Notice2024-24414
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
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Published
October 22, 2024
Issuing agencies
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 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84393-84394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24414]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038917; 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
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 November 21, 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#196d6a7c6b6b787634757c706f78596a7b7a74376a7b7a766c776d60377e766f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a2e293f28283b3577363f332c3b1a2938393774293839352f342e23743d352c">[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 has been
identified. The seven associated funerary objects are burned beads,
glass beads, shell, pipe fragments, petrified wood, pottery, and stone
tools. The Deep Canyon collection housed at the museum was collected by
a private corporation in the summer of 1972 in and around Deep Canyon
in Palm Desert, CA. While the original field records do not mention
human remains, the museum's records show that one skull fragment is
associated with SBCM-5600 (Deep Canyon). Records show Gorden Redtfeldt
and M.R. Harrington at the Southwest Museum were corresponding
regarding a site report in 1955.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been
identified. The two associated funerary objects are fish and faunal
bone. The Lake LeConte collection (SBCM-5922) housed at the museum was
originally part of the McCown collection, who was affiliated with
Archaeological Survey Association. When ASA disbanded, this collection
was donated to the county museum in the early 2000s.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been
identified. The four associated funerary objects are pottery, historic-
era objects, bone awls, and organic material. In the 1970s an ancestor
and objects were sent to Riverside Sheriff's department for a small
exhibit installed in the department. In early 2024, sheriff/coroner
rediscovered these items in a box labelled ``SBCM'' which included the
human remains and objects. In May 2024, coroner communicated this and
dropped off the box to the museum. The ceramic potsherd found with
ancestor is Cahuilla.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical local
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 three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 13 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 Agua
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian
Reservation, California; Augustine Band of Cahuilla
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Indians, California; Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians (previously
listed as Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, California); Cahuilla Band
of Indians; Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians,
California; Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California; Ramona Band of
Cahuilla, California; Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians, California;
and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla 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 November
21, 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: October 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-24414 Filed 10-21-24; 8:45 am]
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