Notice2023-12284
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, and University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Published
June 8, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) intend to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony, and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37577-37578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12284]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035979; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: University of
California, Davis, Davis, CA, and University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC
Davis) and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) intend to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects and certain cultural items that meet the
definition of objects of cultural patrimony, and that have a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice. The cultural items were removed from Sacramento County,
CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after July 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
telephone (530) 752-8501, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a9c4c7c6cbc5cce9dccacdc8dfc0da87cccddc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="365b5859545a537643555257405f4518535243">[email protected]</span></a>, and Alex Lucas,
Repatriation Coordinator, University of California, Berkeley, Office of
Government and Community Relations, 120 California Hall, Berkeley, CA
94720, telephone (510) 570-0964, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#523c33352220337f2731301230372039373e372b7c373627"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="523c33352220337f2731301230372039373e372b7c373627">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 UC
Davis and UC Berkeley. The National Park Service is not responsible for
the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records held by UC Davis and UC
Berkeley.
Description
The four cultural items listed in this notice were removed from a
site along the American River (CA-SAC-157) in Sacramento County, CA.
In 1981, as a part of an archeology course, Richard Burrill,
Cordova Senior High School, removed archeological items from CA-SAC-
157. Subsequently, these items were donated to the Folsom Historical
Society, and in 2016, they were transferred to the UC Davis Shields
Library. The items include two lots of unassociated funerary objects,
only one of which is present and accounted for in the UC Davis
collections. The unassociated funerary objects are one lot consisting
of abalone shells and one lot consisting of projectile points, flakes,
a scraper, a net weight, and a clamshell disc bead.
On February 16, 1942, Jeremiah B. Lillard, Harry Wanzer, and the
Sacramento County Board of Education gifted archeological items from
CA-SAC-157 to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at the University of
California, Berkeley. These items include one lot of unassociated
funerary objects consisting of sinkers, mortars, and pestles.
On June 3, 1938, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the
University of California, Berkeley, acquired archeological items from
CA-SAC-157 that were excavated by Robert Fleming Heizer and the
University of California Field Party. These items include one lot of
objects of cultural patrimony consisting of awls, ulnas, points,
pestles, mortars, shells, and flakes.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are 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
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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably trace the relationship:
anthropological, archeological, folkloric, geographical, historical,
kinship, linguistic, oral traditional, and other relevant information
or expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, UC Davis and UC Berkeley have determined that:
<bullet> The three lots of cultural items described above are
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human
remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or
ceremony and are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site of a Native American
individual.
<bullet> The one lot of cultural items described above has ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an
individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Wilton
Rancheria, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
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 July 10, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, UC Davis and UC Berkeley 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. UC Davis and UC Berkeley are responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: May 31, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12284 Filed 6-7-23; 8:45 am]
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