Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 89146-89147 [2016-29535]
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Fowler Museum at the
University of California Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Fowler Museum at the
University of California Los Angeles
(UCLA), 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
Fowler Museum at UCLA. 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA at the
address in this notice by January 9,
2017.
SUMMARY:
Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D.,
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549,
Los Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone
(310) 825–1864, email wteeter@
arts.ucla.edu.
ADDRESSES:
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 Fowler
Museum at UCLA 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
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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 1978, 132 cultural items were
removed from Lindero Canyon (CA–
VEN–606) in Ventura County, CA.
Collections from the site derive from a
survey and excavation led by Dr.
William Clewlow, Jr., during the North
Ranch Inland Chumash research project.
A second investigation was conducted
in 1979 under the direction of Holly
Love and Rheta Resnick. Excavations
took place on land privately owned by
the Prudential Insurance Company. The
collections were curated at UCLA in
1979. The site has been dated to the Late
Period, A.D. 1300–1650. During
excavations a cemetery was discovered
and 13 burials were uncovered and left
in-situ, but burial objects were removed
for study. Funerary objects were
identified as being removed from six
burials (MM, HH, LL, EE, KK, and 2).
The unassociated funerary objects are
126 objects and 6 bags of artifacts,
including 12 pieces and 4 bags of shell
fragments, 2 shell beads, 62 stone flakes,
1 cobble, 3 quartz crystals, 41 pieces
and 2 bags of unmodified animal bone,
4 ochre fragments, and 1 charcoal lump.
Since the represented burials were left
in situ the curated burial items are
unassociated funerary objects.
The site detailed in this notice has
been identified through consultation to
be within the traditional territory of the
Chumash. These locations are consistent
with ethnographic and historic
documentation.
The Chumash territory,
anthropologically defined first on the
basis of linguistic similarities, and
subsequently on broadly shared material
and cultural traits, reaches from San
Luis Obispo to Malibu on the coast,
inland to the western edge of the San
Joaquin Valley, to the edge of the San
Fernando Valley, and includes the four
Northern Channel Islands. The site
listed in this notice is located in
Ventura County and falls within the
geographical area identified as
Chumash. Some consultants state that
these areas were the responsibility of
regional leaders, who were themselves
organized into a pan-regional
association of both political power and
ceremonial knowledge. Further, these
indigenous areas are identified by some
consultants to be relational with clans,
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or associations of traditional
practitioners of specific kinds of
indigenous medicinal and ceremonial
practices. Some consultants identified
these clans as existing in the pre-contact
period, and identified some as also
existing in the present day. Other
consultants do not recognize presentday geographical divisions to be related
to clans of traditional practitioners.
Ethnographic evidence suggests that the
social and political organizations of the
pre-contact Channel Islands were
primarily at the village level, with a
hereditary chief, in addition to many
other specialists who wielded power.
The unassociated funerary objects are
consistent with funerary objects placed
by groups ancestral to the present-day
Chumash people. The material culture
of those earlier groups living in the
geographical areas mentioned above is
characterized by archeologists as having
passed through developmental stages
over the past 10,000 years. Many local
archeologists assert that the changes in
the material culture reflect evolving
ecological adaptations and related
changes in social organization of the
same populations, and do not represent
population displacements or
movements. The same range of artifact
types and materials were used from the
early pre-contact period until historic
times. Native consultants explicitly state
that population mixing, which did
occur on a small scale, would not alter
the continuity of the shared group
identities of people associated with
specific locales. Based on this evidence,
continuity of occupation by the
Chumash people can be traced for the
site listed in this notice.
Determinations Made by the Fowler
Museum at UCLA
Officials of the Fowler Museum at
UCLA have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
the 132 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 the Santa Ynez Band of
Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa
Ynez Reservation, California.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
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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
Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler
Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los
Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone
(310) 825–1864, email wteeter@
arts.ucla.edu, by January 9, 2017. After
that date, if no additional claimants
have come forward, transfer of control
of the unassociated funerary objects to
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission
Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation,
California may proceed.
The Fowler Museum at UCLA is
responsible for notifying the Santa Ynez
Band of Chumash Mission Indians of
the Santa Ynez Reservation, California
that this notice has been published.
Dated: November 28, 2016.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Meeting Schedule of the Gateway
National Recreation Area Fort Hancock
21st Century Advisory Committee
January Through June 2017
National Park Service, Interior.
Meeting notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. Appendix 1–16), notice is hereby
given of the January through June 2017
meeting schedule of the Gateway
National Recreation Area Fort Hancock
21st Century Advisory Committee.
Agenda: The Committee will offer
expertise and advice regarding the
preservation of historic Army buildings
at Fort Hancock and Sandy Hook
Proving Ground National Historic
Landmark into a viable, vibrant
community with a variety of uses for
visitors, not-for-profit organizations,
residents and others. All meetings will
begin at 9:00 a.m., with a public
comment period at 11:30 a.m.
(EASTERN). All meetings are open to
the public.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held
in the Beech Room at the Thompson
Park Visitor Center, located at 805
Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ.
Thompson Park is part of the
Monmouth County Park System.
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The meetings will take place on
the following dates: Friday, February 3,
2017; Friday, April 28, 2017; and
Thursday, June 8, 2017.
DATES:
John
Harlan Warren, External Affairs Officer,
Gateway National Recreation Area,
Sandy Hook Unit, 26 Hudson Road,
Highlands, New Jersey 07732, 732–872–
5910, email John_Warren@nps.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Under
section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1–
16), the purpose of the Committee is to
provide advice to the Secretary of the
Interior, through the Director of the
National Park Service, on the
development of a reuse plan and on
matters relating to future uses of certain
buildings at the Fort Hancock and
Sandy Hook Proving Ground National
Historic Landmark which lie within
Gateway National Recreation Area.
The Committee Web site, https://
www.forthancock21.org, includes
summaries from all prior meetings.
These meetings are open to the public.
Interested persons may present, either
orally or through written comments,
information for the Committee to
consider during the public meeting.
Written comments will be accepted
prior to, during, or after the meeting.
Due to time constraints during the
meeting, the Committee is not able to
read written public comments
submitted into the record. Individuals
or groups requesting to make oral
comments at the public Committee
meeting will be limited to no more than
five minutes per speaker.
All comments will be made part of the
public record and will be electronically
distributed to all Committee members.
Before including your address,
telephone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information
in your written comments, you should
be aware that your entire comment
including your personal identifying
information will be publicly available.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Alma Ripps,
Chief, Office of Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22473;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History, Eugene,
OR
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The University of Oregon
Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, 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
University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History. 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 University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History, at the
address in this notice by January 9,
2017.
SUMMARY:
Dr. Pamela Endzweig,
Director of Collections, University of
Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, 1224 University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR 97403–1224, telephone
(541) 346–5120.
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
University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History, Eugene,
OR, 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
ADDRESSES:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at
the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles
(UCLA), 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 Fowler
Museum at UCLA. 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA at the
address in this notice by January 9, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, email
wteeter@arts.ucla.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 Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 1978, 132 cultural items were removed from Lindero Canyon (CA-
VEN-606) in Ventura County, CA. Collections from the site derive from a
survey and excavation led by Dr. William Clewlow, Jr., during the North
Ranch Inland Chumash research project. A second investigation was
conducted in 1979 under the direction of Holly Love and Rheta Resnick.
Excavations took place on land privately owned by the Prudential
Insurance Company. The collections were curated at UCLA in 1979. The
site has been dated to the Late Period, A.D. 1300-1650. During
excavations a cemetery was discovered and 13 burials were uncovered and
left in-situ, but burial objects were removed for study. Funerary
objects were identified as being removed from six burials (MM, HH, LL,
EE, KK, and 2). The unassociated funerary objects are 126 objects and 6
bags of artifacts, including 12 pieces and 4 bags of shell fragments, 2
shell beads, 62 stone flakes, 1 cobble, 3 quartz crystals, 41 pieces
and 2 bags of unmodified animal bone, 4 ochre fragments, and 1 charcoal
lump. Since the represented burials were left in situ the curated
burial items are unassociated funerary objects.
The site detailed in this notice has been identified through
consultation to be within the traditional territory of the Chumash.
These locations are consistent with ethnographic and historic
documentation.
The Chumash territory, anthropologically defined first on the basis
of linguistic similarities, and subsequently on broadly shared material
and cultural traits, reaches from San Luis Obispo to Malibu on the
coast, inland to the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, to the
edge of the San Fernando Valley, and includes the four Northern Channel
Islands. The site listed in this notice is located in Ventura County
and falls within the geographical area identified as Chumash. Some
consultants state that these areas were the responsibility of regional
leaders, who were themselves organized into a pan-regional association
of both political power and ceremonial knowledge. Further, these
indigenous areas are identified by some consultants to be relational
with clans, or associations of traditional practitioners of specific
kinds of indigenous medicinal and ceremonial practices. Some
consultants identified these clans as existing in the pre-contact
period, and identified some as also existing in the present day. Other
consultants do not recognize present-day geographical divisions to be
related to clans of traditional practitioners. Ethnographic evidence
suggests that the social and political organizations of the pre-contact
Channel Islands were primarily at the village level, with a hereditary
chief, in addition to many other specialists who wielded power.
The unassociated funerary objects are consistent with funerary
objects placed by groups ancestral to the present-day Chumash people.
The material culture of those earlier groups living in the geographical
areas mentioned above is characterized by archeologists as having
passed through developmental stages over the past 10,000 years. Many
local archeologists assert that the changes in the material culture
reflect evolving ecological adaptations and related changes in social
organization of the same populations, and do not represent population
displacements or movements. The same range of artifact types and
materials were used from the early pre-contact period until historic
times. Native consultants explicitly state that population mixing,
which did occur on a small scale, would not alter the continuity of the
shared group identities of people associated with specific locales.
Based on this evidence, continuity of occupation by the Chumash people
can be traced for the site listed in this notice.
Determinations Made by the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 132 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 the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native
Hawaiian
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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 Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum at UCLA,
Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, email
wteeter@arts.ucla.edu, by January 9, 2017. After that date, if no
additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the
unassociated funerary objects to Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission
Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California may proceed.
The Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible for notifying the Santa
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation,
California that this notice has been published.
Dated: November 28, 2016.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2016-29535 Filed 12-8-16; 8:45 am]
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