[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60650-60651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22827]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item: Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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. 3005, of the intent 
to repatriate a cultural item in the possession of the Arizona State 
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, that meets the definition of 
``unassociated funerary object'' under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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 cultural 
items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice.
    The one cultural item is an abalone shell pendant.
    During the 1920s, the cultural item was removed from a cemetery 
area at site C-144 in Mason Valley, San Diego County, CA, during 
legally authorized excavations conducted by Malcolm Rogers of the San 
Diego Museum of

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Man. The item had previously been removed from its context and cannot 
be associated with any specific set of human remains. In 1934, the 
cultural item was sent to the Gila Pueblo Foundation as part of an 
exchange. In December 1950, the Gila Pueblo Foundation donated the item 
to the Arizona State Museum.
    Based on the mortuary pattern and associated ceramic materials, 
types of projectile points, and types of shell beads, the cultural item 
has been dated to the late Prehistoric period to the Historic period 
(circa A.D. 750-1870). Continuities of material culture and 
technologies provide a clear continuum for native cultures in this area 
from the late precontact period into the time of European contact. 
Historic documents from the Spanish expeditions refer to Diegueno and 
Kumeyaay peoples living throughout 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 
to the Kumeyaay Indians.
    Officials of the Arizona State Museum have determined that, 
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the cultural item is 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 is 
believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from 
a specific burial site of an Native American individual. Officials of 
the Arizona State Museum also 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 unassociated funerary object and 
the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the 
Barona Reservation, California; Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians 
of the Campo Indian Reservation, 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 La Posta 
Indian Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; 
San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Santa 
Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel 
Reservation, 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 the unassociated funerary object should 
contact John Madsen, Repatriation Coordinator, Arizona State Museum, 
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 621-4795, 
before November 12, 2004. Repatriation of the unassociated funerary 
object to the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee on behalf of the 
Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona 
Reservation, California; Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Campo Indian Reservation, 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 La Posta 
Indian Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; 
San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Santa 
Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel 
Reservation, 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 may proceed after 
that date if no additional claimants come forward.
    The Arizona State Museum 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 the 
Campo Indian Reservation, 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 La Posta 
Indian Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; 
San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Santa 
Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel 
Reservation, 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 that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: August 19, 2004
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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