81 FR 4651 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 17 (January 27, 2016)

Page Range		4651-4652
FR Document		2016-01597

The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California Department of Parks and Recreation, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have 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 California Department of Parks and Recreation. 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.

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[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-20018; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at 
the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and 
California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles 
(UCLA) and California Department of Parks and Recreation, in 
consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations, have 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 California 
Department of Parks and Recreation. 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 California Department of 
Parks and Recreation at the address in this notice by February 26, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: Leslie Hartzell, Ph.D., NAGPRA Coordinator, Cultural 
Resources Division Chief, California State Parks, P.O. Box 942896, 
Sacramento, CA 94296-0001, telephone (916) 653-9946, email 
[email protected].

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 California Department of Parks and Recreation 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 1954, two burial objects were removed from Arroyo Sequit (CA-
LAN-52) in Los Angeles County, CA. Excavations were conducted by 
Clement Meighan as a UCLA Department of Anthropology and Sociology 
field school to salvage information from portions of the site that were 
to be lost due to highway widening. This collection was curated at UCLA 
after analysis was complete. The excavations were located on lands 
belonging to the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Arroyo 
Sequit is also recorded as the village of Lisiqshi with a radiocarbon 
date of A.D. 610 100, placing occupation in the Late Period 
through Spanish contact. The excavation notes indicate that an adult 
female burial was excavated (Burial 1). The human remains from this 
burial were not curated at UCLA and notes indicate the human remains 
were donated to Freddie Curtis in 1958. The current location of these 
human remains is unknown to UCLA. The two objects, a projectile point 
and a flake scraper associated with Burial 1, are present in the 
collection. Because the human remains are not at UCLA, these objects 
are considered unassociated funerary objects under NAGPRA.
    In 1970 and 1971, 8,475 cultural items were removed from Humaliwu 
(CA-LAN-264) in Malibu, Los Angeles County, CA. Nelson N. Leonard 
obtained permission to have a UCLA Anthropology field course conduct 
research, which included excavation of

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the historic cemetery on California Department of Parks and Recreation 
property. Collections were accessioned at UCLA as they returned from 
the field. The village dates from A.D. 550-1805. Excavations included 
the village's historic cemetery, and while all items identified as 
being associated with a particular burial were included in a separate 
Notice of Inventory Completion, excavators further identified objects 
recovered from the cemetery in general. In consultation with descendent 
communities, all items from the cemetery were requested for 
repatriation and are included as unassociated funerary objects. The 
unassociated funerary objects are 191 lumps, plugs, and fragments, 30 
bags of asphaltum fragments many with basketry, wood, and fabric 
impressions, 698 pieces and 19 bags of unmodified animal bone, 14 
pieces of worked bone, 1 ceramic fragment, 7 bags of charcoal, 1 bag of 
clay fragments with basketry impression, 1 adobe fragment, 3 glass 
bottle fragments, 1 worked glass piece, 1 cordage fragment, 24 whole 
and fragmented unmodified shells, 214 worked shell objects, 3 asphaltum 
plugged shell dishes, 2 steatite pendants, 1 elbow pipe, 1 soil sample 
bag, 6,524 individual stone, shell, and glass beads, 72 pieces of 
ochre, 10 bags and 9 wood fragments, 26 metal objects, 4 bullet shells, 
1 bag of iron fragments, 1 column sample bag, 6 soapstone comals, 94 
stone bowl fragments, 3 tarring pebbles, 414 chipped stone flakes and 
tools, 36 ground stone tools, and 63 stone fragments.
    The sites detailed in this notice have been identified through 
tribal consultation to be within the traditional territory of the 
Chumash people. These locations are consistent with ethnographic and 
historic documentation of the Chumash people.
    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. At the southern and southeastern boundaries of the territory 
there is evidence of the physical co-existence of Chumash, Tataviam, 
and Gabrielino/Tongva languages and beliefs systems. At the northern 
boundary of the territory there is evidence of the physical co-
existence of Chumash and Salinan groups. The sites in this notice are 
located in northwestern Los Angeles County and fall within the 
geographical area identified as Chumash. Some tribal 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 tribal consultants to be relational with clans or 
associations of traditional practitioners of specific kinds of 
indigenous medicinal and ceremonial practices. Some tribal consultants 
identified these clans as existing in the pre-contact period and 
identified some clans as also existing in the present day. Other tribal 
consultants do not recognize present-day geographical divisions to be 
related to clans of traditional practitioners. However, they do state 
that Chumash, Tataviam, and Gabrielino/Tongva territories were and are 
occupied by socially distinct, yet interrelated, groups which have been 
characterized by anthropologists. Ethnographic evidence suggests that 
the social and political organization 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 described in this notice are 
consistent with those of groups ancestral to the present-day Chumash, 
Tataviam, and Gabrielino/Tongva. The material cultures of earlier 
groups living in the geographical areas mentioned in this notice are 
characterized by archeologists as having passed through 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. Tribal 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 through time can 
be traced for all sites listed in this notice with present-day Chumash 
people, specifically the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of 
the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.

Determinations Made by the California Department of Parks and 
Recreation

    Officials of the California Department of Parks and Recreation have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 8,477 cultural items 
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 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 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 Leslie Hartzell, Ph.D., NAGPRA Coordinator, 
Cultural Resources Division Chief, California State Parks, P.O. Box 
942896, Sacramento, CA 94296-0001, telephone (916) 653-9946, email 
[email protected], by February 26, 2016. 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 California Department of Parks and Recreation 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: December 21, 2015.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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flakes, 6 stones, 1 core tools, 2 bone request to Ben Garcia, Deputy Director, ADDRESSES: Leslie Hartzell, Ph.D.,
awls, 1 ring stone, 24 flakes, and 13 San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El NAGPRA Coordinator, Cultural
shells. Prado, San Diego, CA 92101, telephone Resources Division Chief, California
In 1950, human remains representing, (619) 239–2001 ext. 17, email bgarcia@ State Parks, P.O. Box 942896,
at minimum, 1 individual were museumofman.org, February 26, 2016. Sacramento, CA 94296–0001, telephone
collected from CA–SDI–4669 (W–12) by After that date, if no additional (916) 653–9946, email leslie.hartzell@
Carr Tuthill on behalf of the San Diego requestors have come forward, transfer parks.ca.gov.
Museum of Man due to construction on of control of the human remains and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
the William H. Black Estate. No known associated funerary objects to The here given in accordance with the
individuals were identified. The 1 Tribes may proceed. Native American Graves Protection and
associated funerary object is 1 lot of The San Diego Museum of Man is Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
stone beads. responsible for notifying The Tribes that 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
These five sites were originally this notice has been published. items under the control of the California
identified by Malcolm J. Rogers and
Dated: December 29, 2015. Department of Parks and Recreation that
designated as: W–1 (CA–SDI–39) and
Amberleigh Malone, meet the definition of unassociated
W–2 (CA–SDI–18307), known as the
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
Spindrift/La Jolla Shores sites; W–5
[FR Doc. 2016–01588 Filed 1–26–16; 8:45 am] This notice is published as part of the
(CA–SDI–4670) known as the Middle
National Park Service’s administrative
Midden; W–9 (CA–SDI–525), later BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
named the Cemetery; and W–12 (CA–
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
SDI–4669) known as Skeleton Hill.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR this notice are the sole responsibility of
Excavations from these sites were
the museum, institution, or Federal
conducted by Rogers, as well as other
National Park Service agency that has control of the Native
individuals, including San Diego
American cultural items. The National
Museum of Man staff. Many of these
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20018; Park Service is not responsible for the
excavations occurred while Rogers was
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] determinations in this notice.
employed by the San Diego Museum of
Man. These five sites are all located History and Description of the Cultural
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
within well-known and documented Items
Items: Fowler Museum at the
aboriginal territories of the Kumeyaay In 1954, two burial objects were
University of California Los Angeles,
Nation. Based on archeological removed from Arroyo Sequit (CA–LAN–
Los Angeles, CA, and California
evidence, geographic location, 52) in Los Angeles County, CA.
Department of Parks and Recreation,
ethnographic information, and oral Excavations were conducted by Clement
Sacramento, CA
history evidence, these remains have Meighan as a UCLA Department of
been identified as Native American. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Anthropology and Sociology field
Determinations Made by the San Diego ACTION: Notice. school to salvage information from
Museum of Man portions of the site that were to be lost
SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the due to highway widening. This
Officials of the San Diego Museum of University of California Los Angeles
Man have determined that: collection was curated at UCLA after
(UCLA) and California Department of analysis was complete. The excavations
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Parks and Recreation, in consultation
human remains described in this notice were located on lands belonging to the
with the appropriate Indian tribes or California Department of Parks and
represent the physical remains of 66 Native Hawaiian organizations, have
individuals of Native American Recreation. Arroyo Sequit is also
determined that the cultural items listed recorded as the village of Lisiqshi with
ancestry. in this notice meet the definition of
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), a radiocarbon date of A.D. 610 ±100,
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal placing occupation in the Late Period
the 82 associated funerary objects
descendants or representatives of any through Spanish contact. The
described in this notice are reasonably
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian excavation notes indicate that an adult
believed to have been placed with or
organization not identified in this notice female burial was excavated (Burial 1).
near individual human remains at time
that wish to claim these cultural items The human remains from this burial
of death or later as part of the death rite
should submit a written request to the were not curated at UCLA and notes
or ceremony.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there California Department of Parks and indicate the human remains were
is a relationship of shared group Recreation. If no additional claimants donated to Freddie Curtis in 1958. The
identity that can be reasonably traced come forward, transfer of control of the current location of these human remains
between the Native American human cultural items to the lineal descendants, is unknown to UCLA. The two objects,
remains and associated funerary objects Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian a projectile point and a flake scraper
and the Kumeyaay Nation, as organizations stated in this notice may associated with Burial 1, are present in
represented by The Tribes. proceed. the collection. Because the human
DATES: Lineal descendants or remains are not at UCLA, these objects
Additional Requestors and Disposition representatives of any Indian tribe or are considered unassociated funerary
asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES

Lineal descendants and Native Hawaiian organization not objects under NAGPRA.
representatives of any Indian tribe or identified in this notice that wish to In 1970 and 1971, 8,475 cultural items
Native Hawaiian organization not claim these cultural items should were removed from Humaliwu (CA–
identified in this notice that wish to submit a written request with LAN–264) in Malibu, Los Angeles
request transfer of control of these information in support of the claim to County, CA. Nelson N. Leonard
human remains and associated funerary the California Department of Parks and obtained permission to have a UCLA
objects should submit a written request Recreation at the address in this notice Anthropology field course conduct
with information in support of the by February 26, 2016. research, which included excavation of

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81 FR 4651 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA

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