Notice2023-18134
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco State University Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Program, San Francisco, CA
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Published
August 23, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and 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 Humboldt County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 162 (Wednesday, August 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 57467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18134]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036435; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco
State University Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Program, San Francisco, 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 San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects and 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 Humboldt County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after September 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco State NAGPRA Program, 1600
Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone (415) 405-3545,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#443e2825303004372237316a212031"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="671d0b061313271401141249020312">[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 the
San Francisco State NAGPRA Program. 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
the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program.
Description
Eight objects of cultural patrimony were donated to the Tregenza
Museum at San Francisco State University in the 1960s and 1970s. When
the Treganza Anthropology Museum closed in 2012, all the Native
American items were transferred to the San Francisco State University
NAGPRA Program. The objects of cultural patrimony are eight Wiyot
baskets from the Northwest California Coast. They consist of two round
bowl baskets and one twined eating bowl donated by Elsa Korbel in 1968;
one twined gift basket, one twin with knob lid, one twined open gift
basket, and one twined cooking bowl donated by M. Molarsky; and one
twined gift basket donated by the San Mateo Historical Society.
In 1966, 45 unassociated funerary objects were removed by Robert
Ostrovsky and Robert Schenk from sites CA-HUM-207, CA-HUM-208, CA-HUM-
211, CA-HUM-213, CA-HUM-214, CA-HUM-215, CA-HUM-216, and CA-HUM-Butler
Valley as part of archeological site documentation in an area along
Butler Valley Reservoir, in Humboldt County, CA. These cultural items
were stored in the San Francisco State College Anthropology Collection
and subsequently became part of the archeological collection of the
Treganza Anthropology Museum at San Francisco State University (TAM).
Upon closure of TAM in 2012, the objects were transferred to the San
Francisco State University NAGPRA program. The 45 unassociated funerary
objects are one spatulate hammer stone, one possible metate fragment,
two shell fragments, and three worked chert pieces from CA-HUM-207; one
stone mano from CA-HUM-208; one hopper mortar pestle from CA-HUM-211;
one small hammer stone, one hopper mortar, and one small milling stone
from CA-HUM-213; one small round stone, nine chert pieces, one possible
bowl mortar fragment, one small hammer stone, one small mano, and one
mano-hammer stone from CA-HUM-214; three soapstone pieces, one grey
chert scraper, and 11 chert scrapers from CA-HUM-215; one worked red
chert and one red chert scrapper from CA-HUM-216; and two groundstones
from CA-Hum-Butler Valley.
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 Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: anthropological,
geographical, historical, 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, the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program has determined
that:
<bullet> The 45 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 eight cultural items described above have 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 Bear River Band
of the Rohnerville 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 September 22, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of cultural items are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The San Francisco State
NAGPRA Program is 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: August 16, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18134 Filed 8-22-23; 8:45 am]
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