[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 240 (Friday, December 17, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 71661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27357]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033140; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University 
of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles 
(Fowler Museum at UCLA) has completed an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate 
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that 
there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations. 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 the 
Museum. 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 the Museum at the address in this notice by 
January 18, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy Teeter, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 
Box 951549, Los Angeles CA 90095, telephone (310) 825-1864, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Fowler Museum at 
the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from site RIV-156, 
located east of Palm Springs in Riverside 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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Museum 
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Agua 
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian 
Reservation, California.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1955, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from site RIV-156 in Riverside County, CA. During a survey 
in Deep Canyon, east of Palm Springs, Gordon Redfeldt removed human 
remains and cultural materials. In the Spring of 1956, Redfeldt and 
Charles Rozaire donated this collection to the UCLA Archaeology 
Collections. No known individual was identified. The 392 associated 
funerary objects are 368 pieces of pottery (some of which appear to be 
fire affected and two are painted), four ceramic disc fragments, one 
hammerstone, two core tools, six scrapers, one projectile point tip, 
one unmodified burned carnivore mandible fragment, one unmodified 
burned deer metapodial, and eight unmodified burned faunal bone 
fragments.

Determinations Made by the Fowler Museum at the University of 
California, Los Angeles

    Officials of the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los 
Angeles have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 392 objects 
described in this notice 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.
     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 Agua 
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian 
Reservation, California.

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 Wendy Teeter, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 
951549, Los Angeles, CA 90095, telephone (310) 825-1864, email 
[email protected], by January 18, 2022. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Agua Caliente Band 
of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California 
may proceed.
    The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles is 
responsible for notifying the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of 
the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: December 10, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2021-27357 Filed 12-16-21; 8:45 am]
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