Placer County Museums Division to Repatriate Cultural Patrimony Item Under NAGPRA
July 16, 2026
July 16, 2026
WASHINGTON, July 16 (TNSFR) -- Placer County Museums Division, Auburn, California, intends to repatriate an object of cultural patrimony under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), according to a notice published by the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service.
The cultural item is a set of stringed beads that may have been used as burial beads and was donated to the museum in 1948 by Alice Ainsworth. The division determined the item orig . . .
The cultural item is a set of stringed beads that may have been used as burial beads and was donated to the museum in 1948 by Alice Ainsworth. The division determined the item orig . . .