooklyn Children’s Museum 

records as ‘‘Onondaga.’’ The items were 

reportedly acquired in North America 

and gifted to or purchased by Brooklyn 

Children’s Museum between 1959– 

1982. Brooklyn Children’s Museum 

records indicate no known hazardous 

substances. 

Determinations 

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum has 

determined that: 

• The five sacred objects/objects of 

cultural patrimony described in this 

notice are, according to the Native 

American traditional knowledge of an 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization, specific ceremonial objects 

needed by a traditional Native American 

religious leader for present-day 

adherents to practice traditional Native 

American religion, and have ongoing 

historical, traditional, or cultural 

importance central to the Native 

American group, including any 

constituent sub-group (such as a band, 

clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or 

other subdivision). 

• There is a reasonable connection 

between the cultural items described in 

this notice and the Onondaga Nation. 

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 January 29, 2025. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Brooklyn Children’s Museum 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 

Brooklyn Children’s Museum 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: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31285 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039247; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Repatriation: 

University of Oregon, Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, 

OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History 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 in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Pamela Endzweig, 

Director of Anthropological Collections, 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, 1224 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 

97403–1224, telephone (541) 346–5120, 

email endzweig@uoregon.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 University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History 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 

One cultural item has been requested 

for repatriation. The one object of 

cultural patrimony, catalog 2–967, is a 

coiled basket donated in 1937 by former 

University of Oregon student A. (Ada) 

Ossie Walton (1867–1944). A newspaper 

article, which appears to be from 1937, 

mentions that Walton began collecting 

while still a student. She graduated in 

1885. A hand-written note in the 

Museum’s accessions files, which we 

presume to be the donor’s, lists the 

basket as ‘‘Large basket (told one of 

tribes adjoining Navahoes)’’. This is also 

what the partial old label on the base of 

the basket reads. We believe this to be 

an incorrect identification. Museum 

staff have described the coiled basket as 

‘‘Mission style’’ and attributed it to 

Southern California Native peoples. 

There is no additional information in 

the Museum’s files relating to the 

provenance of the basket. 

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: expert opinion, 

including Native American traditional 

knowledge. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of Oregon 

Museum of Natural and Cultural History 

has determined that: 

• The one object of cultural 

patrimony described in this notice has 

ongoing historical, traditional, or 

cultural importance central to the 

Native American group, including any 

constituent sub-group (such as a band, 

clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or 

other subdivision), according to the 

Native American traditional knowledge 

of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

• There is a reasonable connection 

between the cultural item described in 

this notice and the Pechanga Band of 

Indians (previously listed as Pechanga 

Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the 

Pechanga Reservation, California). 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural item in this 


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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 item in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 29, 2025. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History 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 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History 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: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31284 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039255; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of California, Riverside, 

Riverside, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of California, Riverside 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 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University 

of California, Riverside, 900 University 

Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900, 

telephone (951) 827–6349, email 

megan.murphy@ucr.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 University of 

California, Riverside, and additional 

information on the determinations in 

this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

inventory or related records. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Based on the information available, 

human remains representing, at least, 

one individual has been reasonably 

identified. The three associated funerary 

objects are one lot of lithic materials, 

one lot of pottery sherds, and one lot of 

grinding stones. In 1975, the University 

of California, Riverside Archaeological 

Research Unit (UCRARU) was 

contracted by Hirsch and Koptionak 

Consulting Engineers and Planners to 

conduct an archaeological filed 

reconnaissance of the Mason Valley 

Ranch. The property is in Oriflamme 

Canyon, adjacent to the Anza-Borrego 

Desert State Park in central San Diego 

County. During the survey 

archaeologists recorded twenty 

archaeological sites and a test unit in 

archaeological site CA–SDI–4812. 

Archaeologists removed approximately 

175 items from the unit including 

pottery sherds, lithic materials, and 

grinding stones. A burnt bone fragment 

was also removed from the unit and 

initially identified as faunal remains. In 

2024, at the request of tribal 

representatives, an osteologist reviewed 

the bone fragment and identified it as a 

human rib fragment. During 

consultation tribal representatives also 

identified the objects in the collection to 

be associated funerary objects. In the 

report for the project, ARU Report #151, 

archaeologists noted that cremation 

burials have been previously identified 

in the canyon as well as village sites and 

surface artifacts. Tribal representatives 

confirmed this to be true during 

consultation and noted that they had 

conducted repatriations of other burials 

removed from the area. 

Cultural Affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is clearly identified by the 

information available about the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice. 

Determinations 

The University of California, 

Riverside has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The three 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 reasonable connection 

between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Campo Band of 

Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo 

Indian Reservation, California; Capitan 

Grande Band of Diegueno Mission 

Indians of California (Barona Group of 

Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians 

of the Barona Reservation, California; 

Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan 

Grande Band of Mission Indians of the 

Viejas Reservation, California); 

Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay 

Indians, California; Iipay Nation of 

Santa Ysabel, California; Inaja Band of 

Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja 

and Cosmit Reservation, California; 

Jamul Indian Village of California; La 

Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians 

of the La Posta Indian Reservation, 

California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno 

Mission Indians of the Manzanita 

Reservation, California; Mesa Grande 

Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 

the Mesa Grande Reservation, 

California; San Pasqual Band of 

Diegueno Mission Indians of California; 

and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay 

Nation. 

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 January 29, 2025. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 


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