[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 162 (Thursday, August 20, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51489-51490]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18231]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030625; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology Museum 
at the University of California, Davis, Davis, CA: Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has corrected 
an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on August 13, 2008. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals and number of associated funerary objects. Lineal 
descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to UC Davis. If no additional 
requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects 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 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to UC Davis at the address in this notice by 
September 21, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of 
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 
telephone (530) 752-8501, 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. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the University of 
California, Davis, Davis, CA. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were removed from Colusa 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 in 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 in this notice.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (73 FR 47228-47229, August 13, 
2008). Additional human remains were newly identified after review of 
faunal collections. In addition, human remains from this site 
previously identified as culturally unidentifiable were re-evaluated in 
consultation and determined to be culturally affiliated. Based on 
consultation and review of the original field records, associated 
funerary objects were added. Transfer of control of the items in this 
correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (73 FR 47228, August 13, 2008) column two, 
paragraph four, sentence one is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In 1973, human remains representing a minimum of 12 individuals 
were removed from Miller Mound (CA-COL-1), Colusa County, CA by the 
University of California, Davis archeological field school.

    In the Federal Register (73 FR 47228, August 13, 2008) column two, 
paragraph four, sentence three is corrected by substituting the 
following sentences:

    The 40,272 associated funerary objects (contained in 733 lots) 
are approximately 5,422 beads (in 77 lots) of clamshell disc beads 
and other shell beads, approximately 34,368 beads (in 174 lots) of 
historic beads (some lots include clamshell disc beads, which are 
counted within these historic lots), 170 abalone pendants, 33 
Olivella beads, one piece of worked shell, two bone beads, two 
magnesite cylinders, one stone pendant, five stone discs, 44 bone 
awls, five bone or antler flakers, two bone harpoons, one bone 
needle, one bone spatulate, five pieces of miscellaneous worked 
bone, 30 projectile points, one chert drill, 32 pieces of chip stone 
(including bifaces, flakes, and debitage), six ground stone and 
ground stone fragments, seven buttons, 44 historic coins (three of 
which include attached clamshell beads not included in the clamshell 
count), one piece of historic glass, three historic nails, 24 metal 
fragments (including a crushed metal pot), one leather bag or hat, 
eight textile and textile/bead fragments, one ceramic fragment, 
three fire-cracked rock fragments, one lot of ochre, seven lots of 
unmodified shell, 32 lots of animal bone fragments, two pieces of 
charcoal, and seven lots of seeds. (Two clamshell disc beads, three 
lots of historic beads (174 beads), two abalone pendants, two 
Olivella beads, one bone awl, four bone or antler flakers, two 
projectile points, one chip stone object, and one lot of animal bone 
fragments are currently missing.)

    In the Federal Register (73, FR 47228, August 13, 2008) column 
three, paragraph one is corrected by substituting the following 
paragraph:

    Based on burial context and site characteristics, the human 
remains described above from the Miller Mound site are determined to 
be Native American. The Miller Mound site was documented as a 
historic village site inhabited by River Patwin. The antiquity of 
the site as a whole may range between the Middle Period to the 
Historic (200 B.C.-A.D. 1872). The burials described in this Notice 
are determined to have originated from the Protohistoric (Phase 2 of 
the Late Period) and Historic periods. Geographical, historical, 
archeological, anthropological, linguistic and biological evidence 
suggest continuity of populations between Late and Historic periods 
(Golla 2011, Johnson 1978, Kroeber 1925, 1978,

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Moratto 1984, Newman 1957). The human remains and associated 
funerary objects described above are reasonably believed to be 
culturally affiliated with Patwin tribes.

    In the Federal Register (73, FR 47228, August 13, 2008) column 
three, paragraph two, sentence one is corrected by substituting the 
following sentence:

    In 1969 and 1971, human remains representing a minimum of 
sixteen individuals were removed from CA-COL-11, Colusa County, CA 
by two University of California, Davis archeological field schools.

    In the Federal Register (73, FR 47228, August 13, 2008) column 
three, paragraph two, sentence four is corrected by substituting the 
following sentences:

    The 502 individual and lots of associated funerary objects are 
five bird bone tubes, eight bone awls, two flake tools, 27 lots of 
debitage and flakes, 142 lots of clamshell beads (includes bead 
blanks and refuse), one clay fragment, six glass beads, one 
groundstone tablet, six Haliotis pendants or ornaments, five 
historic beads, two incised bird bones, three lots of freshwater 
shell, 10 lots of non-human bone, 19 lots of ochre, one point blank, 
six projectile points, one utilized flake, 120 Olivella beads, three 
pestles, two quartz crystals, one worked sandstone, one lot of 
sediment described as ``grave fill'', three seeds, one shell bead, 
one steatite bead, 18 unmodified shell fragments, 61 lots of worked 
bone, one lot of charcoal described as ``Burial-wood for dating'', 
one broken mortar (in two pieces), 17 lots of pinenuts and pinenut 
hulls, 24 lots of wood, and three lots of soil. (12 lots of 
clamshell beads, one glass bead, one Haliotis ornament, one lot of 
ochre, three projectile points, 12 Olivella beads, three lots of 
worked bone, and one lot of pinenuts are currently missing.)

    In the Federal Register (73, FR 47229, August 13, 2008) column one, 
paragraph three, sentence one is corrected by substituting the 
following sentence:

    Officials of the Department of Anthropology Museum at the 
University of California, Davis have determined that, pursuant to 25 
U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above represent the 
physical remains of 32 individuals of Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (73, FR 47229, August 13, 2008) column one, 
paragraph three, sentence two is corrected by substituting the 
following sentence:

    Officials of the Department of Anthropology Museum at the 
University of California, Davis also have determined that, pursuant 
to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 40,817 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.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, 
University of California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, 
Davis, CA 95616, telephone (530) 752-8501, email [email protected], by 
September 21, 2020. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the 
Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria, California; Kletsel 
Dehe Band of Wintun Indians (previously listed as Cortina Indian 
Rancheria and the Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of 
California); and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, California (previously 
listed as Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California), 
hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'' may proceed.
    The University of California, Davis is responsible for notifying 
The Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 13, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-18231 Filed 8-19-20; 8:45 am]
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