Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA, 17012-17013 [2023-05728]
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century descriptions of then-living
Karankawa Indians, the 1973 report
concluded that ‘‘there is little doubt that
the Shell Point series can be identified
as Karankawa.’’
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: geographical,
archeological, linguistic, historical, and
oral traditional.
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Rice University has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of five individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• The 11 objects described in this
notice 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.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in
this notice and the Tonkawa Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in
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 20, 2023. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
Rice University must determine the
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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. Rice University is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribe identified in
this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: March 15, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa
Barbara Museum of Natural History,
Santa Barbara, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Santa
Barbara Museum of Natural History has
completed an inventory of human
remains and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this
notice. The human remains were
removed from a location near Big Oak
Flat in Tuolumne County, California.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after April 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Luke Swetland, President
and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol,
Santa Barbara, CA 93105, telephone
(805) 682–4711, email lswetland@
sbnature2.org.
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 Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the inventory or related records held
SUMMARY:
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by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History.
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, one individual were removed
from a location near Big Oak Flat in
Tuolumne County, California. In 2013, a
box labeled ‘‘Chumash Skull’’ and
containing a human cranium and
mandible was discovered among the
items donated by an estate to a thrift
store in Ojai, California. The Ventura
County Sheriff’s Department released
the cranial remains to Julie TumamaitStenslie, Barbaren˜o/Venturen˜o Band of
Chumash Mission Indians, who in turn
transferred them to the Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History.
Subsequently, an investigation into the
thrift store donation by the Ventura
County Coroner revealed that these
human remains had been in the donor’s
family for over 100 years, they were
removed from a location near Big Oak
Flat in Tuolumne County, and they
were not Chumash. No known
individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: geographical,
kinship, biological, archeological,
linguistic, folkloric, oral traditional,
historical, and other information or
expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the human remains
described in this notice and the
Bridgeport Indian Colony; Tule River
Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation, California; and the
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
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Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the
human remains in this notice must be
sent to the Responsible Official
identified in 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 in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after April 20, 2023. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes identified in
this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: March 15, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion: San
Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program, San Francisco, CA, and
University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San
Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program and University of California,
Berkeley have completed a joint
inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and have
determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains
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and associated funerary objects and
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from Shasta County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after
April 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Michelle Fitzgerald, San
Francisco State University, 1600
Holloway Avenue, Administration
Building 5th Floor, ADM 562C, San
Francisco, CA 94132, telephone (415)
405–3545, email nagpra@sfsu.edu, and
Alex Lucas, University of California,
Berkeley, Office of Government and
Community Relations, 120 California
Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone
(925) 791–7231, email nagpra-ucb@
berkeley.edu.
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 San Francisco
State University NAGPRA Program and
the University of California, Berkeley.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on
the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the San Francisco State
University NAGPRA Program and the
University of California, Berkeley.
Description
In 1960, human remains representing,
at minimum, 17 individuals, were
removed from site CA–SHA–169 in
Shasta County, CA, as part of
excavations conducted by San Francisco
State College (now San Francisco State
University) prior to construction of a
pumping plant. The site is multicomponent, spanning periods before
and after European contact. According
to San Francisco State files, human
remains and cultural items were housed
at San Francisco State University after
the excavation, and an undated
document from the former Treganza
Anthropology Museum (TAM) at San
Francisco State University states that ‘‘8
cardboard boxes-all burials’’ from CA–
SHA–169 were sent to the Lowie (now
Hearst) Museum at the University of
California, Berkeley. A letter from the
former TAM to the Lowie Museum on
May 26, 1969, indicates the burials were
transferred ‘‘late in 1965 or early in
1966.’’ San Francisco State University
repatriated other human remains and
associated funerary objects from this site
in 2016 but had previously categorized
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additional cultural items as ‘‘Non-Burial
Material.’’ However, through additional
consultation in 2022, these items (listed
below) were re-categorized as associated
funerary objects. The 50 associated
funerary objects are made up of 44
associated funerary objects held by San
Francisco State University and six
associated funerary objects held by
University of California, Berkeley. The
44 associated funerary objects held by
San Francisco State University are one
lot of antler items, one lot of arrow shaft
straighteners, one basalt blade, one lot
of obsidian blades, one lot of obsidian
flakes, one lot of bone awls, one lot of
bone beads, one lot of bone fish gorges,
one stone chopper, one lot of clam shell
disc beads, one chert core, one lot of
dentalium, one lot of drills, one lot of
modified faunal remains, one modified
glass bottle, one glass bottle, one lot of
Glycymeris shell beads, one
groundstone with red ochre, one lot of
Haliotis shell, one lot of modified
Haliotis shell, one lot of Haliotis shell
pendants, one lot of hammerstones, one
lot of incised bone, one lot of modified
stone, one white glass marble, one
obsidian nodule, one lot of Gunther
barbed projectile points, one lot of
obsidian projectile points, five lots of
Olivella shell beads, one lot of Olivella
shell, one lot of pestles, one pipe bowl
fragment, one porcelain sherd, one
green slate or chert projectile point,
three lots of unidentified shell beads,
one stone pendant, and two lots of trade
beads. The six associated funerary
objects held by University of California,
Berkeley, are one lot of beads, one lot
of shell, one lot of stone, one lot of
faunal remains, one lot of burnt items,
and one matchbox.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: geographical,
historical, other relevant information,
and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the San Francisco State
University NAGPRA Program and the
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035482; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History, Santa Barbara, 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 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human
remains were removed from a location near Big Oak Flat in Tuolumne
County, California.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after April 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Luke Swetland, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105,
telephone (805) 682-4711, email [email protected].
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
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The National Park Service is
not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Additional
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results
of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records held
by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from a location near Big Oak Flat in Tuolumne County, California. In
2013, a box labeled ``Chumash Skull'' and containing a human cranium
and mandible was discovered among the items donated by an estate to a
thrift store in Ojai, California. The Ventura County Sheriff's
Department released the cranial remains to Julie Tumamait-Stenslie,
Barbare[ntilde]o/Venture[ntilde]o Band of Chumash Mission Indians, who
in turn transferred them to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History. Subsequently, an investigation into the thrift store donation
by the Ventura County Coroner revealed that these human remains had
been in the donor's family for over 100 years, they were removed from a
location near Big Oak Flat in Tuolumne County, and they were not
Chumash. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: geographical, kinship,
biological, archeological, linguistic, folkloric, oral traditional,
historical, and other information or expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has
determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Bridgeport Indian Colony; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California; and the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians
of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
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Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after April 20, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: March 15, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-05728 Filed 3-20-23; 8:45 am]
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