Notice2024-20867
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
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Published
September 13, 2024
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Bernardino County Museum 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 178 (Friday, September 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74989-74990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20867]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038697; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Bernardino County Museum,
Redlands, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Bernardino County Museum 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 October 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Tamara Serrao-Leiva, San Bernardino County Museum, 2024
Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA 92374, telephone (909) 798-8623, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#156166706767747a3879707c637455667776783b6677767a607b616c3b727a63"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8cf8ffe9fefeede3a1e0e9e5faedccffeeefe1a2ffeeefe3f9e2f8f5a2ebe3fa">[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 Bernardino County Museum, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing at least one individual have been
identified. The 12 associated funerary objects include a pendant,
projectile points, pipe stem fragments, pottery sherds, faunal
fragments, flakes, shell fragments, ground stone, stone tools,
projectile points, shell beads, and historic beads. San Bernadino
County Museum site numbers SBCM-815 (also SBCM-5868) are considered the
same site to the culturally affiliated tribes list below. This site was
recorded by B. McCown on March 1944 and was excavated by McCown in 1948
through the Archaeological Survey Association (ASA) (McCown Site #7,
Santa Margarita River) in Fallbrook, CA. In Collected Papers of
Benjamin Ernest McCown, Excavation of Fallbrook Site No. 7,
Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California Paper Number
Six, 1964, pgs 61-72, McCown confirms the presence of a human cremation
that he excavated from April 10, 1948, to July 16, 1948. McCown writes
that only a small amount of the bones was left in place due to the
flood waters, but that the ``remains suggest an adult of about middle
age'' (page 64). Based on this reference, there seems to have been much
more collected than is present at San Bernardino County Museum. The
collection was donated to the county museum in two instances, hence the
different catalog numbers. The first donation was in 1956 and the
second when the ASA disbanded and donated McCown's collection to the
county museum in the early 2000s.
Human remains representing at least one individual has been
identified. The six associated funerary objects reflected in the record
are ground stone, lithics, ceramics, faunal bone, worked shell (beads),
and ecofacts. San Bernadino County Museum site number SBCM-5907 is in
the Murrieta Creek region of Riverside County, about one mile south of
Old Town, Temecula. In 1953 a note included in the Accession file
connects this site to Vail Ranch by the ``Temeku fork of River.'' Vail
Ranch was an 87,000-acre cattle ranch purchased by Walter Vail in 1905.
His ranch headquarters was located along Temecula Creek in an area now
bordered by Temecula Parkway. The site was first documented 3/30/1952
and later excavated by Benjamin McCown who donated the collection to
the museum in 1956. No known hazardous substances were used to treat
this collection.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The San Bernardino County Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 18 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the La Jolla
Band of Luiseno Indians, California; Pala Band of Mission Indians;
Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation,
California; Pechanga Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga
Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation,
California); Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Rincon
Reservation, California; and the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians,
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October
15, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the San
Bernardino County Museum 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 San Bernardino County Museum 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: September 5, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-20867 Filed 9-12-24; 8:45 am]
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