Notice2023-27367
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA
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Published
December 13, 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, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes, intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Lake County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86368-86369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27367]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037053; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco
State University NAGPRA 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, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes, intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
cultural items were removed from Lake County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after January 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Elise Green, San Francisco State NAGPRA Program, 1600
Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone (415) 405-3545,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4520223720202b3105362336306b202130"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2e4b495c4b4b405a6e5d485d5b004b4a5b">[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 the consultation, can be found in the summary or related records
held by the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program.
Description
In 1972, cultural items were removed from site CA-LAK-305, on the
main arm of Sam Alley Ridge in Lake County, CA. The items were stored
in the San Francisco State College Anthropology Collection and
subsequently became part of the Tregenza Anthropology Museum's (TAM)
archeological
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collection. Upon closure of the TAM in 2012, the items were transferred
to the San Francisco State University NAGPRA program. The 180
unassociated funerary objects are 22 shells, three pieces of wire, one
medial section square nail, one partial obsidian point, 39 square
nails, 11 obsidian projectile point tip fragments, six chert projectile
point fragments, 10 chert scrapers, seven obsidian scrapers, four
obsidian projectile point fragments, one small square nail, one round
nail, seven square nail fragments, one partial basal projectile point,
one notched obsidian point, one corner notch point, two corner notch
projectile point fragments, two square nail fragments, two corner notch
obsidian point projectiles, one side notch projectile point, one
projectile point fragment, two obsidian flakes, one medial section
square nail, one chert projectile point base fragment, one projectile
point fragment, one fragment of cooper, one iron chunk, two worked
chert flakes, 14 worked pieces of chert, one chert corner notch point,
one drill scraper point, two modified chert flakes, two pieces of
glass, one square spike, one chert tip fragment, one obsidian burin,
one medial obsidian projectile point fragment, one Winchester No.12
shotgun shell, one modified obsidian flake, one obsidian flake tool,
one basal fragment small projectile point, one large nail, one large
nail fragment, one chert knife fragment, one utilized chert flake, one
reworked obsidian flake, two utilized obsidian flakes, one worked piece
of obsidian, one thin triangular blade tip flake, one chert core medial
fragment, one square nail medial, one modified piece of chert, four
worked pieces of obsidian, two pieces of milky quartz, and one heavy
metal ring.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable 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, archeological,
geographical, historical, linguistic, 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 180 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Habematolel
Pomo of Upper Lake, 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 January 12, 2024. 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 the 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
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: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-27367 Filed 12-12-23; 8:45 am]
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