Notice of Inventory Completion: San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA, 65147-65148 [E9-29295]
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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 235 / Wednesday, December 9, 2009 / Notices
Museum of the American Indian, Autry
National Center of the American West,
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los
Angeles, CA 90027, telephone (323)
667–2000, ext. 220, or Steven M. Karr,
Ph.D., Ahmanson Curator of History and
Culture and Interim Executive Director
for the Southwest Museum of the
American Indian, Autry National Center
of the American West, 234 Museum
Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065,
telephone (323) 221–2164 ext., ext. 234,
before January 8, 2010. Repatriation of
the human remains to the PaiuteShoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada,
representing the Moapa Band of Paiutes
of the Moapa River Indian Reservation,
Nevada, and the Great Basin Inter-Tribal
NAGPRA Coalition, a non-Federally
recognized Indian coalition, may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Southwest Museum of the
American Indian at the Autry National
Center is responsible for notifying the
Moapa Band of Paiutes of the Moapa
River Indian Reservation, Nevada;
Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada; and
the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA
Coalition, a non-Federally recognized
Indian coalition, that this notice has
been published.
Dated: October 15, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9–29297 Filed 12–8–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion: San
Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
in the possession and control of the San
Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA.
The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from
Kern, Sacramento, and Tulare Counties,
CA.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
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agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the San Diego
Museum of Man professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
In 1958, human remains representing
a minimum of four individuals were
removed from a burial site on a delta
area called the ‘‘Meadows’’ near the
mouth of the Snodgrass Slough on an
island in the Sacramento River in the
vicinity of Walnut Grove, Sacramento
County, CA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
collected by Mr. and Mrs. Ken and
Shirley Westbrook, and donated to the
San Diego Museum of Man on July 10,
1961. No known individuals were
identified. The 13 associated funerary
objects are 1 pestle, 1 bone awl, 3 stone
projectile point fragments, and 8 fired
clay fragments.
The remains of two of the individuals
consist of partial skulls with associated
mandibles. Originally, the other two
individuals were determined to be two
bone awls, but were subsequently
identified as human remains. As noted
by the donors, the site had been
disturbed and the remains of a great
number of individuals seemed to be
represented. According to the Museum
of Man records, the human remains and
associated funerary objects are believed
to date to prehistoric or pre-contact
time. The Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, Tachi
Yokut Tribe, has provided the museum
with information consisting of oral
stories, territory and language family
maps, and written ethnographical
information about the Yokuts and their
inter-relationships with surrounding
communities, which also covers the
territory where the human remains and
associated funerary objects were
discovered, and provides a
determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human
remains and associated funerary objects.
On an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of seven
individuals were removed from a burial
mound ‘‘at the Indian village site’’ near
the east shore of Tulare Lake at the
junction of the Elk Bayou and Tule
Rivers, a quarter mile east of the Kings
County border, five miles from the town
of Corcoran, in Tulare County, CA. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were collected by Mr. David
Folsom, and donated to the museum on
November 13, 1954. No known
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individuals were identified. The 59
associated funerary objects are 2 strands
of glass trade beads, 1 strand of shell
disk beads, 1 strand of steatite disk
beads, 2 strands of olivella shell beads,
4 tubular shell beads, 1 shell tube, 1
steatite ceremonial stone, 1 abalone
shell dish, 1 pismo clam shell bead, 2
abalone shell disk beads, 3 abalone shell
ornaments, 3 abalone shell pendants, 1
bird claw, 1 clay bead, 1 bird bone ear
ornament, 1 plummet stone, 3 stone
projectile points, 1 obsidian drill, 2
stone blades, 2 slate blades, 23
fragments of a steatite bowl (or bowls),
and 2 miscellaneous steatite objects.
There are eight tubular shell beads
currently missing in the collection.
Museum records indicate that the
burial mound consisted of complete
skeletons, but only the skulls and
funerary objects associated with the
burials were collected by the donor.
According to the donor, ‘‘the burial
mound is called the ‘‘plague pit’’ by the
local inhabitants due to a story that in
historic times, there was a plague among
the Native American people of the area
which killed large numbers of them in
a short period of time. Their bodies
were hurriedly thrown into a large
common grave which is supposed to be
the mound.’’ The donor also states that
‘‘the beads were found in the area below
the skulls, indicating that they were
necklaces, and other artifacts were
placed on the bodies or near them.’’
Records indicate that the glass trade
beads found associated with the burials
indicates that they are historic burials
and that the location of the site
indicates that these are Yokut Indian
burials. The Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, Tachi Yokut Tribe, has
provided the museum with information
consisting of oral stories, territory and
language family maps, and written
ethnographical information about the
Yokuts and their inter-relationships
with surrounding communities, which
also covers the territory where the
human remains and associated funerary
objects were discovered, and supports a
determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human
remains and associated funerary objects.
In 1956, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from a burial located two miles
north of the town of Pond on Central
Valley Highway, in Kern County, CA. In
1972, the human remains were gifted as
part of a collection to the San Diego
Museum of Man by Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of
the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
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The burial was recorded as being in
a sitting position and was exposed by
land leveling, about two feet below the
surface. The pelvis bone was permeated
with gypsum or salt. Museum records
indicate that the cultural affiliation of
the human remains is southern/central
Yokuts, and indicates the age as
prehistoric. The Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, Tachi Yokut Tribe, has
provided the museum with information
consisting of oral stories, territory and
language family maps, and written
ethnographical information about the
Yokuts and their inter-relationships
with surrounding communities, which
also covers the territory where the
human remains were discovered, and
provides a determination of more likely
than not of cultural affiliation to the
human remains.
Officials of the San Diego Museum of
Man have determined that, pursuant to
25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human
remains described above represent the
physical remains of 12 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of
the San Diego Museum of Man also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the 72 objects described
above are reasonably believed to have
been placed with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or
later as part of the death rite or
ceremony. Lastly, officials of the San
Diego Museum of Man have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2),
there is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human
remains and associated funerary objects
and the Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Philip Hoog, Archaeology and
NAGPRA Coordinator, San Diego
Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa
Park, San Diego, CA 92101, telephone
(619) 239–2001, before January 8, 2010.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Santa
Rosa Indian Community of the Santa
Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The San Diego Museum of Man is
responsible for notifying the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California that this notice
has been published.
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Dated: October 15, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9–29295 Filed 12–8–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Metropolitan Park District of the
Toledo Area, Toledo, OH
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and an associated funerary
object in the control of the Metropolitan
Park District of the Toledo Area, Toledo,
OH. The human remains and associated
funerary object were removed from the
Audubon Islands State Nature Preserve,
Lucas County, OH.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the Native
American human remains. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the Metropolitan
Park District of the Toledo Area
professional staff in consultation with
the Lucas County Coroner’s Office,
Center for Historic and Military
Archaeology at Heidelberg College, and
in consultation with representatives of
the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians
of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse
Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Hannahville Indian
Community, Michigan; Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan;
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee
Tribe, Oklahoma; Wyandotte Nation,
Oklahoma; and the American Indian
Intertribal Association, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group.
In 2007, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from Audubon Islands State
Nature Preserve, Lucas County, OH, by
Dan Graham. The Lucas County
Coroner’s Office brought the human
remains to the park. No known
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individual was identified. The one
associated funerary item is an immature
raccoon skull jaw.
The Lucas County Coroner’s Office
identified the human remains as
possibly Native American based on
context, antiquity and an anteriorposterior flattening in the
subtrochanteric region of the femur that
is typical of historic/ancient Native
Americans.
A nearby 18th century Ottawa grave
demonstrates that this part of the island
may have been occupied and used as a
burial area by the Ottawa until around
the time of the 1795 Treaty of
Greenville. Audubon Island is located in
the lower Maumee Valley in northern
Ohio. Some Ottawa bands had taken up
residence in the lower Maumee Valley
by A.D. 1740–1750. Following Pontiac’s
siege of Detroit in the summer of 1763,
some of the Ottawa bands from that area
also resettled to the lower Maumee
Valley. In 1764, Captain Thomas Morris
met an Ottawa delegation at the foot of
the Maumee Rapids, adjacent to
Audubon Island. Between 1783 and
1794, Audubon Island was known as
Col. McKee’s Island, and was farmed as
part of Alexander McKee’s Department
of Indian Affairs post at the foot of the
Maumee Rapids. Several other EuroCanadian traders occupied lands in the
area, presumably with the consent of the
local Ottawa.
In 1795, many of the Great Lakes-Ohio
Valley tribes signed the Treaty of
Greenville, which produced several
land cessions, including a 12–squaremile reserve surrounding the foot of the
Maumee Rapids and Audubon Island.
Occupation of Audubon Island by the
Ohio Ottawa appears to have ceased at
that time, at which point some of them
moved to Walpole Island, Canada.
Between 1807 and 1817, the United
States established four small
reservations for the Ottawa along the
lower Maumee River. Audubon Island
lies between two of these reservations.
In 1831 to1833, the four reservations
were finally ceded to the United States
in return for lands in present-day
Franklin County, KS. In 1867, the
Kansas reservation organization was
dissolved and the Ottawa sold their
individual allotments and moved to
Oklahoma. Descendants of the Ottawa
that occupied Audubon Island are
members of the Little River Band of
Ottawa Indians, Michigan and Ottawa
Tribe of Oklahoma.
Officials of the Metropolitan Park
District of the Toledo Area have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Diego Museum of Man, San
Diego, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the possession and control of the San Diego Museum of Man,
San Diego, CA. The human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed from Kern, Sacramento, and Tulare Counties, CA.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3).
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the San
Diego Museum of Man professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California.
In 1958, human remains representing a minimum of four individuals
were removed from a burial site on a delta area called the ``Meadows''
near the mouth of the Snodgrass Slough on an island in the Sacramento
River in the vicinity of Walnut Grove, Sacramento County, CA. The human
remains and associated funerary objects were collected by Mr. and Mrs.
Ken and Shirley Westbrook, and donated to the San Diego Museum of Man
on July 10, 1961. No known individuals were identified. The 13
associated funerary objects are 1 pestle, 1 bone awl, 3 stone
projectile point fragments, and 8 fired clay fragments.
The remains of two of the individuals consist of partial skulls
with associated mandibles. Originally, the other two individuals were
determined to be two bone awls, but were subsequently identified as
human remains. As noted by the donors, the site had been disturbed and
the remains of a great number of individuals seemed to be represented.
According to the Museum of Man records, the human remains and
associated funerary objects are believed to date to prehistoric or pre-
contact time. The Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, Tachi Yokut Tribe, has provided the museum with information
consisting of oral stories, territory and language family maps, and
written ethnographical information about the Yokuts and their inter-
relationships with surrounding communities, which also covers the
territory where the human remains and associated funerary objects were
discovered, and provides a determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human remains and associated funerary
objects.
On an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of seven
individuals were removed from a burial mound ``at the Indian village
site'' near the east shore of Tulare Lake at the junction of the Elk
Bayou and Tule Rivers, a quarter mile east of the Kings County border,
five miles from the town of Corcoran, in Tulare County, CA. The human
remains and associated funerary objects were collected by Mr. David
Folsom, and donated to the museum on November 13, 1954. No known
individuals were identified. The 59 associated funerary objects are 2
strands of glass trade beads, 1 strand of shell disk beads, 1 strand of
steatite disk beads, 2 strands of olivella shell beads, 4 tubular shell
beads, 1 shell tube, 1 steatite ceremonial stone, 1 abalone shell dish,
1 pismo clam shell bead, 2 abalone shell disk beads, 3 abalone shell
ornaments, 3 abalone shell pendants, 1 bird claw, 1 clay bead, 1 bird
bone ear ornament, 1 plummet stone, 3 stone projectile points, 1
obsidian drill, 2 stone blades, 2 slate blades, 23 fragments of a
steatite bowl (or bowls), and 2 miscellaneous steatite objects. There
are eight tubular shell beads currently missing in the collection.
Museum records indicate that the burial mound consisted of complete
skeletons, but only the skulls and funerary objects associated with the
burials were collected by the donor. According to the donor, ``the
burial mound is called the ``plague pit'' by the local inhabitants due
to a story that in historic times, there was a plague among the Native
American people of the area which killed large numbers of them in a
short period of time. Their bodies were hurriedly thrown into a large
common grave which is supposed to be the mound.'' The donor also states
that ``the beads were found in the area below the skulls, indicating
that they were necklaces, and other artifacts were placed on the bodies
or near them.'' Records indicate that the glass trade beads found
associated with the burials indicates that they are historic burials
and that the location of the site indicates that these are Yokut Indian
burials. The Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
Tachi Yokut Tribe, has provided the museum with information consisting
of oral stories, territory and language family maps, and written
ethnographical information about the Yokuts and their inter-
relationships with surrounding communities, which also covers the
territory where the human remains and associated funerary objects were
discovered, and supports a determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human remains and associated funerary
objects.
In 1956, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from a burial located two miles north of the town of Pond
on Central Valley Highway, in Kern County, CA. In 1972, the human
remains were gifted as part of a collection to the San Diego Museum of
Man by Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. No
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
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The burial was recorded as being in a sitting position and was
exposed by land leveling, about two feet below the surface. The pelvis
bone was permeated with gypsum or salt. Museum records indicate that
the cultural affiliation of the human remains is southern/central
Yokuts, and indicates the age as prehistoric. The Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, Tachi Yokut Tribe, has provided
the museum with information consisting of oral stories, territory and
language family maps, and written ethnographical information about the
Yokuts and their inter-relationships with surrounding communities,
which also covers the territory where the human remains were
discovered, and provides a determination of more likely than not of
cultural affiliation to the human remains.
Officials of the San Diego Museum of Man have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 12 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the San Diego Museum of Man also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 72 objects described above
are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the San Diego Museum of Man have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Philip Hoog, Archaeology and NAGPRA Coordinator,
San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
92101, telephone (619) 239-2001, before January 8, 2010. Repatriation
of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The San Diego Museum of Man is responsible for notifying the Santa
Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California that this
notice has been published.
Dated: October 15, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-29295 Filed 12-8-09; 8:45 am]
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