[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77886-77887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27526]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035041; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Museum of Us, San 
Diego, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Museum of Us (formerly the San Diego 
Museum of Man) has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published 
in the Federal Register on May 3, 2019. This notice amends the minimum 
number of individuals and the number of associated funerary objects 
listed in the previous notice, as well as their cultural affiliation in 
a collection removed from San Diego County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after January 19, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carmen Mosley, NAGPRA Repatriation 
Manager, Museum of Us, 1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101, 
telephone (619) 239-2001 Ext. 42, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
Museum of Us. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the amendments 
and determinations in this notice, including the results of 
consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records held by 
the Museum of Us.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (84 FR 19109-19111, May 3, 
2019). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Inventory 
Completion has not occurred. This notice amends the counts of the 
minimum number of individuals and number of associated funerary 
objects, and the cultural affiliation as listed in the original notice. 
Human remains representing, at minimum, one additional individual, and 
18 additional associated funerary objects were added to the inventory 
from the site cluster complex CA-SDI-149 & CA-SDI-4935A (W-198 & W-
186), located east of Rancho Santa Fe, near the south bank of the San 
Dieguito River in San Diego County, CA. One additional associated 
funerary object was added to the inventory from a location near Fox 
Point (Woodley), now Leucadia Boulevard, in Carlsbad, San Diego County, 
CA. Five additional Indian Tribes are determined to be culturally 
affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects 
listed in this amended notice.

                              Human Remains
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                                            Original
                 Site                      number of     Amended  number
                                          individuals    of  individuals
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Site cluster complex: CA-SDI-149 & CA-               3                4
 SDI-4935A (W-198 and W-186,
 respectively) in San Diego County, CA
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                                           Associated Funerary Objects
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                                           Original         Amended
                 Site                       number          number                 Amended description
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Unknown location near Fox Point                     20              21  one soil sample, five ecofacts, one lot
 (Woodley), which is now Leucadia                                        of unmodified shell, one unmodified
 Boulevard, in Carlsbad, San Diego                                       shell, three chipped stone core tools,
 County CA.                                                              two utilized flakes, two chipped stone
                                                                         unworked flakes, three chipped stone
                                                                         scrapers, one metate, one groundstone
                                                                         with asphaltum, and one mano fragment.

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Site cluster complex: CA-SDI-149 & CA-           2,713           2,731  one lot of mixed and human faunal bones,
 SDI-4935A (W-198 and W-186,                                             one modified faunal bone, 63 unmodified
 respectively) in San Diego County, CA.                                  faunal bones, 60 lots of faunal bone,
                                                                         two undecorated ceramic body sherds, 17
                                                                         lots of undecorated body sherds, five
                                                                         undecorated ceramic rim sherds, three
                                                                         lots of undecorated ceramic rim sherds,
                                                                         94 chipped stone biface tools, 61
                                                                         chipped stone choppers, 40 chipped
                                                                         stone cores, 28 chipped stone core
                                                                         tools, one stone drill, two stone
                                                                         crescents, 15 projectile points, 174
                                                                         stone scrapers, 947 unworked flakes,
                                                                         633 lots of unworked flakes, 71
                                                                         utilized flakes, 23 lots of utilized
                                                                         flakes, 30 manos, five metates, 16
                                                                         historic ceramic sherds, seven lots of
                                                                         historic ceramic sherds, 28 fragments
                                                                         of historic glass, 35 lots of historic
                                                                         glass fragments, one metal clover
                                                                         ornament, one metal earring, one metal
                                                                         pig figurine, 71 lots of metal
                                                                         including nails, bail bearings, pins,
                                                                         buttons, bullets and various fragments;
                                                                         one spoon, three lots of wood, one lot
                                                                         of brick fragments, 11 lots of
                                                                         charcoal, two lots of plastic, four
                                                                         lots of leather sole fragments, six
                                                                         lots of seeds, one lot of pieces of
                                                                         rubber, 11 ecofacts, seven lots of
                                                                         ecofacts, one lot of red ochre, one
                                                                         modified shell, 23 unmodified shells,
                                                                         51 lots of unmodified shell, 98 lots of
                                                                         soil, 38 pollen samples, 29
                                                                         hammerstones, six battered stones, and
                                                                         one fire affected stone.
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Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Museum of Us has determined that:
     The human remains described in this amended notice 
represent the physical remains of 17 individuals of Native American 
ancestry.
     The 3,528 objects described in this amended 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and Campo Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, California; Capitan Grande 
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California (Barona Group of Captain 
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 Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
the Santa Ysabel Reservation); Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians 
of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village 
of California; La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, California (previously 
listed as La Jolla Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the La Jolla 
Reservation); 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; 
Pala Band of Mission Indians (previously listed as Pala Band of Luiseno 
Mission Indians of the Pala Reservation, California); Pauma Band of 
Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation, California; 
Pechanga Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno 
Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California); Rincon Band 
of Luiseno Mission Indians of Rincon Reservation, California; San 
Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Soboba Band of 
Luiseno Indians, California; and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay 
Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 19, 2023. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Museum of Us 
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The Museum of Us is responsible for sending a copy of this 
notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
10.13, and 10.14.

    Dated: December 13, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-27526 Filed 12-19-22; 8:45 am]
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