Notice2025-04198
Notice of Inventory Completion: Museum of Us, San Diego, CA
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Published
March 17, 2025
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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 90, Number 50 (Monday, March 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12353-12354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04198]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039422; 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 April 16, 2025.
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#b6d5dbd9c5dad3cff6dbc3c5d3c3dbd9d0c3c598d9c4d1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b7d4dad8c4dbd2cef7dac2c4d2c2dad8d1c2c499d8c5d0">[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, two individuals have been reasonably identified. The 3,081
associated funerary objects are from seven sites.
The 359 associated funerary objects removed from Hollister Mound
(CV-5; CA-SAC-21) in Sacramento County, CA include one lot of
carbonized textile and basketry material, one lot of carbonized pine
nut seeds, one lot of carbonized vegetal material, one lot of screened
burial material, three red ochre lumps, five charmstone fragments, one
grooved stone, one stone fragment, one stone discoidal, three baked
clay objects, one incised bird bone tube, 338 Haliotis ornament pieces,
one pottery sherd, and one lot of mixed beads.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual, and 916
associated funerary objects removed from Johnson Mound (CV-8; CA-SAC-6)
in Sacramento County, CA include 280 baked clay objects, 113 projectile
points, 25 chipped stone implements, five slate ornaments, two
miniature stone dishes, two charmstones, two stone ear plugs, six
steatite pipes and fragments, one small mortar, one stone discoidal,
one grinding slab, three red ochre lumps, three miscellaneous stones,
one lot of carbonized basketry and cordage, 12 strings of Olivella
beads, 27 loose mixed shell beads, four strings of stone beads, six
loose glass trade beads, three loose stone beads, one small lot of
mixed loose beads, 334 Haliotis ornaments pieces, one perforated clam
shell blank, three bipointed bone implements, seven incised bird bone
fragments, 34 fish bone gorges, 12 faunal bone fragments, four
miscellaneous stones, 19 faunal bone awls and awl fragments, one antler
implement, one lot of cremation material, one lot of carbonized textile
material, and one lot of carbonized seeds.
The 69 associated funerary objects removed from Calhoun Mound (CV-
9; CA-SAC-113) in Sacramento County, CA include three strings of clam
shell beads, 29 Haliotis ornaments, three bone implements, three
incised bird bone tubes, 15 projectile points, two obsidian Stockton
Curves, three stone discoidals, two mineral specimens, eight baked clay
objects, and one lot of loose carbonized seeds.
The 28 associated funerary objects removed from Eichenberger Mound
(CV-19; CA-SAC-122) in Sacramento County, CA include 24 Haliotis
ornaments, three steatite pipes, and one hatband decorated with
Olivella shell beads.
The 102 associated funerary objects removed from Woodward/Drescher
Mound (CV-20; CA-SAC-109) in Sacramento County, CA include 81 Haliotis
ornaments, one perforated bone implement, one bone disc bead, five bird
bone beads, one lot miscellaneous burial material, three smooth
pebbles, two strings of clam shell disc beads, one mixed lot of faunal
bone and shell beads, two baked clay objects, two quartz crystals, one
bone awl, one bone tube, and one stone discoidal fragment.
The three associated funerary objects removed from Booth Mound (CV-
25; CA-SAC-126) in Sacramento County, CA include three strings of
Olivella beads.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual, and 1,604
associated funerary objects removed from CV-31, Central Valley, CA
include 211 projectile points, seven obsidian knives, one lot of
obsidian chips and flakes, 213 chipped stones, 225 Haliotis ornaments,
six lots of miscellaneous mixed material, 39 baked clay objects, one
clay pipe liner, 10 steatite pipe fragments, 182 strings of glass
beads, 25 faunal bone beads, four faunal bone whistles, nine strings of
Olivella beads, four strings of stone beads, 12 loose stone beads, nine
strings of clam shell beads, one Haliotis disc bead, one red ochre
piece, 500 loose Olivella beads, 66 obsidian bangles, three burial
accumulations, one cremation accumulation, three bone awls, two flat
bone implements, one small lot of work faunal bone, 46 containers of
glass beads, three mammalian vertebrae, two jars of historic beads,
five bird bone tubes, one lot of carbonized acorns, one grinding slab,
two lots of mixed material beads, one lot of mixed shell ornaments, one
lot of carbonized vegetal material, one lot of mixed stones, three lots
of carbonized cordage and textile material, one lot of carded Haliotis
ornaments, and one lot of carded shell money.
Between 1930 and 1936, the ancestral remains and 3,081 associated
funerary objects were removed by Henry Gibbs, a private collector and
looter. In 1937, Paul A. Walker purchased Gibbs' Central Valley,
California archeological collection. Walker was an amateur archeologist
and collector who worked by himself and with other amateur
archeologists, and in collaboration with the University of California
and Sacramento Junior College. Over the course of his life, Walker
amassed an extensive archeological collection from California's Central
Valley and smaller collections from Northern and Southern California,
and outside of California. In 1968, Walker's private archeological
collection was acquired by the San Diego Museum of Man (now Museum of
Us) through a purchase/donation transaction with Walker's widow, Bessie
B. Walker.
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:
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<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 3,081 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 Ione Band
of Miwok Indians of California and the Wilton Rancheria, 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 April 16, 2025. 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: January 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04198 Filed 3-14-25; 8:45 am]
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