[Federal Register: July 18, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 138)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 possession of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from six
sites in Kern 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).
The determinations within 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 within
this notice.
An assessment of the human remains, and catalog records and
associated documents relevant to the human remains, was made by Phoebe
A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California; Table Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian
Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of
Me-Wuk Rancheria of California.
In 1922, human remains representing at least 26 individuals were
removed from burials at site CA-Ker-37, a mound site located on the
shoreline of former Goose Lake, Kern County, CA, by A. Steinberger of
McFarland, CA. The human remains were donated to the Phoebe A. Hearst
Museum of Anthropology in the same year. No known individuals were
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
In 1924, human remains representing at least 16 individuals were
removed from burials at site CA-Ker-37, Kern County, CA, by E.W.
Gifford, and donated to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in
the same year. No known individuals were identified. The 117 associated
funerary objects are 6 textile bag fragments and 111 olivella and clam
shell beads.
Characteristics of the associated funerary objects and nonfunerary
objects removed from site CA-Ker-37 indicate that the burials date to
the Protohistoric period, the 200-year period prior to European contact
in the mid-1700s, and to the Historic period.
In 1932, human remains representing at least five individuals, were
removed from burials at site CA-Ker-39, a mound site located on the
shoreline of former Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA, by Mr. and Mrs.
W.D. Strong and W.R. Wedel, and were donated to the Phoebe A. Hearst
Museum of Anthropology by W.R. Wedel in the same year. Two of the
individuals are represented by hair. No known individuals were
identified. The six associated funerary objects are one textile
fragment and five shell beads.
Characteristics of the associated funerary objects and nonfunerary
objects removed from site CA-Ker-39 indicate that the burials date to
the Protohistoric period, the 200-year period prior to European contact
in the mid-1700s.
In 1933, human remains representing one individual were removed
from a burial at site CA-Ker-40, a mound site located on the shoreline
of former Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA, by W.D. Strong, and were
donated to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in the same
year. No known individual was identified. The human remains consist of
hair adhering to the single associated funerary object, a fragment of
brown cloth.
In 1948, human remains representing one individual were removed
from a burial at site CA-Ker-40, Kern County, CA, by H.S. Riddell and
F.A. Riddell, and were donated to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology in the same year. No known individuals were identified.
The two associated funerary objects are stones.
Characteristics of the nonfunerary objects removed from site CA-
Ker-40 indicate that the burials date to the Protohistoric period, the
200-year period prior to European contact in the mid-1700s.
In 1924, human remains representing at least four individuals were
removed
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from burials at site CA-Ker-50, a burial site in Elk Hills, near the
shoreline of former Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA, by W.D. Strong,
who donated these human remains to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology in the same year. No known individuals were identified.
The 51 associated funerary objects are fragments of the matting in
which the human remains were wrapped at the time of burial, 1 lot of
pinkish powder, 2 abalone ornaments, 33 shell beads, 4 bone tubes, 7
projectile points, and 3 projectile point fragments.
Characteristics of the associated funerary objects and nonfunerary
objects removed from site CA-Ker-50 indicate that this burial site was
in use during the Protohistoric period, the 200-year period immediately
prior to European contact in the mid-1700s.
In 1899, human remains representing at least nine individuals were
removed from burials at site CA-Ker-53, a habitation and burial site
near Buttonwillow, Kern County, CA, by P.M. Jones, who donated the
human remains to the Museum of Paleontology, University of California,
Berkeley in the same year. Some time prior to 1902, the Museum of
Paleontology transferred the human remains to the Phoebe A. Hearst
Museum of Anthropology. No known individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
Characteristics of other objects removed from site CA-Ker-53
indicate that this settlement was inhabited during the Protohistoric
period, the 200-year period immediately prior to European contact in
the mid-1700s.
In 1949, human remains representing at least 15 individuals were
removed from burials at site CA-Ker-74, located on high ground a few
miles southeast of the former shoreline of Tulare Lake, Kern County,
CA, by members of the California Archaeological Survey, and were
donated to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in the same
year. No known individuals were identified. The 49 associated funerary
objects are 35 shell beads, 12 glass beads, and 2 abalone pendants.
Characteristics of the associated funerary objects of Euroamerican
origin indicate that the settlement was inhabited between approximately
1810 and 1860.
The burial contexts identify the human remains removed from sites
in Kern County, CA, as being Native American. Linguistic evidence
indicates that this region of California was inhabited by Native
American Yokuts speakers. Archeological research suggests that these
burial and habitation sites date to a relatively late time period.
Consultation with present-day Yokuts groups documents an oral history
of continued habitation of an area encompassing Kern County, CA, that
includes the Protohistoric and Historic periods. Historical sources
corroborate oral history. Modern descendants of Yokuts speakers are the
Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Table
Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Rancheria of
California.
Officials of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of at least 77
individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the Phoebe A.
Hearst Museum of Anthropology also have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 226 objects 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.
Lastly, officials of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the
Tule River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk
Rancheria of California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact C. Richard Hitchcock, NAGPRA Coordinator, Phoebe
A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 642-6096, before August 18, 2003.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Table
Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Rancheria of
California may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is responsible for
notifying the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the
Tule River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk
Rancheria of California that this notice has been published.
Dated: June 12, 2003.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
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