90 FR 94 pg. 21071 - Notice of Intended Repatriation: Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 94Page: 21071
Page: 21071Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040148; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-08774 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040148; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony 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 June 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Rose Burns, Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, 1590B Pacheco, Santa Fe, NM 87505, telephone (505) 983-6372, email rburns@coeartscenter.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 Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts, 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 one cultural item has been requested for repatriation. The one sacred object/object of cultural patrimony is a birchbark scroll (NA0274 a).
The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts acquired this item as a gift from Ralph T Coe in 2011. Ralph T Coe acquired NA0274 a in 1974 from Candelaria Trading Post on West San Francisco Street, in Santa Fe, NM. His notes state, "I found out that Monroe P. Killy, the previous owner, had obtained them from Fred K. Blessing." The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts has no further provenance information on this object
There are no known hazardous substances used to treat NA0274.
Determinations
The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts has determined that:
• The one sacred object/object 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 item described in this notice and the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 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 item in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 16, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and not competing requests. The Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts 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: May 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08774 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]
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