Notice2024-15894
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
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Published
July 19, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 139 (Friday, July 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58753-58754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15894]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038296; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis,
Davis, 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, Davis (UC
Davis) 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
telephone (530) 752-8501, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6dbd8d9d4dad3f6c3d5d2d7c0dfc598d3d2c3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="deb3b0b1bcb2bb9eabbdbabfa8b7adf0bbbaab">[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 UC
Davis 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, four individuals have been reasonably identified. There are a
total of 4,015 lots of associated funerary objects (102 of which are
currently missing). The 3,913 lots of present associated funerary
objects are one clay pipe, two bone ornaments, two shaft straighteners,
three bone needles, four charmstones, five bone flakers, five fire-
cracked rock, five net sinkers, eight point blanks, eight stone beads/
ornaments, 10 worked stone, 21 haliotis beads and shell, 36 ochre, 44
worked bone, 56 awls, 59 fired clay, 62 soil samples, 76 historic
glass/possible quartz, 95 clamshell disc beads and shell, 101
groundstone, 124 unworked stone/minerals, 138 projectile points, 147
charcoal, 172 unmodified shell, 179 miscellaneous shell beads and
ornaments, 197 unmodified bone, 240 plant/miscellaneous organic
material, 281 debitage, 357 chipped stone, 1,475 Olivella beads and
shell. The 102 lots of currently missing associated funerary objects
are three charcoal, three chipped stone, three clamshell disc beads,
five soil samples, five projectile points, nine groundstone, 15 plant/
miscellaneous organic material, 17 unworked stone, 41
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Olivella beads and shell, and one lot of unidentified missing material.
UC Davis conducted a field school, directed by Charles Slaymaker, at
CA-NAP-539 (Accession 265) in 1980.
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
UC Davis has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 4,015 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.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Cachil
DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the
Colusa Rancheria, California; Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina
Rancheria (previously listed as Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians);
and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
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 human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 19, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, UC Davis 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. UC Davis 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: July 10, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-15894 Filed 7-18-24; 8:45 am]
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