[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 200 (Monday, October 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56219-56221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27125]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the Possession 
of the San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
cultural items in the possession of the San Diego Museum of Man which 
meet the definition of ``unassociated funerary object'' under Section 2 
of the Act.
    The 60 cultural items consist of a plummet stone, pendants, 
projectile points, sherds, and beads.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were removed from burials at 
site C-16, East Blake Sea, eastern Imperial County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcom Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The 311 cultural items consist of an awl, a necklace, a pendant, 
beads, and sherds.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were removed from burials at 
site C-19, East Blake Sea, eastern Imperial County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcom Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The six cultural items consist of a bead and projectile points.
    During the 1930s, these cultural item were removed from burials at 
site C-92, East Blake Sea, eastern Imperial County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcom Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The five cultural items consist of a medicine slab, conus tinklers, 
a pendant, and a doll's eye.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were removed from burials at 
site C-144, a general area at Mason Valley, San Diego County, CA during 
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authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The 259 cultural items consist of cook pots, jars, bowls, clay 
billets, pipes, shells, projectile points, an iron knife blade, a brass 
button, arrow straighteners, digging weights, animal bones, glass 
beads, shell beads, a basket fragment, shell buttons, and pendants.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were removed from burials at 
site C-144 Cemetery A at Mason Valley, San Diego County, CA during 
legally authorized excavations by Malcolm Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The 503 cultural items consist of a scoop, a bowl, bones, glass 
beads, sherds, shell beads, lithic flakes, cook pots, fibers, metal 
fragments, and pestles.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site C-144 Cemetery C at Mason Valley, San Diego County, CA during 
legally authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San 
Diego Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural 
items were not collected.
    The 52 cultural items consist of sherds, a glass jar neck, a metal 
pull, canteens, shell beads, a pestle, ollas, a cup, bowls, a rabbit 
net fragment, a bone pendant, a sherd disc, jars, a mano, an arrow 
straightener, anvils, and a brass button.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site C-151, McCain Valley, San Diego County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The 101 cultural items consist of basket fragments, lithic flakes, 
beads, sherds, a brass button, a ceramic disk, shell beads, shell, and 
projectile points.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site C-164, Vallecito Wash, east-central San Diego County, CA during 
legally authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San 
Diego Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural 
items were not collected.
    The 32 cultural items consist of a brass button, a jar, bowls, a 
canteen, discs, pendants, shell, projectile points, anvils, a rabbit 
net, a glass bead, an olla, a mano, sherds, and pestles.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site C-165, Vallecitos, San Diego County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers. The human remains 
interred with these cultural items were not collected.
    The four cultural items are pottery jars.
    Between 1929-1968, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site C-651, Earthquake Valley, San Diego County, CA by Carl 
Harkleroad. The human remains interred with these cultural items were 
not collected.
    The 11 cultural items consist of canteens, a sherd, an arrow 
straightener, a blade, a cobble tool, lithic flake tool fragments, and 
an abalone shell.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site W-205, Cottonwood Valley, San Diego County, CA by Malcolm 
Rogers of the San Diego Museum of Man. The human remains interred with 
these cultural items were not collected.
    The 43 cultural items consist of a pot, a bowl, arrowshaft 
straighteners, scrapers, bone fragments, sherds, projectile points, 
flaked stone, and flaking hammers.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site W-206, Santa Maria Valley, San Diego County, CA by Malcolm 
Rogers of the San Diego Museum of Man. The human remains interred with 
these cultural items were not collected.
    The one associated funerary object is a point fragment.
    During the 1930s, this cultural item was recovered from a burial at 
site W-245, Dulzura, San Diego County, CA during legally authorized 
excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San Diego Museum of Man. 
The human remains interred with these cultural items were not 
collected.
    The ten associated funerary objects consist of a metate, shell 
pendants, projectile points, a sherd, and a bone pendant.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site W-254, Cemetery A, Laguna Mountain, San Diego County, CA during 
legally authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San 
Diego Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural 
items were not collected.
    The 104 cultural items consist of urns, projectile points, and 
sherds.
    During the 1930s, these cultural items were recovered from burials 
at site W-262, Cuyamaca Peak, San Diego County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with these cultural items 
were not collected.
    The 38 cultural items are stones.
    During 1950-1951, these cultural items were recovered from a burial 
at site W-330, Poway, San Diego County, CA during legally authorized 
excavations conducted by Clark Evernham of the San Diego Museum of Man. 
The human remains interred with these cultural items were not 
collected.
    The one cultural item is a cremation urn.
    During the 1930s, this cultural item was recovered from a burial at 
site at Olive Springs, Ramona, San Diego County, CA during legally 
authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San Diego 
Museum of Man. The human remains interred with this cultural item were 
not collected.
    Based on ceramic material, types of projectile points, and types of 
shell beads, these cultural items have been dated to the late 
prehistoric period, c. 750 A.D. to the 19th century. Continuities of 
material culture and technologies provide a clear continuum for native 
cultures in this area from this late precontact period into the time of 
European contact. Historic documents from the Spanish expeditions 
document Diegueno and Kumeyaay peoples through this area. Consultation 
information provided by the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee 
supports the recognition of this area of San Diego County as an 
ancestral homeland.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the San 
Diego Museum of Man have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 
(d)(2)(ii), these 1,509 cultural items 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 and are believed, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific 
burial site of an Native American individual. Officials of the San 
Diego Museum of Man have also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 
(e), there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be 
reasonably traced between these items and the Campo Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, the Capitan Grande 
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California, the Barona Group of 
Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, the 
Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of 
the Viejas Reservation, the Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, the Jamul Indian Village of 
California, the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La 
Posta Indian Reservation, the Manzanita

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Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, the Mesa 
Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, 
the San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California, the 
Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel 
Reservation, the Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California, 
and the Cuyapaipe Community of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Cuyapaipe Reservation.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Kumeyaay Cultural 
Repatriation Committee, the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
the Campo Indian Reservation, the Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of California, the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band 
of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, the Viejas (Baron Long) 
Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas 
Reservation, the Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja 
and Cosmit Reservation, the Jamul Indian Village of California, the La 
Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian 
Reservation, the Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Manzanita Reservation, the Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians 
of the Mesa Grande Reservation, the San Pasqual Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of California, the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel Reservation, the Sycuan Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of California, and the Cuyapaipe Community of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Cuyapaipe Reservation. Representatives 
of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally 
affiliated with these objects should contact Ken Hedges, Curator of 
California Collections, San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, San 
Diego, CA 92101; telephone: (619) 239-2001 before November 17, 1999. 
Repatriation of these objects to the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation 
Committee on behalf of the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
the Campo Indian Reservation, the Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of California, the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band 
of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, the Viejas (Baron Long) 
Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas 
Reservation, the Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja 
and Cosmit Reservation, the Jamul Indian Village of California, the La 
Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian 
Reservation, the Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Manzanita Reservation, the Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians 
of the Mesa Grande Reservation, the San Pasqual Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of California, the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel Reservation, the Sycuan Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of California, and the Cuyapaipe Community of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Cuyapaipe Reservation may begin after 
that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: October 4, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Manager, Archeology and 
Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-27125 Filed 10-15-99; 8:45 am]
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