Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 84351-84352 [2023-26612]
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At various times, 226 objects of
cultural patrimony were removed from
Laguna Beach in Orange County, CA. In
1935, A.D. Griffin found one object (a
digging tool) at an unidentified site in
Laguna Beach. Subsequently, this item
was donated to LACMNH. At a date
prior to 1971, Carl D. Hegner collected
one object (a donut-shaped stone) from
an unidentified site in Laguna Beach,
and in 1971, the Native Daughters of the
Golden West donated this item to
LACMNH. At a date prior to 1966,
University of Southern California
professor W.J. Wallace excavated 201
objects from Cameo Cove in Laguna
Beach. These items were transferred to
the Laboratory of Anthropology of the
Hancock Foundation (Hancock
Foundation), a now-disbanded museum
that was once part of the University of
Southern California. On February 1,
1966, the Hancock Foundation loaned
these items to LACMNH, and on March
29, 1983, the loan was converted to a
donation. At one or more dates prior to
1966, 23 cultural items were removed
from unidentified sites in Laguna Beach
and transferred to the Hancock
Foundation. On February 1, 1966, the
Hancock Foundation loaned these items
to LACMNH, and on March 29, 1983,
the loan was converted to a donation.
The 226 objects of cultural patrimony
are one bead, four cobble tools, five
cores, one donut-shaped stone, 90
faunal bones or bone fragments, six fire
affected stones, 15 flaked stones, two
groundstone fragments, one
hammerstone, seven manos or mano
fragments, one grooved maul, five
metates or metate fragments, two ochre
fragments, one mortar, two pestle
fragments, eight rocks, one scraper, 73
stones, and one unidentified lithic tool.
In 1954, University of Southern
California professor W.J. Wallace
excavated 22 associated funerary objects
at the Los Altos site (LAN–270) in Long
Beach, Los Angeles County, CA. These
items were transferred to the Hancock
Foundation, and in 1983, the Hancock
Foundation donated them to LACMNH.
The 22 unassociated funerary objects are
three rattles, two bone tubes, one shell,
one bead, two stones, four containers or
container fragments, six tools, two
projectile points, and one faunal bone.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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
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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: anthropological,
archeological, historical, oral
traditional, and Indigenous knowledge.
The Acjachemen Nation, Gabrieleno
Tribes, and Tongva Tribes (‘‘People of
the Earth’’) have strong cultural ties to
the Laguna Beach and Long Beach
coastlines. In particular, Puvungna,
located on the California State
University, Long Beach campus, is a site
sacred to the Gabrieleno, Tongva, and
Acjachemen as being associated with
their Creation account and Tribal
history, and is the locus of annual
pilgrimages by them. The Luisen˜o
people, which include the Pechanga
Band of Indians, share cultural practices
and beliefs with the Gabrieleno, Tongva,
and Acjachemen, and all four groups are
linguistically related.
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Repatriation of the cultural items in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after January 4, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the LACMNH must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The LACMNH 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 10.8, 10.10, and
10.14.
Dated: November 28, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the LACMNH has
determined that:
• The 22 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.
• The 226 cultural items described
above have ongoing historical,
traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group or
culture itself, rather than property
owned by an individual.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items and
the Pechanga Band of Indians
(Previously listed as Pechanga Band of
Luiseno Mission Indians of the
Pechanga Reservation, California).
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible
Official identified in ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by 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.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037008;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology (PMAE) 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 Santa
Barbara and Los Angeles Counties, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 4, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–3702, email pcapone@
fas.harvard.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 PMAE. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
SUMMARY:
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determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the inventory or related records held
by the PMAE.
Description
Human remains representing, at
minimum, 25 individuals were removed
from the Channel Islands, CA. In 1875,
Paul Schumacher led a joint expedition
on behalf of PMAE and the Smithsonian
Institution to what he referred to as the
Santa Barbara Islands, which are today
known as the Channel Islands. During
this expedition, he removed human
remains from San Miguel Island (Santa
Barbara County), Santa Cruz Island
(Santa Barbara County), San Nicolas
Island (Ventura County), and Santa
Catalina Island (Los Angeles County).
The Smithsonian Institution received
the majority of those human remains.
One hundred crania removed from San
Miguel Island and Santa Cruz Island,
and 25 mandibles identified as coming
from the Santa Barbara Islands were
sent to PMAE. Based on PMAE having
received human remains that came from
San Miguel Island and Santa Cruz
Island, the mandibles most likely came
from one or both of those islands, too.
No known associated funerary objects
are present.
Human remains, representing at
minimum, one individual were removed
from Santa Barbra County, California. In
1934, PMAE received these human
remains from the Gila Pueblo
Foundation, which identified them as
coming from Hope Ranch in Santa
Barbara County, CA. No known
associated funerary objects are present.
Human remains, representing at
minimum one individual, were removed
from Los Angeles County, CA. In 1939,
Isaac Richardson donated to the PMAE
the remains of an individual that were
recovered from Los Angeles County, CA.
The individual was unearthed by a
steam shovel in Los Flores Canyon, five
miles from Santa Monica on Roosevelt
Highway. No known associated funerary
objects are present.
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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
evidence were used to reasonably trace
the relationship: oral traditional,
geographical, and biological.
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Determinations
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the PMAE has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of 27 individuals 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 Santa
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians
of the Santa Ynez Reservation,
California.
National Park Service
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 in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after January 4, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the PMAE 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 PMAE 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: November 28, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023–26612 Filed 12–4–23; 8:45 am]
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Los
Angeles County Natural History
Museum, Los Angeles, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los
Angeles County Natural History
Museum (LACNHM) has completed an
inventory of human remains and has
determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains
and Indian Tribes in this notice. The
human remains were removed from
Orange and Los Angeles Counties, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 4, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Amy E. Gusick, NAGPRA
Officer, Los Angeles County Museum of
Natural History, 900 Exposition
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007,
telephone (213) 763–3370, email
agusick@nhm.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 LACNHM. 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 LACNHM.
SUMMARY:
Description
At an unknown date, human remains
representing, at a minimum, one
individual were removed from Laguna
Beach in Orange County, CA, and at an
unknown date, they were transferred to
the Laboratory of Anthropology of the
Hancock Foundation, a now disbanded
museum once part of the University of
Southern California (U.S.C.). In 1966,
these human remains were donated to
LACNHM. The human remains
(L.2397.66–1) consist of a mandible
belonging to an adult of indeterminate
sex. No associated funerary objects are
present.
Human remains representing, at a
minimum, two individuals were
removed from Long Beach in Los
Angeles County, CA. In 1953, U.S.C.
and California State University, Long
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037008; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology (PMAE) 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 Santa Barbara and Los
Angeles Counties, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 4, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, Harvard University, 11 Divinity
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, 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
PMAE. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
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determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the PMAE.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, 25 individuals were removed
from the Channel Islands, CA. In 1875, Paul Schumacher led a joint
expedition on behalf of PMAE and the Smithsonian Institution to what he
referred to as the Santa Barbara Islands, which are today known as the
Channel Islands. During this expedition, he removed human remains from
San Miguel Island (Santa Barbara County), Santa Cruz Island (Santa
Barbara County), San Nicolas Island (Ventura County), and Santa
Catalina Island (Los Angeles County). The Smithsonian Institution
received the majority of those human remains. One hundred crania
removed from San Miguel Island and Santa Cruz Island, and 25 mandibles
identified as coming from the Santa Barbara Islands were sent to PMAE.
Based on PMAE having received human remains that came from San Miguel
Island and Santa Cruz Island, the mandibles most likely came from one
or both of those islands, too. No known associated funerary objects are
present.
Human remains, representing at minimum, one individual were removed
from Santa Barbra County, California. In 1934, PMAE received these
human remains from the Gila Pueblo Foundation, which identified them as
coming from Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara County, CA. No known associated
funerary objects are present.
Human remains, representing at minimum one individual, were removed
from Los Angeles County, CA. In 1939, Isaac Richardson donated to the
PMAE the remains of an individual that were recovered from Los Angeles
County, CA. The individual was unearthed by a steam shovel in Los
Flores Canyon, five miles from Santa Monica on Roosevelt Highway. No
known 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 evidence were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: oral traditional,
geographical, and biological.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the PMAE has determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 27 individuals 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 Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez
Reservation, California.
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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after January 4, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the PMAE 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 PMAE 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: November 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-26612 Filed 12-4-23; 8:45 am]
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