Notice2024-04093
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 intends to repatriate 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 San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14716-14717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04093]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037479; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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
intends to repatriate 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 San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara,
CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, the University of California, Riverside, 900
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951)-827-6349,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#076a62606669296a7275776f7e4772647529626372"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="65080002040b4b081017150d1c251006174b000110">[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 summary or related records held by
the University of California, Riverside.
Description
The six cultural items were removed from San Luis Obispo County,
CA. In 1981, R.O. Gibson removed marine shells (Tivela sp, Mytilus sp,
Tegla sp, and chiton) from archeological site CA-SLO-99, a site located
on the sea coast approximately 0.6 miles east of the south end of Shell
Beach. The site consisted of a shell midden with at least one bedrock
mortar.
In 1981, R.O. Gibson removed shell fragments from a midden feature
at archeological site CA-SLO-459, the Harrigan Site, which is a well-
known site for the Chumash. The site was on private property near Shell
Beach owned by a Mr. Harrigan in 1969, hence the name ``Harrigan
Site''. There are multiple reports of burials at the site being
previously disturbed by sewer workers. In 1984, Madonna Construction
under contract of Pismo City disturbed a Chumash burial and sent two
skeletal elements to Dr. Phil Walker at UCSB. Dr. Walker wrote back
noting that the coroner should have come to the site and reported to
the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC); the coroner reportedly
refused to come. Dr. Walker urged the construction company to ask the
NAHC to have the Attorney General corroborate. Walker went on to note
that CA-SLO-459 is a well-known cemetery and that intentional
disturbance is illegal. He cc'ed the Santa Ynez Elders Council and
United Chumash Council on his response.
In 1978, R.O. Gibson removed abalone shell samples from
archeological site CA-SLO-460, Fiscalini Ranch in Cambria Pine. The
site was located on private property and was originally record in 1961
as a temporary camp for the gathering of seafood by Geneva Hamilton.
Additional archeological surveys were conducted in the 1970s through
the 1990s, which noted rock oven features, bedrock mortars, chipped
stone objects, and ground stone objects.
In 1978, R.O. Gibson removed shell samples from archeological site
CA-SLO-697, also known as Bob Gibson's Giant Footprint Site, in
Cambria. The site reportedly consisted of a midden and oven feature
with a low density of cultural deposits including net weights, pitted
anvils, chert flakes, and shell fragment. Gibson hypothesized that the
site actually consisted of several small sites that had blended
together over time through the process of grading.
In 1981, Lawrence Spanne removed marine shells samples (Tivela
stultorum) from archeological site CA-SLO-754 (trinomial later voided
and changed to CA-SLO-433) in Oceano, California. The site, which was
located on private property, was first recorded as a small campsite in
1954, though the property owner had noted that he had previously
unintentionally disturbed a burial when plowing. In 1977 burials were
disturbed during a property development project and the work was halted
by local Chumash community members.
In 1981, five iron cannons washed up on Christi Beach and were
thought to have been associated with Sir Francis Drake (1579).
Snethcamp and Associates submitted pieces of rope found in the vicinity
of the cannons to UCR for radiocarbon dating. The rope samples yielded
a date of 120 <plus-minus> 50 years B.P.
The six lots of objects of cultural patrimony are five lots of
shells and one lot of rope fragments.
The four cultural items were removed from Santa Barbara County, CA.
At an unknown date, shell samples were removed by an unknown individual
from Santa Rosa Island and submitted to the University of California,
Riverside Radiocarbon laboratory for testing. The samples were in jars
labeled, ``Abalone shells from Indian Culture--Santa Rosa Island, 3,000
years old'' and ``Shell Samples, Wavy Top, from Indian Culture--Santa
Rosa Island, 3,000 years old''.
The skeletal remains from a fox were removed from Santa Rosa Island
and were submitted by Shelley Steven to the University of California,
Riverside, Radiocarbon Laboratory at an unknown date.
Burned faunal bone was removed by unknown individual from Santa
Rosa Island at an unknown date and submitted to the University of
California, Riverside, Radiocarbon Laboratory.
The four lots of objects of cultural patrimony are two lots of
shells and two lots of faunal remains.
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: archeological information,
geographical information, historical information, oral tradition, 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 10 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 Santa Ynez Band
of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.
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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 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 cultural items 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. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04093 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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