[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64456-64457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20189]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036573; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, 
Davis, CA, and University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Davis (UC 
Davis) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
and have determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Solano County, CA.

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

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] and Alex Lucas, 
University of California, Berkeley, Office of Government and Community 
Relations, 200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 
570-0964, 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 UC 
Davis and UC Berkeley. The National Park Service is not responsible for 
the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by UC Davis and 
UC Berkeley.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, 107 individuals were 
removed from Solano County, CA. In 1965, CA-SOL-11 (UC Davis Accession 
16) was excavated by Walt Brown and Jay Ruby as a part of two UC Davis 
Field Schools. The 3,263 associated funerary objects are comprised of 
3,219 objects that can be located in the collections and 44 objects 
that cannot be located at this time. The 3,219 locatable associated 
funerary objects are 50 lots consisting of worked shells (including 
beads and pendants); 27 lots consisting of worked bones (awls, 
pendants, and other worked bones); 19 lots consisting of worked stone 
(pendants, beads, and other worked stone); 25 projectile points; 167 
lots consisting of groundstones; 1,602 lots consisting of stone 
debitage; 128 lots consisting of chipped stones (bifaces, scrapers, 
cores, and flake tools); 17 lots consisting of fired clay/ceramics; 643 
lots consisting of unmodified animal bones; 446 lots consisting of 
unmodified shells; 25 lots consisting of charcoal; four lots consisting 
of plant materials (seeds, nuts, acorn caps); 18 lots consisting of 
ochre; 26 lots consisting of ash; two lots consisting of miscellaneous 
minerals; and 20 lots consisting of unmodified stones. The 44 currently 
missing associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of worked 
shells; two lots consisting of worked bones; two projectile points; two 
lots consisting of groundstones; 11 lots consisting of stone debitage; 
seven lots consisting of chipped stones; two lots consisting of 
miscellaneous pieces of fired clay; six lots consisting of unmodified 
animal bones; one lot consisting of unmodified shells; two lots 
consisting of charcoal; one lot consisting of unmodified stones; and 
seven lots consisting of unknown materials.
    During May-June of 1946, University of California, Berkeley student 
William Clifford Massey removed three associated funerary objects from 
CA-SOL-11, which were subsequently appropriated by the University and 
accessioned into the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology 
collection. The three associated funerary objects are a stone point, 
one lot of stone flakes, and one lot of shells.
    On October 1, 1949, as part of the California Archaeological 
Survey, University of California, Berkeley student Arnold R. Pilling 
removed three associated funerary items from CA-SOL-11, which were 
subsequently appropriated by the University and accessioned into the 
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. The three associated funerary 
objects are a scraper, a blade, and a mortar.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice 
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity 
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures 
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The 
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the 
relationship: anthropological, archeological, biological, geographical, 
historical, linguistic, and oral traditional.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, UC Davis and UC Berkeley have determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 107 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 3,269 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably

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traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice and the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of 
the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria, California; 
Kletsel Dehe Wintun of the Cortina Rancheria (Previously listed as 
Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians); and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, 
California.

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 ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations 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 October 19, 2023. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, UC Davis and UC 
Berkeley 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. UC Davis and UC Berkeley are 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, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: September 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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