83 FR 62891 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 234 (December 6, 2018)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 234 (December 6, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 234 (Thursday, December 6, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 62891-62892] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-26446] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026950; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Oakland Museum of California, 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 or objects of cultural patrimony. 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 Oakland Museum of California. 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 Oakland Museum of California at the address in this notice by January 4, 2019. ADDRESSES: Violetta Wolf, Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607, telephone (510) 318-8489, email [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby 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 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects or objects of cultural patrimony 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 the 19th or 20th century, one cultural item was removed by an unknown party from an unknown location in California. Sometime in the 20th century, the object came into the possession of the father of Mr. William H. Bird, Sr. of Oakland, CA. The circumstances under which Bird's father acquired the cultural item are unclear. Bird gifted the cultural item to the Oakland Museum of California on September 26, 1974, when he distributed his father's collection of Native American cultural items to the Oakland Museum of California, Merritt College, the Lowie Museum of Anthropology (now known as the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology), and the Oakland Museum Women's Board White Elephant Sale. The one object of cultural patrimony is a xaa-ts'a' (mush bowl). The mush bowl (catalog number H74.285.6) was accessioned by the Oakland Museum of California in 1974. The mush bowl is woven from twined [[Page 62892]] bear grass with a diamond pattern. It is approximately four inches tall and eight inches in diameter. The mush bowl was used by family groups. The cultural item has been identified as Tolowa in archival documents and the original gift documentation. Consultations from the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation (previously listed as the Smith River Rancheria, California) and the Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California have both confirmed the Tolowa affiliation of this cultural item. In the 19th or 20th century, one cultural item was removed from the mouth of Smith River in Del Norte County, CA. On November 1, 1949, Mr. M. W. Dadey of Oakland, California, donated the item to the Oakland Public Museum. The circumstances under which the cultural item came into the possession of Mr. Dadey are unknown. In 1965, the collection of the Oakland Public Museum was merged with the collections of two other institutions to create the collection of the Oakland Museum of California. The one unassociated funerary object is a stone maul. The stone maul (catalog number H16.4389) is made from basalt or another igneous rock, is six inches long, and was made by pecking and grinding. The Tolowa Dee-ni' (previously listed as the Smith River Rancheria, California) are culturally affiliated with the area from which the cultural item was removed. This is supported by archival records and reports, museum records, Department of the Interior sources, academic sources, and correspondence with Tolowa Dee-ni' representatives. Additional archival sources and correspondence with the Tolowa Dee-ni' (previously listed as the Smith River Rancheria, California) describe this cultural item as being consistent with the known burial practices of the Tolowa. Determinations Made by the Oakland Museum of California Officials of the Oakland Museum of California have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the one cultural item identified as catalog number H16.4389 and described above is 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 is 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(3)(D), the one cultural item identified as catalog number H74.285.6 and described above has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an individual. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the two cultural items described above and the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation (previously listed as the Smith River Rancheria, 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 Violetta Wolf, Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607, telephone (510) 318-8489, email [email protected], by January 4, 2019. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary object and the object of cultural patrimony to the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation (previously listed as the Smith River Rancheria, California) may proceed. The Oakland Museum of California is responsible for notifying the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation (previously listed as the Smith River Rancheria, California) that this notice has been published. Dated: November 7, 2018. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2018-26446 Filed 12-4-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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removed from the Britt-Decora site (47– Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse additional claimants come forward,
TR–0002) in Trempealeau County, WI. Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake transfer of control of the cultural items
Archeologist Leland Cooper, who was Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes,
associated with Hamline University in Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; or Native Hawaiian organizations stated
Minnesota at the time, excavated the Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota; in this notice may proceed.
site in 1927, and recovered the partially and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South DATES: Lineal descendants or
cremated remains of a single adult from Dakota, hereafter referred to as ‘‘The representatives of any Indian Tribe or
one of the site’s 25 conical mounds. The Aboriginal Land Tribes.’’ Native Hawaiian organization not
human remains were transferred from • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the identified in this notice that wish to
Hamline University to the Wisconsin disposition of the human remains and claim these cultural items should
Historical Society in 1978. Neither field associated funerary objects may be to submit a written request with
notes nor reports from Cooper’s The Aboriginal Land Tribes. information in support of the claim to
investigations were among the the Oakland Museum of California at
Additional Requestors and Disposition
transferred materials. No known the address in this notice by January 4,
individuals were identified. No Representatives of any Indian Tribe or 2019.
associated funerary objects are present. Native Hawaiian organization not
ADDRESSES: Violetta Wolf, Oakland
identified in this notice that wish to
Determinations Made by the Wisconsin request transfer of control of these Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street,
Historical Society human remains and associated funerary Oakland, CA 94607, telephone (510)
Officials of the Wisconsin Historical objects should submit a written request 318–8489, email vwolf@museumca.org.
Society have determined that: with information in support of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the request to Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin hereby given in accordance with the
human remains described in this notice Historical Society, 816 State St, Native American Graves Protection and
are Native American based on Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
Wisconsin Historical Society records, 264–6434, email Jennifer.Kolb@ 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
burial location, archeological context, wisconsinhistory.org, by January 4, items under the control of the Oakland
oral histories, and skeletal analysis. 2019. After that date, if no additional Museum of California, Oakland, CA,
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the requestors have come forward, transfer that meet the definition of unassociated
human remains described in this notice of control of the human remains and funerary objects or objects of cultural
represent the physical remains of two associated funerary objects to The patrimony under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
individuals of Native American Aboriginal Land Tribes may proceed. This notice is published as part of the
ancestry. The Wisconsin Historical Society is National Park Service’s administrative
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), responsible for notifying The Aboriginal responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
the one object described in this notice Land Tribes and The Consulted Tribes U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
is reasonably believed to have been that this notice has been published. this notice are the sole responsibility of
placed with or near individual human the museum, institution, or Federal
Dated: November 7, 2018.
remains at the time of death or later as agency that has control of the Native
part of the death rite or ceremony. Melanie O’Brien, American cultural items. The National
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Park Service is not responsible for the
relationship of shared group identity [FR Doc. 2018–26438 Filed 12–4–18; 8:45 am] determinations in this notice.
cannot be reasonably traced between the BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
Native American human remains History and Description of the Cultural
associated funerary objects and any Items
present-day Indian Tribe. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In the 19th or 20th century, one
• Treaties, Acts of Congress, or cultural item was removed by an
Executive Orders, indicate that the land National Park Service unknown party from an unknown
from which the Native American human [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026950; location in California. Sometime in the
remains were removed is the aboriginal PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 20th century, the object came into the
land of the Assiniboine and Sioux possession of the father of Mr. William
Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural H. Bird, Sr. of Oakland, CA. The
Reservation, Montana; Cheyenne River Items: Oakland Museum of California, circumstances under which Bird’s father
Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Oakland, CA acquired the cultural item are unclear.
Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Creek AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Bird gifted the cultural item to the
Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek ACTION: Notice. Oakland Museum of California on
Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau September 26, 1974, when he
Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; SUMMARY: The Oakland Museum of distributed his father’s collection of
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower California, in consultation with the Native American cultural items to the
Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Lower appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Oakland Museum of California, Merritt
Sioux Indian Community in the State of Hawaiian organizations, has determined College, the Lowie Museum of
Minnesota; Oglala Sioux Tribe that the cultural items listed in this Anthropology (now known as the
(previously listed as the Oglala Sioux notice meet the definition of Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, unassociated funerary objects or objects Anthropology), and the Oakland
khammond on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES
South Dakota); Prairie Island Indian of cultural patrimony. Lineal Museum Women’s Board White
Community in the State of Minnesota; descendants or representatives of any Elephant Sale. The one object of cultural
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian patrimony is a xaa-ts’a’ (mush bowl).
Indian Reservation, South Dakota; organization not identified in this notice The mush bowl (catalog number
Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; that wish to claim these cultural items H74.285.6) was accessioned by the
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux should submit a written request to the Oakland Museum of California in 1974.
Community of Minnesota; Sisseton- Oakland Museum of California. If no The mush bowl is woven from twined
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bear grass with a diamond pattern. It is central to the Native American group or of these human remains should submit
approximately four inches tall and eight culture itself, rather than property a written request to UC Davis. If no
inches in diameter. The mush bowl was owned by an individual. additional requestors come forward,
used by family groups. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there transfer of control of the human remains
The cultural item has been identified is a relationship of shared group to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes,
as Tolowa in archival documents and identity that can be reasonably traced or Native Hawaiian organizations stated
the original gift documentation. between the two cultural items in this notice may proceed.
Consultations from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ described above and the Tolowa Dee-ni’ DATES: Lineal descendants or
Nation (previously listed as the Smith Nation (previously listed as the Smith representatives of any Indian Tribe or
River Rancheria, California) and the River Rancheria, California). Native Hawaiian organization not
Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, identified in this notice that wish to
California have both confirmed the Additional Requestors and Disposition
request transfer of control of these
Tolowa affiliation of this cultural item. Lineal descendants or representatives human remains should submit a written
In the 19th or 20th century, one of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian request with information in support of
cultural item was removed from the organization not identified in this notice the request to UC Davis at the address
mouth of Smith River in Del Norte that wish to claim these cultural items in this notice by January 4, 2019.
County, CA. On November 1, 1949, Mr. should submit a written request with
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA
M. W. Dadey of Oakland, California, information in support of the claim to
donated the item to the Oakland Public Violetta Wolf, Oakland Museum of Project Manager, University of
Museum. The circumstances under California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One
which the cultural item came into the CA 94607, telephone (510) 318–8489, Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
possession of Mr. Dadey are unknown. email vwolf@museumca.org, by January telephone (530) 752–8501, email
In 1965, the collection of the Oakland 4, 2019. After that date, if no additional mnoble@ucdavis.edu.
Public Museum was merged with the claimants have come forward, transfer SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
collections of two other institutions to of control of the unassociated funerary hereby given in accordance with the
create the collection of the Oakland object and the object of cultural Native American Graves Protection and
Museum of California. The one patrimony to the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
unassociated funerary object is a stone (previously listed as the Smith River 3003, of the completion of an inventory
maul. The stone maul (catalog number Rancheria, California) may proceed. of human remains under the control of
H16.4389) is made from basalt or The Oakland Museum of California is the University of California, Davis,
another igneous rock, is six inches long, responsible for notifying the Tolowa Davis, CA. The human remains were
and was made by pecking and grinding. Dee-ni’ Nation (previously listed as the removed from Lake County, CA.
The Tolowa Dee-ni’ (previously listed Smith River Rancheria, California) that This notice is published as part of the
as the Smith River Rancheria, this notice has been published. National Park Service’s administrative
California) are culturally affiliated with responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
Dated: November 7, 2018.
the area from which the cultural item U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
Melanie O’Brien, this notice are the sole responsibility of
was removed. This is supported by
Manager, National NAGPRA Program. the museum, institution, or Federal
archival records and reports, museum
[FR Doc. 2018–26446 Filed 12–4–18; 8:45 am] agency that has control of the Native
records, Department of the Interior
sources, academic sources, and BILLING CODE 4312–52–P American human remains. The National
correspondence with Tolowa Dee-ni’ Park Service is not responsible for the
representatives. Additional archival determinations in this notice.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
sources and correspondence with the Consultation
Tolowa Dee-ni’ (previously listed as the National Park Service
Smith River Rancheria, California) A detailed assessment of the human
describe this cultural item as being [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026943; remains was made by UC Davis
consistent with the known burial PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] professional staff in consultation with
practices of the Tolowa. the Koi Nation of Northern California
Notice of Inventory Completion: (previously listed as the Lower Lake
Determinations Made by the Oakland University of California, Davis, Davis, Rancheria, California). The Big Valley
Museum of California CA Band of Pomo Indians of the Big Valley
Officials of the Oakland Museum of AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Rancheria, California; Cloverdale
California have determined that: ACTION: Notice. Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California;
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of
the one cultural item identified as SUMMARY: The University of California, California; Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo
catalog number H16.4389 and described Davis (UC Davis), has completed an Indians, California (previously listed as
above is reasonably believed to have inventory of human remains housed in the Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo
been placed with or near individual the UC Davis Department of Indians of California); Elem Indian
human remains at the time of death or Anthropology Museum, in consultation Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur
later as part of the death rite or with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Bank Rancheria, California; Federated
ceremony and is believed, by a Native Hawaiian organizations, and has Indians of Graton Rancheria, California;
determined that there is a cultural Guidiville Rancheria of California;
khammond on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site affiliation between the human remains Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake,
of a Native American individual. and present-day Indian Tribes or Native California; Hopland Band of Pomo
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Indians, California (formerly Hopland
the one cultural item identified as descendants or representatives of any Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland
catalog number H74.285.6 and Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Rancheria, California); Kashia Band of
described above has ongoing historical, organization not identified in this notice Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point
traditional, or cultural importance that wish to request transfer of control Rancheria, California; Lytton Rancheria
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