81 FR 4652 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 17 (January 27, 2016)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 17 (January 27, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-01603 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 4652-4654] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-01603] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-20022; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the California Department [[Page 4653]] of Transportation have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and have determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and any present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the California Department of Transportation. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed. DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to the California Department of Transportation at the address in this notice by February 26, 2016. ADDRESSES: Tina Biorn, California Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 942874 MS 27, Sacramento, CA 94271-0001, telephone (916) 653-0013, 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. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects in the physical custody of the Fowler Museum at UCLA and under the control of the California Department of Transportation. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Los Angeles County, CA. This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Consultation A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Fowler Museum at UCLA professional staff in consultation with representatives of Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California; San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California (previously listed as the San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual Reservation); and the following nonfederally recognized Indian groups: Fernande[ntilde]o Tataviam Band of Mission Indians; Gabrielino/Tongva Indians of California Tribe; Gabrielino/Tongva Nation; Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council; San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians; Ti'at Society; and the Traditional Council of Pimu. History and Description of the Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects In 1945, 1963, 1967, and 1968, human remains representing, at minimum, seven individuals were removed from Big Tujunga Wash (CA-LAN- 167) in Los Angeles County, CA. The site was excavated in 1963 by Jay Ruby of the UCLA Archaeological Survey. The excavation was carried out as a salvage project after a dragline digging operation for a sewer line exposed and damaged one burial within the highway right-of-way. The human remains from this burial were recovered at that time. Subsequent review of the collection also identified fragmentary remains from midden contexts. A second burial, excavated from the site sometime between 1945-1951, by Edwin Walker of the Southwest Museum, was included along with the 1963 collection under Accession Number 501 and is included here. In all, a minimum of four adults, an infant, and a juvenile are represented. Sex was unable to be determined for any of the human remains. Nelson N. Leonard led a second project during the summers of 1967 and 1968 as mitigation for the building of the Foothill Freeway over the site. From the 1967-68 project, a juvenile human molar was identified. Ruby dated the site to A.D. 435 to 1800. No known individuals were identified. The 14 associated funerary objects are animal bones recovered in proximity to the burial recovered in 1945. In 1965, human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were removed from the Hammack Street site in Los Angeles County, CA (CA-LAN-194). The site was excavated by Chester King of the University of California Davis Anthropology Department for the California Department of Transportation. The project was designed for mitigation of impacts to the site from freeway construction for the Marina Freeway. The collection was curated at UCLA after analysis. Site CA- LAN-194 dates to the historic period based on the artifact analyses. The human remains consists of three human bone removed from midden contexts representing at least three individuals. No age or sex could be determined due to their fragmentary nature. No known individuals were identified. Collection documentation does not indicate any burials or associated funerary objects. The sites detailed in this notice have been identified through tribal consultation to be within the traditional territory of the Tataviam/Fernandeno and Tongva/Gabrielino people. These locations are consistent with ethnographic and historic documentation of the Tataviam/Fernandeno and Tongva/Gabrielino people. Linguistic and ethnohistoric evidence shows that these Takic- speaking peoples moved into the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area by at least 3000 B.C. These groups have a common heritage, but began to diverge after arrival. Analysis of historical records from missions in the Greater Los Angeles area shows that at the time of mission recruitment, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the occupants of the area were descended from the populations living in the area since 3000 B.C. The associated funerary objects described in this notice are consistent with those of groups ancestral to the present-day Tataviam/ Fernandeno and Tongva/Gabrielino people. 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 5,000 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 Tataviam/Fernandeno and Tongva/Gabrielino people. However, the Tataviam/Fernandeno and Tongva/Gabrielino people currently lack federal recognition within a single unified tribe. At the time of the excavation and removal of these human remains and associated funerary objects, the land from which the human remains and [[Page 4654]] associated funerary objects were removed was not the tribal land of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization. In 2014 and 2015, the Fowler Museum at UCLA consulted with Indian tribes who are recognized as aboriginal to the area from which these Native American human remains and associated funerary objects were removed. None of these Indian tribes agreed to accept control of the human remains and associated funerary objects. In October 2015, the Fowler Museum at UCLA and California Department of Transportation agreed to transfer control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California (previously listed as the San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual Reservation). Determinations Made by the California Department of Transportation Officials of the California Department of Transportation have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of 10 individuals of Native American ancestry based on metric and non-metric analysis. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 14 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. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and any present-day Indian tribe. Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i), the disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects may be to San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California (previously listed as the San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual Reservation). Additional Requestors and Disposition Representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to Tina Biorn, California Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 942874 MS 27, Sacramento, CA 94271-0001, telephone (916) 653-0013; email [email protected], by February 26, 2016. After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California (previously listed as the San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual Reservation), may proceed. The California Department of Transportation is responsible for notifying the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California (previously listed as the San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual Reservation), that this notice has been published. Dated: December 21, 2015. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2016-01603 Filed 1-26-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-50-P
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the historic cemetery on California identified as Chumash. Some tribal • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
Department of Parks and Recreation consultants state that these areas were the 8,477 cultural items described in
property. Collections were accessioned the responsibility of regional leaders, this notice are reasonably believed to
at UCLA as they returned from the field. who were themselves organized into a have been placed with or near
The village dates from A.D. 550–1805. pan-regional association of both individual human remains at the time of
Excavations included the village’s political power and ceremonial death or later as part of the death rite
historic cemetery, and while all items knowledge. Further, these indigenous or ceremony and are believed, by a
identified as being associated with a areas are identified by some tribal preponderance of the evidence, to have
particular burial were included in a consultants to be relational with clans been removed from a specific burial site
separate Notice of Inventory or associations of traditional of a Native American individual.
Completion, excavators further practitioners of specific kinds of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
identified objects recovered from the indigenous medicinal and ceremonial is a relationship of shared group
cemetery in general. In consultation practices. Some tribal consultants identity that can be reasonably traced
with descendent communities, all items identified these clans as existing in the between the unassociated funerary
from the cemetery were requested for pre-contact period and identified some objects and the Santa Ynez Band of
repatriation and are included as clans as also existing in the present day. Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa
unassociated funerary objects. The Other tribal consultants do not Ynez Reservation, California.
unassociated funerary objects are 191 recognize present-day geographical
lumps, plugs, and fragments, 30 bags of Additional Requestors and Disposition
divisions to be related to clans of
asphaltum fragments many with traditional practitioners. However, they Lineal descendants or representatives
basketry, wood, and fabric impressions, do state that Chumash, Tataviam, and of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
698 pieces and 19 bags of unmodified Gabrielino/Tongva territories were and organization not identified in this notice
animal bone, 14 pieces of worked bone, are occupied by socially distinct, yet that wish to claim these cultural items
1 ceramic fragment, 7 bags of charcoal, interrelated, groups which have been should submit a written request with
1 bag of clay fragments with basketry characterized by anthropologists. information in support of the claim to
impression, 1 adobe fragment, 3 glass Ethnographic evidence suggests that the Leslie Hartzell, Ph.D., NAGPRA
bottle fragments, 1 worked glass piece, social and political organization of the Coordinator, Cultural Resources
1 cordage fragment, 24 whole and pre-contact Channel Islands were Division Chief, California State Parks,
fragmented unmodified shells, 214 primarily at the village level, with a P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA
worked shell objects, 3 asphaltum hereditary chief, in addition to many 94296–0001, telephone (916) 653–9946,
plugged shell dishes, 2 steatite other specialists who wielded power. email leslie.hartzell@parks.ca.gov, by
pendants, 1 elbow pipe, 1 soil sample February 26, 2016. After that date, if no
The unassociated funerary objects
bag, 6,524 individual stone, shell, and additional claimants have come
described in this notice are consistent
glass beads, 72 pieces of ochre, 10 bags forward, transfer of control of the
with those of groups ancestral to the
and 9 wood fragments, 26 metal objects, unassociated funerary objects to Santa
present-day Chumash, Tataviam, and
4 bullet shells, 1 bag of iron fragments, Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians
Gabrielino/Tongva. The material
1 column sample bag, 6 soapstone of the Santa Ynez Reservation,
cultures of earlier groups living in the
comals, 94 stone bowl fragments, 3 California, may proceed.
geographical areas mentioned in this
tarring pebbles, 414 chipped stone The California Department of Parks
notice are characterized by archeologists
flakes and tools, 36 ground stone tools, and Recreation is responsible for
as having passed through stages over the
and 63 stone fragments. notifying the Santa Ynez Band of
The sites detailed in this notice have past 10,000 years. Many local
Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa
been identified through tribal archeologists assert that the changes in
Ynez Reservation, California, that this
consultation to be within the traditional the material culture reflect evolving
notice has been published.
territory of the Chumash people. These ecological adaptations and related
changes in social organization of the Dated: December 21, 2015.
locations are consistent with
same populations and do not represent Melanie O’Brien,
ethnographic and historic
documentation of the Chumash people. population displacements or Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
The Chumash territory, movements. The same range of artifact [FR Doc. 2016–01597 Filed 1–26–16; 8:45 am]
anthropologically defined first on the types and materials were used from the BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
basis of linguistic similarities, and early pre-contact period until historic
subsequently on broadly shared material times. Tribal consultants explicitly state
and cultural traits, reaches from San that population mixing, which did DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Luis Obispo to Malibu on the coast, occur on a small scale, would not alter
the continuity of the shared group National Park Service
inland to the western edge of the San
Joaquin Valley, to the edge of the San identities of people associated with [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20022;
Fernando Valley, and includes the four specific locales. Based on this evidence, PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Northern Channel Islands. At the continuity through time can be traced
southern and southeastern boundaries for all sites listed in this notice with Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler
of the territory there is evidence of the present-day Chumash people, Museum at the University of California
physical co-existence of Chumash, specifically the Santa Ynez Band of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, and
asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Tataviam, and Gabrielino/Tongva Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa California Department of
languages and beliefs systems. At the Ynez Reservation, California. Transportation, Sacramento, CA
northern boundary of the territory there Determinations Made by the California AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
is evidence of the physical co-existence Department of Parks and Recreation ACTION: Notice.
of Chumash and Salinan groups. The
sites in this notice are located in Officials of the California Department SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the
northwestern Los Angeles County and of Parks and Recreation have University of California Los Angeles
fall within the geographical area determined that: (UCLA) and the California Department
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associated funerary objects were Manuel Band of Mission Indians, and associated funerary objects were
removed was not the tribal land of any California (previously listed as the San removed from Berkeley County, SC.
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Manual Band of Serrano Mission This notice is published as part of the
organization. In 2014 and 2015, the Indians of the San Manual Reservation), National Park Service’s administrative
Fowler Museum at UCLA consulted may proceed. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
with Indian tribes who are recognized as The California Department of U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
aboriginal to the area from which these Transportation is responsible for this notice are the sole responsibility of
Native American human remains and notifying the San Manuel Band of the museum, institution, or Federal
associated funerary objects were Mission Indians, California (previously agency that has control of the Native
removed. None of these Indian tribes listed as the San Manual Band of American human remains and
agreed to accept control of the human Serrano Mission Indians of the San associated funerary objects The National
remains and associated funerary objects. Manual Reservation), that this notice Park Service is not responsible for the
In October 2015, the Fowler Museum at has been published. determinations in this notice.
UCLA and California Department of Dated: December 21, 2015. This notice corrects the number of
Transportation agreed to transfer control associated funerary objects published in
Melanie O’Brien,
of the human remains and associated a Notice of Inventory Completion in the
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
funerary objects to San Manuel Band of Federal Register (80 FR 13614, March
[FR Doc. 2016–01603 Filed 1–26–16; 8:45 am] 16, 2015). Additional boxes of material
Mission Indians, California (previously
BILLING CODE 4312–50–P that contained associated funerary
listed as the San Manual Band of
Serrano Mission Indians of the San objects were identified by the repository
Manual Reservation). after the original inventory. These items
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR were inventoried in March 2015, after
Determinations Made by the California the publication of the initial Notice.
Department of Transportation National Park Service
Transfer of control of the items in this
Officials of the California Department [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–19979; correction notice has not occurred.
of Transportation have determined that: PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Correction
human remains described in this notice Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. In the Federal Register (80 FR 13615,
represent the physical remains of 10 Department of Defense, Army Corps of March 16, 2015), column 1, sentence 6,
individuals of Native American ancestry Engineers, Charleston District, under the heading ‘‘History and
based on metric and non-metric Charleston, SC; Correction Description of the Remains,’’ is
analysis. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. corrected by substituting the following
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), ACTION: Notice; correction. sentence:
the 14 items described in this notice are The 113,227 associated funerary objects are
reasonably believed to have been placed SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 3 beads, 323 ceramic sherds, 350 concretions,
with or near individual human remains Engineers, Charleston District has 106,771 faunal fragments, 60 fossils (shell
at the time of death or later as part of corrected an inventory of human and coral), 2,281 lithic flakes (orthoquartzite,
the death rite or ceremony. remains and associated funerary objects chert, and quartz), 23 lithic tool fragments, 29
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a published in a Notice of Inventory lots of faunal fragments, 95 lots of screened
relationship of shared group identity material, 99 soil samples, 228 lots of
Completion in the Federal Register on processed flotation. 4 lots of phytolith
cannot be reasonably traced between the March 16, 2015. This notice corrects the samples, 25 organics (wood, seeds, and snail
Native American human remains and number of associated funerary objects. shell), 1 piece of groundstone, 2,569 pieces
associated funerary objects and any DATES: Lineal descendants or of miscellaneous stone/pebbles, 97 pieces of
present-day Indian tribe. representatives of any Indian tribe or charcoal, 1 glass fragment, 10 shell
• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i), Native Hawaiian organization not fragments, and 258 pieces of ochre (red and
the disposition of the human remains identified in this notice that wish to yellow).
and associated funerary objects may be request transfer of control of these In the Federal Register (80 FR 13615,
to San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, human remains and associated funerary March 16, 2015), column 2, bullet 3, is
California (previously listed as the San objects should submit a written request corrected by substituting the following
Manual Band of Serrano Mission with information in support of the sentence:
Indians of the San Manual Reservation). request to the Charleston District at the Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A) the
Additional Requestors and Disposition address in this notice by February 26, 113,227 objects described in this notice are
Representatives of any Indian tribe or 2016. reasonably believed to have been placed with
or near individual human remains at the time
Native Hawaiian organization not ADDRESSES: Mr. Alan Shirey, U.S. Army
of death or later as part of the death rite or
identified in this notice that wish to Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, ceremony.
request transfer of control of these ATTN: CESAC–PM–PL, 69A Hagood
human remains and associated funerary Avenue, Charleston, SC 29403–5107, Additional Requestors and Disposition
objects should submit a written request telephone (843) 329–8166, email Lineal descendants or representatives
with information in support of the alan.d.shirey@usace.army.mil. of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
request to Tina Biorn, California SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is organization not identified in this notice
asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Department of Transportation, P.O. Box here given in accordance with the that wish to request transfer of control
942874 MS 27, Sacramento, CA 94271– Native American Graves Protection and of these human remains and associated
0001, telephone (916) 653–0013; email Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. funerary objects should submit a written
tina.biorn@dot.ca.gov, by February 26, 3003, of the correction of an inventory request with information in support of
2016. After that date, if no additional of human remains and associated the request to Mr. Alan Shirey, U.S.
requestors have come forward, transfer funerary objects under the control of the Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston
of control of the human remains and Charleston District of the U.S. Army District, ATTN: CESAC–PM–PL, 69A
associated funerary objects to the San Corp of Engineers. The human remains Hagood Avenue, Charleston, SC 29403–
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