Federal Register #2026-22982

National Park Service NAGPRA inventory and repatriation notices

The National Park Service, within the Department of the Interior, published NAGPRA notices about cultural-item inventories and repatriation actions involving three institutions. - Government buyer and organizations: The Department of the Interior’s National Park Service issued the notices. The institutions involved are the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Texas at San Antonio Center for Archaeological Research (UTSA CAR); the William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky; and the USDA Forest Service’s Daniel Boone National Forest. - Items and actions reported: - UC Berkeley intends to repatriate 57 unassociated funerary objects from a family cemetery in Alameda County. Reported objects include beads, a cross used as a grave marker, a fastener, faunal remains, iron, marble, a nail, a pendant, porcelain fragments, potsherds, shells, and tiles; three beads and three shells are missing. - UTSA CAR identified human remains representing at least 17 individuals and 916 associated funerary objects from five Texas sites. Objects include beads, lithic debitage and flakes, projectile points, faunal remains, clay nodules, and soil or soil matrix. - The Webb Museum and Daniel Boone National Forest reported human remains representing at least one individual and 14 associated funerary objects, including faunal, lithic, shell, textile, botanical, charcoal, and sherd lots, as well as a drilled carapace fragment. - Cultural affiliations: The UTSA CAR collection is affiliated with the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Kiowa Tribe; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; and Tonkawa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The UC Berkeley notice identifies known lineal descendants, whose names are withheld. - Procurement status and requirements: These are NAGPRA inventory and repatriation notices, not solicitations for commercial products or services. No OEMs, commercial vendors, part numbers, or contract quantities are specified.

Description

The University of Texas at San Antonio Center for Archaeological Research has completed a NAGPRA inventory of human remains representing at least 17 individuals and 916 associated funerary objects. The remains and objects were excavated from five sites in Texas, and the notice identifies cultural affiliation with several Indian Tribes. Repatriation may occur on or after December 14, 2026. Written repatriation requests are directed to Emily Moes at the Center for Archaeological Research.

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