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 LMA, 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 object of cultural patrimony is a ceramic olla (15301) with a round bottom and narrow neck, painted with zig zag and other designs. The olla was acquired by Horatio Nelson Rust (1828-1906) who documented that it was made by the Mission Indians at Palm Springs, California. Rust moved to Pasadena, California in 1882 and from 1889 to 1893 served as Indian Agent for the California Mission-Tule River Consolidated Agency. Rust used his position to grow his private collection and surreptitiously acquired items. Rust sold a large portion of his collection to Frank Granger Logan in 1892. Logan commissioned Rust to exhibit the collection on his behalf at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. In 1894, Logan donated the collection to Beloit College, founding the LMA. Museum records do not confirm whether this item was acquired voluntarily or under duress, or whether the item was obtained with the voluntary consent of a person or group with the authority to alienate the item. As a result, the LMA does not assert right of possession. The LMA has no record of treating the cultural item with potentially hazardous substances.

Determinations

The LMA 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 connection between the cultural item described in this notice and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California.

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 September 14, 2026. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the LMA 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 LMA 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.

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