83 FR 53082 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 203 (October 19, 2018)

The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on January 27, 2016. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and associated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 203 (Friday, October 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53082-53083]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22790]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026439; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University 
of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles 
(UCLA) has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register on January 27, 2016. This notice corrects the minimum 
number of individuals and associated funerary objects. Lineal 
descendants or 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA. 
If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects 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 
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 Fowler Museum at UCLA at the address in 
this notice by November 19, 2018.

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. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Fowler Museum at 
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were removed from Los Angeles and Santa Barbara Counties, CA.
    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 human remains. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and 
associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (81 FR 4662-4670, January 27, 2016). 
A re-inventory discovered more human remains and associated funerary 
objects than was previously recorded. Transfer of control of the items 
in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4663, January 27, 2016), column 2, 
paragraph 4, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    At an unknown date between 1900 and 1950, human remains 
representing, at minimum, 26 individuals were removed from Sequit 
Creek Indian Mound (CA-LAN-52) in Los Angeles County, CA.

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4663, January 27, 2016), column 2, 
paragraph 4, sentence 5 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The fragmentary human remains represent 20 adult individuals, 
sex unknown, one sub-adult individual (sex unknown), three juvenile 
individuals (sex unknown) and two infant individuals (sex unknown).

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4663, January 27, 2016), column 2, 
paragraph 4, sentence 7 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The two associated funerary objects include two unmodified 
faunal bones.

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4667, January 27, 2016), column 3, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, four 
individuals

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were removed from San Miguel Island (CA-SMI-xxx) in Santa Barbara 
County, CA, from private ranching land, likely in the 1920s, by Dr. 
Guy C. Rich and given to Loye Miller of the UCLA Biology Department 
and accessioned within the Dickey Bird and Mammal Collection.

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4667, January 27, 2016), column 
3,paragraph 2, sentence 5 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The fragmentary human remains represent four individuals of 
unknown age and sex.

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4670, January 27, 2016), column 2, 
paragraph 2, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains 
described in this notice represent the physical remains of 1,827 
individuals of Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (81 FR 4670, January 27, 2016), column 2, 
paragraph 2, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 46,017 objects 
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.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or 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 Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Fowler Museum at 
UCLA, Box 951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, 
email [email protected], by November 19, 2018. After that date, if 
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to Santa Ynez Band of 
Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California may 
proceed.
    The Fowler Museum 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: September 6, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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