[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 245 (Friday, December 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70208-70209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27489]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0029400; 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. 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 January 21, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Kara Vetter, Director of Cultural Resources, San Diego 
Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park San Diego, CA 92101, 
telephone (619) 239-2001 Ext. 44, 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, San Diego, CA, that meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary 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 Item(s)

    Sometime in 1929, 27 cultural items were removed from site W-199 in 
San Diego County, CA. Malcolm J. Rogers conducted excavations on behalf 
of the San Diego Museum of Man in the vicinity of La Jolla, along El 
Paseo Grande during which a burial site containing the remains of one 
individual was investigated. The 27 unassociated funerary objects are: 
13 chipped stone unworked flakes, three chipped stone core tools, two 
chipped stone cores, one chipped stone utilized flake, one chipped 
stone scraper, two chipped stone choppers, one unmodified shell, three 
soil samples, and one volcanic cobble. The human remains are not in the 
control of the San Diego Museum of Man.
    Sometime in the 1930's and 1960's, 239 cultural items were removed 
from sites CA-SDI-5623 or W-202 and W-202A in San Diego County, CA, in 
the vicinity of Descanso Valley. Excavations conducted on two separate 
occasions by Malcolm J. Rogers, on behalf of the Museum of Man and Mrs. 
Dorothy McKenna, an independent relic hunter, documented the presence 
of two cremations. The cremains are currently in the control of 
McKenna. The 239 unassociated funerary objects are: Six unmodified 
faunal bone, seven ceramic decorated body sherds, 58 ceramic 
undecorated body sherd, three ceramic decorated rim sherds, 41 ceramic 
undecorated rim sherds, 13 ceramic other, six chipped stone biface, two 
chipped stone core, two chipped stone core tools, one chipped stone 
other, 58 chipped stone projectile points, five chipped stone scrapers, 
17 chipped stone unworked flakes, one chipped stone utilized flake, 
three ecofact, five manos, two groundstone shaft straightener, three 
groundstone other, three modified shells, one unmodified shell, one 
battered stone, and one historic metal.
    Sometime between 1933 and 1950, 95 cultural items were removed from 
sites CA-SDI-5 or W-207 and W-207A in San Diego County, CA, by Malcolm 
J. Rogers during excavations on behalf of the San Diego Museum of Man, 
in the vicinity of the San Pasqual State Monument Park. Rogers's field 
notes indicate that these sites comprised a cinerary urn cemetery that 
had been initially discovered by land-leasers in 1913. The 95 
unassociated funerary objects are: 32 ceramic undecorated body sherds, 
11 ceramic undecorated rim sherds, three chipped stone biface, one 
chipped stone chopper, one chipped stone core, one chipped stone core 
tool, eight chipped stone projectile points, two chipped stone unworked 
flake, two chipped stone utilized flake, six manos, one modified shell, 
two battered stone, 23 historical ceramic, and two historical glass. 
The human remains are not in the control of the San Diego Museum of 
Man.
    Sites W-199, CA-SDI-5623 or (W-202 and W-202A) and CA-SDI-5 or (W-
207 and W-207A) are all located within territory traditionally occupied 
by the Kumeyaay Nation, which is represented by the below listed Indian 
Tribes. Based on cultural resources collection research, geographic 
location, ethnographic information, oral history evidence and 
consultation, these unassociated funerary objects are identified as 
Kumeyaay.

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), the 361 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(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary objects and the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, California; Capitan Grande 
Band of Diegueno 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

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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 Kara Vetter, Director of Cultural Resources, 
San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park San Diego, CA 
92101, telephone (619) 239-2001 Ext. 44, email [email protected], 
by January 21, 2020. After that date, if no additional claimants have 
come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects 
to The Tribes may proceed.
    The San Diego Museum of Man is responsible for notifying The Tribes 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: November 26, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-27489 Filed 12-19-19; 8:45 am]
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