[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 23 (Monday, February 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1487-1488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00835]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027117; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Diego Museum 
of Man, San Diego, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The San Diego Museum of Man, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has 
determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary objects and sacred objects. Lineal 
descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these 
cultural items should submit a written request to the San Diego Museum 
of Man. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of 
the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native 
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to the San Diego Museum of Man at 
the address in this notice by March 6, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Ben Garcia, San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa 
Park, San Diego, CA 32101, telephone (619) 239 -2001 ext.17, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 cultural items under the 
control of the San Diego Museum of Man that meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects and sacred objects 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 Native 
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    At an unknown date, sometime between the years of the 1920's and 
1950's, 1,506 cultural items were removed from site CA-SDI-5017, also 
referred to as W-150, in the area of Rose Canyon in Pacific Beach, San 
Diego County, CA. Malcolm Rogers excavated these items on behalf of the 
San Diego Museum of Man for the purpose of archeological 
reconnaissance. Artifacts were also collected by a property owner Mr. 
Carroll D. Scott and were later donated to the San Diego Museum of Man 
on March 15, 1956. Human remains were believed to be associated with 
this site. Per consultation with Kumeyaay Nation representatives, human 
remains were subsequently discovered on a date after the 1950's. The 
1,504 unassociated funerary items are: 46 modified faunal bone, 78 
unmodified faunal bone, nine ceramic--other, one mixed decorated 
ceramic sherd, one rim decorated ceramic sherd, 410 undecorated body 
ceramic sherds, 14 undecorated rim sherds, 34 stone bifaces, eight 
choppers, three chipped stone cores, six chipped stone core tools, two 
chipped stone other, 348 projectile points, 26 chipped stone scrapers, 
138 unworked flakes, four utilized flakes, 21 manos, one metate, two 
mortars, 71 groundstone--other, one pestle, 29 shaft straighteners, two 
historic ceramic pieces, 17 ecofacts, 128 modified shell, 79 unmodified 
shell (including 10 lots), four soil midden samples, 17 battered stone, 
and four stone--other.
    At an unknown date, sometime between the years of the 1920's and 
1950's, three sacred objects were removed from site CA-SDI-5017, also 
referred to as W-150, in the area of Rose Canyon in Pacific Beach, San 
Diego County, CA. Malcolm Rogers excavated these sacred objects on 
behalf of the San Diego Museum of Man for the purpose of archeological 
reconnaissance. Per consultation with the Kumeyaay Nation 
representatives, it was determined that these sacred objects are 
specifically used for traditional Kumeyaay religious ceremonies. Based 
upon consultation, these items meet the definition and criteria of 
sacred objects. The three sacred objects are two groundstone pestles 
and one ecofact.
    At an unknown date, sometime between the years of the 1920's and 
1950's, 63 cultural items were removed from site CA-SDI-11,767, also 
referred to as W-175, in the area of Mission Valley, San Diego County 
CA. Malcolm Rogers excavated these items on behalf of the San Diego 
Museum of Man for the purpose of archeological reconnaissance. Human 
remains were believed to be associated with this site. An updated 
report dated 10/5/1995 indicated an excavation and reburial of human 
remains beneath a rock cairn. The 63 unassociated funerary items are: 
Five chipped stone choppers, 17 chipped stone scrappers, two 
groundstone mono, six battered stones, five ecofacts, three chipped 
stone cores, one groundsone-other, seven chipped stone-unworked flakes, 
one chipped stone biface, five undecorated body ceramic sherds, 10 
shell-unmodified, and one shell-modified.
    Sites CA-SDI-5017 and CA-SDI-11,767 are all located within 
territory traditionally occupied by the Kumeyaay Nation as represented 
by The Tribes. Based on cultural resources collection research, 
geographic location, ethnographic information, oral history evidence 
and consultation with the Tribes these items have been culturally 
affiliated as Kumeyaay.

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Determinations Made by the San Diego Museum of Man

    Officials of the San Diego Museum of Man have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 1,567 cultural items 
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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), three cultural items 
described above are specific ceremonial objects needed by traditional 
Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional 
Native American religions by their present-day adherents.
     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 objects, sacred objects and The Kumeyaay Nation, 
as represented by the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Campo Indian Reservation, California; Capitan Grande Band of Mission 
Indians of California (Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission 
Indians of the Barona Reservation, California; Viejas (Baron Long) 
Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas 
Reservation, California); Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, 
California; Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, California (previously listed 
as the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa 
Ysabel Reservation); Inaja Band of Diegueno 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; and the Sycuan Band of 
the Kumeyaay Nation, hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes.''

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Ben Garcia, San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El 
Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 32101, telephone (619) 239 -2001 
ext.17, email [email protected], by March 6, 2019. After that 
date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control 
of the unassociated funerary objects and sacred objects to The Kumeyaay 
Nation, as represented by The Tribes, may proceed.
    The San Diego Museum of Man is responsible for notifying The Tribes 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: December 4, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-00835 Filed 2-1-19; 8:45 am]
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