Notice2024-04091
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
February 28, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from an unknown county in CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14710-14711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04091]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037477; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Riverside, Riverside, 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, Riverside has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from an unknown county in CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9ef3fbf9fff0b0f3ebeceef6e7deebfdecb0fbfaeb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cba6aeacaaa5e5a6beb9bba3b28bbea8b9e5aeafbe">[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
University of California, Riverside. 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 inventory or related records held
by the University of California, Riverside.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from an unknown County in CA. The V. Basinger Collection is believed to
have been donated to the University of California, Riverside in the
1960s. The collection is approximately 28 banker's boxes in size and
contains about 600 items. The cremated remains of at least one Native
American ancestor are housed in six clay vessels in the collection. In
his 2002 NAGPRA inventory, Dr. Phil Wilke of the UCR Anthropology
Department, noted that the collection had been in the department since
at least 1969. Through archival research, NAGPRA Staff uncovered
information related to a professor of entomology, Dr. Almon Jay
Basinger, who taught at UCR from 1923-196. Dr. Basinger was married to
Vera Basinger (Lewis) who passed away in 1950. According to historical
census data, Vera Basinger lived in Pima County, AZ, in her early life
on her family's farm. NAGPRA Program Staff believe that the V. Basinger
Collection was composed mostly of Vera's personal collection and was
donated by Dr. Almon Basinger to UCR after her death. Collection
records list Arizona (Gila Bend, Rillito, Chiricahua Mountains) and
Riverside, California for small a portion of the collection, while the
rest is broadly un-provenienced. In a student paper likely from the
1970s, a student conducted an osteological analysis of the cremated
remains yielding information about the possible method of cremation and
noting that the individual was a young, Native American man from the
``Southern California desert''. The only documentation associated with
the collection was a singular black and white photograph of four people
washing pottery at what appears to be an archeological site. Writing on
the reverse of the photograph appears to read ``Washing pottery at
Puy[eacute], 1916 New Mexico''. The items in the collection seem to be
from different locales in the American Southwest and Southern
California and are not all from the burial site where the cremation was
reportedly removed from. The burial site was likely in either
Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, or San Bernardino Counties. Through
consultation and review of the funerary objects with various southern
California/Arizona Tribes it was determined that the individual was
most likely either Cahuilla or Yaqui. The six associated funerary
objects are six clay vessels (ollas).
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects 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: geographical information, historical information, and
expert tribal opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of California, Riverside has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The six objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have
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been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of death
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla
Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California; Augustine
Band of Cahuilla Indians, California; Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians
(previously listed as Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, California);
Cahuilla Band of Indians; Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi
Reservation, California; Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno
Indians, California; Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California;
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona; Ramona Band of Cahuilla, California;
Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians, California; Torres Martinez Desert
Cahuilla Indians, California; and the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission
Indians of California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. 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 human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after March 29, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
California, Riverside must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request
and not competing requests. The University of California, Riverside is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04091 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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