Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA, 86368-86369 [2023-27367]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86368-86369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27367]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037053; 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: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes, intends to 
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with 
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The 
cultural items were removed from Lake County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after January 12, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Elise Green, San Francisco State NAGPRA Program, 1600 
Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone (415) 405-3545, 
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 
San Francisco State NAGPRA Program. 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 the consultation, can be found in the summary or related records 
held by the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program.

Description

    In 1972, cultural items were removed from site CA-LAK-305, on the 
main arm of Sam Alley Ridge in Lake County, CA. The items were stored 
in the San Francisco State College Anthropology Collection and 
subsequently became part of the Tregenza Anthropology Museum's (TAM) 
archeological

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collection. Upon closure of the TAM in 2012, the items were transferred 
to the San Francisco State University NAGPRA program. The 180 
unassociated funerary objects are 22 shells, three pieces of wire, one 
medial section square nail, one partial obsidian point, 39 square 
nails, 11 obsidian projectile point tip fragments, six chert projectile 
point fragments, 10 chert scrapers, seven obsidian scrapers, four 
obsidian projectile point fragments, one small square nail, one round 
nail, seven square nail fragments, one partial basal projectile point, 
one notched obsidian point, one corner notch point, two corner notch 
projectile point fragments, two square nail fragments, two corner notch 
obsidian point projectiles, one side notch projectile point, one 
projectile point fragment, two obsidian flakes, one medial section 
square nail, one chert projectile point base fragment, one projectile 
point fragment, one fragment of cooper, one iron chunk, two worked 
chert flakes, 14 worked pieces of chert, one chert corner notch point, 
one drill scraper point, two modified chert flakes, two pieces of 
glass, one square spike, one chert tip fragment, one obsidian burin, 
one medial obsidian projectile point fragment, one Winchester No.12 
shotgun shell, one modified obsidian flake, one obsidian flake tool, 
one basal fragment small projectile point, one large nail, one large 
nail fragment, one chert knife fragment, one utilized chert flake, one 
reworked obsidian flake, two utilized obsidian flakes, one worked piece 
of obsidian, one thin triangular blade tip flake, one chert core medial 
fragment, one square nail medial, one modified piece of chert, four 
worked pieces of obsidian, two pieces of milky quartz, and one heavy 
metal ring.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more 
identifiable groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a 
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable 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: anthropological, archeological, 
geographical, historical, linguistic, and other relevant 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 San Francisco State NAGPRA Program has determined 
that:
     The 180 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Habematolel 
Pomo of Upper Lake, 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.
    Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after January 12, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program 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 San Francisco State 
NAGPRA Program is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the 
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: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-27367 Filed 12-12-23; 8:45 am]
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