Notice2024-09413
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA
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Published
May 1, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Francisco State University (SF State) NAGPRA Program has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35198-35199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09413]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037840; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 (SF
State) NAGPRA Program has completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after May 31, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Elise Green, San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program,
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone (415) 405-
3545, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#27424055424249675441545209424352"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9cccedbccccc7e9dacfdadc87cccddc">[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 University NAGPRA Program, and additional
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results
of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, 100 individuals have been reasonably identified in a Notice of
Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on August 29,
2008, by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of
California, Berkeley (73 FR 50995-50996). The 160 associated funerary
objects listed in this notice are chert arrow points, obsidian arrow
points, obsidian cores, chert scraper, mollusk shells, clamshell beads,
pestles, mano, shaft straightener, Olivella beads, metal object,
buckle, glass, porcelain fragments, shell fragments, blades, wood,
basalt flake, bone awl, and a snag hook. CA-TEH-58 was located on the
Sacramento River about five miles north of Red Bluff.
CA-TEH-58 was recorded in 1950 by U.C. Berkeley and was described
as an historic Wintun village site. The site was destroyed because of
construction of the Red Bank Reservoir project. CA-TEH-58 was excavated
in 1953, 1955, and 1962 by A. E. Treganza of SF State. The 1953 project
was sponsored by the National Park Service; U.C. Berkeley sponsored the
1955 excavation. The burials (1-104) collected in 1953 and 1955 are
curated at U.C. Berkeley although, according to an undated document at
the Treganza Museum (Anon n.d. [a]), ``TEH-58 Burial 103'' was sent to
the Lowie (now Hearst) Museum at U. C. Berkeley indicating that burial
had been curated at SF State. A letter from the Treganza Museum to the
Lowie Museum on May 26, 1969, indicates the materials were transferred
``late in 1965 or early in 1966'' (Van Dyke 1969). The 1962 project was
conducted under National Park Service contract # 14-10-0434-893 between
SF State and the National Park Service. The objects from the 1962
project were curated at SF State. According to Treganza Burials 105-109
were curated at SF State. No human remains from CA-TEH-58 were found at
SF State during the current inventory.
It was once common practice by museums to use chemicals on cultural
items to prevent deterioration by mold, insects, and moisture. To date,
the SF State NAGPRA Program has no records documenting use of chemicals
at our facilities, and we currently do not use chemicals on any
cultural items. A former SF State professor, Dr. Michael Moratto,
stated that staff used glues, polyvinyl acetate, and a solution called
Glyptol to mend and stabilize cultural objects in the past. Prior non-
invasive and non-destructive hazardous chemical tests conducted at the
SF State NAGPRA Program repositories show arsenic, mercury, and/or lead
in some storage containers, surfaces, and certain cultural items.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The SF State University NAGPRA Program has determined that:
<bullet> The 160 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
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<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the Grindstone Indian
Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California and the Paskenta Band
of Nomlaki Indians of California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative
identified in this notice under 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after May 31, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the SF State NAGPRA Program must determine
the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for
joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The SF State NAGPRA Program
is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: April 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-09413 Filed 4-30-24; 8:45 am]
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