FR Doc 04-1883
[Federal Register: January 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 19)]
[Notices]
[Page 4315-4316]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Diego Museum of Man, San
Diego, CA, and California Department of Parks and Recreation,
Sacramento, 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 San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego,
CA, and in the control of the California Department of Parks and
Recreation, Sacramento, CA. The human remains and cultural items were
removed from Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, Descanso, San Diego 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.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the San
Diego Museum of Man and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation professional staff in consultation with the Kumeyaay
Cultural Repatriation Committee, authorized representative of the
Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona
Reservation, California; Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California; Inaja
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation,
California; Jamul Indian Village of California; La Posta Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California;
Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of California; San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; and
Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of
the Viejas Reservation, California. The San Diego Museum of Man and the
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California Department of Parks and Recreation also consulted with
Kwaaymii elder Carmen Lucas.
In the 1930s, Malcolm Rogers and fellow associates of the San Diego
Museum of Man conducted excavations at several sites in Cuyamaca Rancho
State Park, Descanso, San Diego County, CA. Unassociated funerary
objects removed from the park are described in a companion notice.
Human remains representing a minimum of two individuals were
removed from cremation site SDM-W-211, West Mesa. No known individuals
were identified. The 19 associated funerary objects are 1 bead, 12
projectile points, 2 ollas, 1 pipe, 1 abalone pendant, 1 cook pot, and
1 container of groundstone fragments.
Human remains representing a minimum of seven individuals were
removed from site SDM-W-247 between Cuyamaca Lake and Stonewall Peak
near today's Los Caballos Campground. No known individuals were
identified. The 444 associated funerary objects are 11 projectile
points, 2 spear points, a minimum of 347 loose sherds, 1 bag of
uncounted sherds, 1 box of uncounted sherds, 1 unidentified
groundstone, 1 groundstone fragment, 2 rock fragments, 1 scraper, 2
lithic flakes, 17 pieces of charcoal and chalkstone, 1 bag of red
ochre, 1 piece white marl, 2 fragments of arrow straightener, 4 bone
pendants, 1 bone flaker, 2 burned shell fragments, 11 bone fragments, 5
bead waste fragments, 2 awls, 1 bone tool fragment, 4 rocks, 1 piece of
white ochre, 2 olivella bead fragments, 4 cremation urns (1 broken into
72 pieces), 1 burned wood fragment, 1 crab claw fragment, 6 animal
teeth, and 9 animal bones.
Human remains representing a minimum of 15 individuals were removed
from site SDM-W-263 near today's Paso Picacho Campground. No known
individuals were identified. The 2,068 associated funerary objects are
11 cremation urns and cremation covers, a minimum of 1,048 olivella
beads, 1 olivella disc, 2 fish vertebrae beads, 17 shell fragments, a
minimum of 544 sherds, 9 fish vertebrae, 1 rock spall, 19 pieces of
animal bone, 3 pieces of fired clay, 25 pieces of charcoal and earth
fragments, 2 bags of charcoal and earth fragments, 1 tarring pebble, 1
bone pipe, 2 bone awls, 2 ceramic bases, 16 samples of bead waste, 4
flakes, 3 rocks, 2 dome scrapers, 15 ochre fragments, 3 ceramic
pendants, 1 knife, 2 seeds, 52 projectile points, 1 glass tool
fragment, 2 textile fragments, 1 pine cone spine, 1 quartz tool
fragment, a minimum of 221 glass and 27 shell beads, 6 biface
fragments, 2 arrow straightener fragments, 14 burned earth clumps, 1
piece of serpentine, 1 polished stone, and 5 stone fragments.
The human remains and associated funerary objects removed by
Malcolm Rogers and his associates date from the Late Prehistoric to the
Historic period, (A.D. 500 to A.D. 1800). Archeological investigation
in the western San Diego County area dates the Kumeyaay (Diegueno)
occupation of the region to the Late Prehistoric period. Geographic
affiliation is consistent with historically documented Kumeyaay
territory. Therefore, the California Department of Parks and Recreation
Committee on Repatriation has determined that there is a relationship
of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and
present-day Federally recognized Kumeyaay Indian tribes represented by
the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee.
Officials of the California Department of Parks and Recreation have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of 24 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the California Department of
Parks and Recreation also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the 2,531 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 California Department of Parks and Recreation 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 Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians
of the Barona Reservation, California; Campo Band of Diegueno Mission
Indians of California; Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians,
California; Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and
Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village of California; La
Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation,
California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of California; San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; and
Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of
the Viejas Reservation, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with these human remains and associated
funerary objects should contact Paulette Hennum, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Cultural Resources Division, California Department of Parks and
Recreation, 1416 9th Street, Room 902, Sacramento, CA 95814, telephone
(916) 653-7976, before March 1, 2004. Repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects to the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation
Committee may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The California Department of Parks and Recreation is responsible
for notifying the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission
Indians of the Barona Reservation, California; Campo Band of Diegueno
Mission Indians of California; Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians,
California; Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and
Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village of California; La
Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation,
California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of California; San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California;
Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of
the Viejas Reservation, California; Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation
Committee; and Kwaaymii elder Carmen Lucas that this notice has been
published.
Dated: December 16, 2003.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
[FR Doc. 04-1883 Filed 1-28-04; 8:45 am]
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