Notice2025-06653
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Published
April 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Berkeley has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 74 (Friday, April 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16534-16535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06653]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039965; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Berkeley has
completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after May 19, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Alexandra Lucas, Government and Community Relations, Office
of the Chancellor. University of California, Berkeley. 200 California
Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 570-0964, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7e101f190e0c1f530b1d1c3e1c1b0c151b121b07501b1a0b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="92fcf3f5e2e0f3bfe7f1f0d2f0f7e0f9f7fef7ebbcf7f6e7">[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
University of California, Berkeley, 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
Prior to 1906, 979 lots of associated funerary objects were removed
from San Nicolas Island, California by several individuals and donated
to the Lowie Museum of Anthropology (now known by Phoebe A Hearst
Museum) at the University of California, Berkeley. The 979 lots of
associated funerary objects are atlatls, awls, basketry, bone figurine,
bone knives, bone needles, bone ornaments, bone pendants, bone
scrapers, bone swords, bone tools (one missing), bone tubes,
cartridges, charcoal samples, chipped-stone crescents, clubs, comals,
cordage, drills, faunal remains (18 missing), fish hooks, flakes,
flutes, ground stone, hammerstones, harpoons, knives, mineral and rock
samples (one missing), mortars (two missing), painting supplies,
pebbles, pestles, plummets, projectile points (one missing), scrapers,
shell beads, shell dishes, shell ornaments (one missing), shell
pendants, sinkers, soil samples, spearheads, stone beads, stone bowls,
stone dishes, stone ornaments, stone pendants, stone pipes (one
missing), stone tools, stone tubes, stone vessels, weights, whistles,
wood fragments, wood tools, worked bone, worked shell, and worked stone
(one missing).
Collections and collection spaces at the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of
Anthropology were treated with substances for preservation and pest
control, some potentially hazardous. No records have been found to date
at the Museum to indicate whether or not chemicals or natural
substances were used prior to 1960.
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 associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The University of California, Berkeley has determined that:
<bullet> The 979 lots of associated funerary 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 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 Rincon Reservation, California; Santa
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation,
California; and the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 associated funerary objects described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 19, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the University of California,
Berkeley must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The University of California, Berkeley 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: April 8, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-06653 Filed 4-17-25; 8:45 am]
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