[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 19 (Thursday, January 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4315-4316]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1883]


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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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