FR Doc E8-20095[Federal Register: August 29, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 169)]
[Notices]
[Page 50995-50996]
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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 of 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 Tehama
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 in 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 in this notice.
An assessment of documents associated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects was made by professional staff of the
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in consultation with
representatives of the Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki
Indians of California; Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California;
and Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation,
California.
Between 1953 and 1955, human remains representing a minimum of 100
individuals were removed from CA-Teh-58, a site located on the
northwest bank of the Sacramento River approximately 2.25 miles east of
Red Bluff, Tehama County, CA. The human remains and associated funerary
objects were accessioned into the museum in 1953 and 1955 (Accessions
UCAS-246 and UCAS-337). No known individuals were identified. The 2,912
associated funerary objects are 18 animal bone and fragments, 6 abalone
fragments, 8 abraders, 19 acorns, 1 arrow point, 1 arrow shaft
straightener, 7 awls, 1 bar,
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1,806 beads, 1 bird burial, 5 blades, 10 can fragments, 9 choppers, 2
claws, 6 concretions, 1 piece of cordage, 2 cores, 1 cup, 1 cylinder, 9
dices, 1 disc, 5 drills, 2 fishhooks, 187 obsidian and chert flakes, 1
iron guide, 5 knives, 2 manos, the remains of 1 "meal," 1 metate, 1
iron nail, 14 flint and obsidian nodules, 5 pebbles, 1 pencil, 11
pendants, 27 pestles, 7 lumps of pigment, 1 pipe, 62 points, 41
projectile points, 11 scrapers, 568 shells and shell fragments
(approximate count), 8 shoe fragments, 12 shroud fragments, 1 skirt, 9
slabs, 6 stones, 3 animal teeth, 4 twine fragments, and 1 whistle.
Site CA-Teh-58 is a burial mound, associated with at least one
permanent village site. The University of California Archaeological
Survey started its excavation in 1953. Although, in 1948, the land was
privately owned, the National Park Service provided the permit and the
project funding under the River Basin Survey program. The historic age
of the site is confirmed by the presence of glass beads and other
metallic objects that are associated with some of the burials. Site CA-
Teh-58 lies entirely within the Nomlaki aboriginal territory whose
northern border extends to Cottonwood Creek almost 10 miles to the
north of the site. Descendants of the Nomlaki are members of the
Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California;
Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round Valley Indian
Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, 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 100 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(3)(A), the 2,912 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 Grindstone Indian
Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California; Paskenta Band of
Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round Valley Indian Tribes of the
Round Valley Reservation, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Judd King, Interim Director of the Phoebe A.
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 642-3682, before September 29,
2008. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
to the Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of
California; Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round
Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, California may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is responsible for
notifying the Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of
California; Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round
Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, California that
this notice has been published.
Dated: July 28, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-20095 Filed 8-28-08; 8:45 am]
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