Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA, 68479-68480 [2014-27146]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 221 (Monday, November 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68479-68480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-27146]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-17070; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco 
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, in 
consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this 
notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 
descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these 
cultural items should submit a written request to the San Francisco 
State University NAGPRA Program. If no additional claimants come 
forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to the lineal 
descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 
this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to the San Francisco State 
University NAGPRA Program at the address in this notice by December 17, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State University 
NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State 
University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone 
(415) 338-3075, email fentress@sfsu.edu.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program that meet 
the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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 cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    In 1960, 1,795 individual and 14 lots of cultural items were 
removed from site Ca-Sha-169 in Redding, CA, by San Francisco State 
University personnel in conjunction with construction of the Wintu 
Pumping Plant as part of the Whiskeytown Reservoir project. Site 
materials from the Whiskeytown Reservoir project were curated at San 
Francisco State University after excavation and surface collection. The 
1,795 individual and 14 lots of cultural items are 73 olivella beads, 2 
haliotis pendants, 4 glycymeris beads, and 1 incised bone (Burial 2); 1 
lot of olivella beads (Burials 2 and 3); 3 obsidian projectile points, 
638 olivella beads, and 1 abalone pendant (Burial 3); 8 haliotis 
pendants (Burial 6); 1 lot of olivella beads, and 3 glycymeris beads 
(Burial 9); 159 olivella beads (Burial 10); 1 obsidian projectile point 
and 21 olivella beads (Burial 11); 1 obsidian projectile point, 1 mixed 
lot of unmodified faunal and obsidian debitage, 4 olivella beads, and 1 
stone bead (Burial 13); 20 olivella beads (Burial 14); 55 olivella 
beads and 4 glycymeris beads (Burial 15); 2 obsidian projectile points, 
1 chert tool, 3 bone tools, and 12 trade beads (Burial 16); 14 obsidian 
projectile points and tools, 29 obsidian nodules, 10 olivella beads, 
and 1 glycymeris beads (Burial 17); 15 olivella beads and 7 individual 
and 1 lot of glycymeris beads (Burial 18); 1 obsidian projectile point 
and 1 bone tool (Burial 21 or 2106); 9 olivella beads, 2 clam shell 
beads, 4 mixed beads (cerithidea, olivella acamea, glycymeris, 
rectangulus), and 1 haliotis pendant (Burial 23); 1 obsidian projectile 
point, 1 pestle, 56 individual and 2 lots of olivella beads, 17 
haliotis pendants, 4 limpet shell beads, 1 glycmeris bead, 1 lot of 
trade beads, and 1 worked mammal tooth pendant (Burial 26); 29 
individual and 1 lot of olivella beads (Burial 28 and 29); 43 olivella 
beads and 1 lot of haliotis pendants (Burial 30); 3 obsidian points, 1 
pestle, 247 olivella beads, 2 haliotis pendants, 30 glycymeris beads, 3 
limpet beads, and 3 pebbles (Burial 31); 1 obsidian projectile point, 
18 olivella shell beads, 1 glycymeris bead, and 1 baked clay object 
(Burial 33); 2 obsidian tools, 4 lots of olivella beads, 1 haliotis 
pendant, 1 piece of charcoal, and 1 pebble (Burial 35); 1 chert tool, 
200 olivella beads, and 1 lot of pine nut beads (Burial 36 and 37); and 
1 obsidian point and 14 olivella beads (Burial 39). The human remains 
associated with these burials are not present at San Francisco State 
University.
    Ca-Sha-169 had archeological assemblages consistent with the Shasta 
Complex which is considered the archeological representation of the 
ethnographic Wintu, with a time-depth of circa A.D. 1050. Oral history 
evidence presented during consultation indicates that the Redding, CA 
area has been continuously occupied by the Wintu since the contact 
period and that there is a cultural affiliation between the Redding 
Rancheria, California, and the ancestral Wintu people.

Determinations Made by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program

    Officials of the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 1,795 individual and 
14 lots of cultural items 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 and are believed, 
by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a 
specific burial site of a Native American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary objects and Redding Rancheria, California.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State 
University NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San 
Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 
94132, telephone (415) 338-3075, email fentress@sfsu.edu, by December 
17, 2014. After that date, if no additional claimants have come 
forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects to 
the Redding Rancheria, California may proceed.
    The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program is responsible 
for notifying the Redding Rancheria, California, and the Pit River 
Tribe, California (includes XL Ranch, Big

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Bend, Likely, Lookout, Montgomery Creek and Roaring Creek Rancherias) 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 29, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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