Notice2024-25186
Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of Us, San Diego, CA
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Published
October 30, 2024
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Museum of Us 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 210 (Wednesday, October 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86366-86367]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-25186]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038954; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of Us, San Diego, 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 Museum of Us 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 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Carmen Mosley, NAGPRA Repatriation Manager, Museum of Us,
1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101, telephone (619) 239-
2001 Ext. 42, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1b78767468777e625b766e687e6e76747d6e683574697c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0f6c62607c636a764f627a7c6a7a6260697a7c21607d68">[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
Museum of Us, 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 from three
archaeological sites. The 1,679 associated funerary objects are from
five archaeology sites.
Human remains representing, at least, two individuals and 267
associated funerary objects removed from Rose Canyon (W-3; CA-SDI-4595)
in La Jolla, San Diego County, CA, include 33 unmodified faunal bone,
four bifaces, 15 core tools, 11 unworked flakes, eight utilized flakes,
six manos, one stone pendant, one pestle, 11 ecofacts, five
hammerstones, and 172 unmodified shells. The 53 associated funerary
objects removed from C-5 (shore line of ancient Blake Sea) in Imperial
County, CA include 16 decorated body sherds, 13 decorated rim sherds,
one undecorated body sherd, 15 undecorated rim sherds, one biface, one
chopper, four manos, one battered stone, and one ecofact. The 632
associated funerary objects removed from C-123 (CA-IMP-135) in East San
Felipe Valley, Imperial County, CA include one unmodified faunal bone,
two ceramic pipe fragments, 22 decorated body sherds, 22 decorated rim
sherds, 103 undecorated body sherds, 372 undecorated rim sherds, seven
bifaces, six choppers, one core tool, 17 projectile points, 16
scrapers, nine unworked flakes, 13 utilized flakes, four manos, one
stone sucking tube, one shaft straightener, one historic metal
material, five ecofacts, three modified shells, 23 unmodified shells,
and three battered stones. Human remains representing, at least, one
individual and 167 associated funerary objects removed from C-158/A in
Granite Hill, East Central San Diego County, CA include one ball stone,
one unmodified shell, 16 Olivella beads, one modified shell, one shell
pendant, one bull roarer, three mescal chisels, one mano, eight
unworked flakes, nine projectile points, three chipped stones, 30
undecorated mixed sherds, 26 undecorated body sherds, three decorated
rim sherds, one decorated body sherd, one ceramic disk, and 61 mixed
sherds. Human remains representing, at least, one individual and 560
associated funerary objects removed from C-165 in Hawi-Vallecito, San
Diego County, CA include one unmodified faunal bone, three ceramic pipe
handles, one ceramic tinaja, two ceramic water ollas, five decorated
body sherds, 31 decorated mixed sherds, three decorated rim sherds, 436
undecorated mixed sherds, one chipped stone axe preform, two chipped
stone scrapers, one quartz scraper, 23 projectile points, two unworked
flakes, three utilized flakes, one groundstone weight, three pestles,
one shaft straightener, one Olivella bead, three ecofacts, 33 modified
shells, three unmodified shells, and one modified groundstone.
Between the 1920s and 1950s, geologist and amateur archaeologist
and collector, Malcolm J. Rogers, conducted surveys and excavations on
behalf of the Museum of Man (now Museum of Us) at several sites,
including the aforementioned, in east central San Diego County and
Imperial County.
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 Museum of Us has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 1,679 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 Campo
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation,
California; Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California (Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of
the Barona Reservation, California; Viejas (Baron Long) Group of
Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas Reservation,
California); Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California; Iipay
Nation of Santa Ysabel, California; Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission
Indians of the Inaja
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and Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village of California;
La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian
Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno
Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; San Pasqual
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; and the Sycuan Band of
the Kumeyaay Nation.
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 November 29, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Museum of Us
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 Museum of Us 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 25, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-25186 Filed 10-29-24; 8:45 am]
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