81 FR 89146 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 237 (December 9, 2016)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 237 (December 9, 2016)
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 237 (Friday, December 9, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 89146-89147] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-29535] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-22483; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA. 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA at the address in this notice by January 9, 2017. ADDRESSES: Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 1978, 132 cultural items were removed from Lindero Canyon (CA- VEN-606) in Ventura County, CA. Collections from the site derive from a survey and excavation led by Dr. William Clewlow, Jr., during the North Ranch Inland Chumash research project. A second investigation was conducted in 1979 under the direction of Holly Love and Rheta Resnick. Excavations took place on land privately owned by the Prudential Insurance Company. The collections were curated at UCLA in 1979. The site has been dated to the Late Period, A.D. 1300-1650. During excavations a cemetery was discovered and 13 burials were uncovered and left in-situ, but burial objects were removed for study. Funerary objects were identified as being removed from six burials (MM, HH, LL, EE, KK, and 2). The unassociated funerary objects are 126 objects and 6 bags of artifacts, including 12 pieces and 4 bags of shell fragments, 2 shell beads, 62 stone flakes, 1 cobble, 3 quartz crystals, 41 pieces and 2 bags of unmodified animal bone, 4 ochre fragments, and 1 charcoal lump. Since the represented burials were left in situ the curated burial items are unassociated funerary objects. The site detailed in this notice has been identified through consultation to be within the traditional territory of the Chumash. These locations are consistent with ethnographic and historic documentation. 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. The site listed in this notice is located in Ventura County and falls within the geographical area identified as Chumash. Some 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 consultants to be relational with clans, or associations of traditional practitioners of specific kinds of indigenous medicinal and ceremonial practices. Some consultants identified these clans as existing in the pre-contact period, and identified some as also existing in the present day. Other consultants do not recognize present-day geographical divisions to be related to clans of traditional practitioners. Ethnographic evidence suggests that the social and political organizations 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 are consistent with funerary objects placed by groups ancestral to the present-day Chumash people. The material culture of those earlier groups living in the geographical areas mentioned above is characterized by archeologists as having passed through developmental 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. Native 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 of occupation by the Chumash people can be traced for the site listed in this notice. Determinations Made by the Fowler Museum at UCLA Officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 132 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. 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 [[Page 89147]] 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 Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, email [email protected], by January 9, 2017. 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA 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: November 28, 2016. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2016-29535 Filed 12-8-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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will be electronically distributed to all responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 or associations of traditional
Committee members. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in practitioners of specific kinds of
this notice are the sole responsibility of indigenous medicinal and ceremonial
Alma Ripps,
the museum, institution, or Federal practices. Some consultants identified
Chief, Office of Policy. agency that has control of the Native these clans as existing in the pre-contact
[FR Doc. 2016–29552 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am] American cultural items. The National period, and identified some as also
BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Park Service is not responsible for the existing in the present day. Other
determinations in this notice. consultants do not recognize present-
day geographical divisions to be related
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR History and Description of the Cultural
to clans of traditional practitioners.
Items
Ethnographic evidence suggests that the
National Park Service In 1978, 132 cultural items were social and political organizations of the
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22483; removed from Lindero Canyon (CA– pre-contact Channel Islands were
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] VEN–606) in Ventura County, CA. primarily at the village level, with a
Collections from the site derive from a hereditary chief, in addition to many
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural survey and excavation led by Dr. other specialists who wielded power.
Items: Fowler Museum at the William Clewlow, Jr., during the North The unassociated funerary objects are
University of California Los Angeles, Ranch Inland Chumash research project. consistent with funerary objects placed
Los Angeles, CA A second investigation was conducted by groups ancestral to the present-day
in 1979 under the direction of Holly Chumash people. The material culture
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Love and Rheta Resnick. Excavations of those earlier groups living in the
ACTION: Notice. took place on land privately owned by geographical areas mentioned above is
the Prudential Insurance Company. The characterized by archeologists as having
SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the collections were curated at UCLA in
University of California Los Angeles passed through developmental stages
1979. The site has been dated to the Late over the past 10,000 years. Many local
(UCLA), in consultation with the Period, A.D. 1300–1650. During
appropriate Indian tribes or Native archeologists assert that the changes in
excavations a cemetery was discovered the material culture reflect evolving
Hawaiian organizations, has determined and 13 burials were uncovered and left
that the cultural items listed in this ecological adaptations and related
in-situ, but burial objects were removed changes in social organization of the
notice meet the definition of for study. Funerary objects were
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal same populations, and do not represent
identified as being removed from six population displacements or
descendants or representatives of any burials (MM, HH, LL, EE, KK, and 2).
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian movements. The same range of artifact
The unassociated funerary objects are types and materials were used from the
organization not identified in this notice 126 objects and 6 bags of artifacts,
that wish to claim these cultural items early pre-contact period until historic
including 12 pieces and 4 bags of shell times. Native consultants explicitly state
should submit a written request to the fragments, 2 shell beads, 62 stone flakes,
Fowler Museum at UCLA. If no that population mixing, which did
1 cobble, 3 quartz crystals, 41 pieces occur on a small scale, would not alter
additional claimants come forward, and 2 bags of unmodified animal bone,
transfer of control of the cultural items the continuity of the shared group
4 ochre fragments, and 1 charcoal lump. identities of people associated with
to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, Since the represented burials were left
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated specific locales. Based on this evidence,
in situ the curated burial items are continuity of occupation by the
in this notice may proceed. unassociated funerary objects. Chumash people can be traced for the
DATES: Lineal descendants or The site detailed in this notice has site listed in this notice.
representatives of any Indian tribe or been identified through consultation to
Native Hawaiian organization not be within the traditional territory of the Determinations Made by the Fowler
identified in this notice that wish to Chumash. These locations are consistent Museum at UCLA
claim these cultural items should with ethnographic and historic Officials of the Fowler Museum at
submit a written request with documentation. UCLA have determined that:
information in support of the claim to The Chumash territory, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
the Fowler Museum at UCLA at the anthropologically defined first on the the 132 cultural items described above
address in this notice by January 9, basis of linguistic similarities, and are reasonably believed to have been
2017. subsequently on broadly shared material placed with or near individual human
and cultural traits, reaches from San remains at the time of death or later as
ADDRESSES: Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Luis Obispo to Malibu on the coast,
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, part of the death rite or ceremony and
inland to the western edge of the San are believed, by a preponderance of the
Los Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone Joaquin Valley, to the edge of the San
(310) 825–1864, email wteeter@ evidence, to have been removed from a
Fernando Valley, and includes the four specific burial site of a Native American
arts.ucla.edu. Northern Channel Islands. The site individual.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is listed in this notice is located in • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
here given in accordance with the Ventura County and falls within the is a relationship of shared group
Native American Graves Protection and geographical area identified as identity that can be reasonably traced
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Chumash. Some consultants state that
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between the unassociated funerary
3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural these areas were the responsibility of objects and the Santa Ynez Band of
items under the control of the Fowler regional leaders, who were themselves Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa
Museum at UCLA that meet the organized into a pan-regional Ynez Reservation, California.
definition of unassociated funerary association of both political power and
objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. ceremonial knowledge. Further, these Additional Requestors and Disposition
This notice is published as part of the indigenous areas are identified by some Lineal descendants or representatives
National Park Service’s administrative consultants to be relational with clans, of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
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organization not identified in this notice DATES: The meetings will take place on DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
that wish to claim these cultural items the following dates: Friday, February 3,
should submit a written request with 2017; Friday, April 28, 2017; and National Park Service
information in support of the claim to Thursday, June 8, 2017. [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22473;
Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone Harlan Warren, External Affairs Officer, Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
(310) 825–1864, email wteeter@ Gateway National Recreation Area, Items: University of Oregon Museum of
arts.ucla.edu, by January 9, 2017. After Sandy Hook Unit, 26 Hudson Road, Natural and Cultural History, Eugene,
that date, if no additional claimants Highlands, New Jersey 07732, 732–872– OR
have come forward, transfer of control 5910, email John_Warren@nps.gov.
of the unassociated funerary objects to AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under ACTION: Notice.
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1– SUMMARY: The University of Oregon
California may proceed.
16), the purpose of the Committee is to Museum of Natural and Cultural
The Fowler Museum at UCLA is History, in consultation with the
provide advice to the Secretary of the
responsible for notifying the Santa Ynez appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Interior, through the Director of the
Band of Chumash Mission Indians of Hawaiian organizations, has determined
the Santa Ynez Reservation, California National Park Service, on the
development of a reuse plan and on that the cultural items listed in this
that this notice has been published. notice meet the definition of
matters relating to future uses of certain
Dated: November 28, 2016. buildings at the Fort Hancock and unassociated funerary objects. Lineal
Melanie O’Brien, Sandy Hook Proving Ground National descendants or representatives of any
Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Historic Landmark which lie within Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
[FR Doc. 2016–29535 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am] Gateway National Recreation Area. organization not identified in this notice
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The Committee Web site, http:// should submit a written request to the
www.forthancock21.org, includes University of Oregon Museum of
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR summaries from all prior meetings. Natural and Cultural History. If no
These meetings are open to the public. additional claimants come forward,
National Park Service Interested persons may present, either transfer of control of the cultural items
orally or through written comments, to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes,
[NPS–NERO–GATE–22286; PPNEGATEB0, information for the Committee to or Native Hawaiian organizations stated
PPMVSCS1Z.Y00000] consider during the public meeting. in this notice may proceed.
Written comments will be accepted DATES: Lineal descendants or
Meeting Schedule of the Gateway prior to, during, or after the meeting. representatives of any Indian tribe or
National Recreation Area Fort Hancock Due to time constraints during the Native Hawaiian organization not
21st Century Advisory Committee meeting, the Committee is not able to identified in this notice that wish to
January Through June 2017 read written public comments claim these cultural items should
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. submitted into the record. Individuals submit a written request with
or groups requesting to make oral information in support of the claim to
ACTION: Meeting notice.
comments at the public Committee the University of Oregon Museum of
SUMMARY: In accordance with the meeting will be limited to no more than Natural and Cultural History, at the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 five minutes per speaker. address in this notice by January 9,
U.S.C. Appendix 1–16), notice is hereby 2017.
All comments will be made part of the
given of the January through June 2017 public record and will be electronically ADDRESSES: Dr. Pamela Endzweig,
meeting schedule of the Gateway distributed to all Committee members. Director of Collections, University of
National Recreation Area Fort Hancock Before including your address, Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
21st Century Advisory Committee. telephone number, email address, or History, 1224 University of Oregon,
Agenda: The Committee will offer other personal identifying information Eugene, OR 97403–1224, telephone
expertise and advice regarding the in your written comments, you should (541) 346–5120.
preservation of historic Army buildings SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
be aware that your entire comment
at Fort Hancock and Sandy Hook here given in accordance with the
including your personal identifying
Proving Ground National Historic Native American Graves Protection and
Landmark into a viable, vibrant information will be publicly available.
While you may ask us in your comment Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
community with a variety of uses for 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
visitors, not-for-profit organizations, to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we items under the control of the
residents and others. All meetings will University of Oregon Museum of
begin at 9:00 a.m., with a public cannot guarantee that we will be able to
Natural and Cultural History, Eugene,
comment period at 11:30 a.m. do so.
OR, that meet the definition of
(EASTERN). All meetings are open to unassociated funerary objects under 25
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Alma Ripps,
the public. U.S.C. 3001.
Chief, Office of Policy.
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held This notice is published as part of the
[FR Doc. 2016–29549 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am]
in the Beech Room at the Thompson National Park Service’s administrative
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Park Visitor Center, located at 805 responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
Thompson Park is part of the this notice are the sole responsibility of
Monmouth County Park System. the museum, institution, or Federal
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