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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 102950-102951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29939]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039210; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los 
Angeles, 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA has completed an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has 
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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after January 17, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Allison Fischer-Olson, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, 
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, 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 
Fowler Museum at UCLA, and additional information on the determinations 
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in 
its inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Three bags and 2,125 individual associated funerary objects are 
flake tools, flakes, cores, hammerstones, an

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ash/clay chunk, groundstone fragments, utilized flakes, post fragments, 
manos and mano fragments, shell beads, pestles and pestle fragments, 
battered rock, projectile points, core tools, bone awls and awl 
fragments, worked bone, polished bone, chipping debitage, stone 
fragments, faunal bone, gorges, arrow shaft straightener, burned and 
unburned acorns, bone whistle parts, a dirt root cast, charcoal beam 
fragments, scrapers, mortars, pounders, baked clay, cobbles, charcoal, 
boiling stones, and shell fragments. Of the total associated funerary 
objects, three bags and 62 individual items are present. The associated 
funerary objects were recovered from the Case Site (4-TEH-S246), which 
is located in southern Tehama County near Vina, California. In 1965, 
UCLA Archaeological Survey excavated the site under the direction of 
Donald S. Miller and Phil Burnham. The collection was recorded as never 
having been received until a small portion was found mixed with another 
accession/collection. The remainder may have been retained by the 
property owner. Human remains were found at the site by the property 
owner but are not present. During consultations, the Tribal 
Representative from Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians identified this as 
a Wintun site that is within the ancestral territory of the Tribe. Due 
to the presence of human remains, the representative identified the 
entire site, and any material found there, as culturally sensitive. 
There is no known use of potentially hazardous substances for treatment 
of the associated funerary objects.
    Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been 
identified. The 169 bags and 516 individual associated funerary objects 
are flakes, cores, core tools, faunal bone, bone awls and awl 
fragments, cobbles, fire stones, manos and mano fragments, choppers, 
pounding stones, acorns, projectile points and point fragments, 
hammerstones, nodules, bone whistle parts, flake tools, scrapers, clay 
fragments, metal fragments, shell pendants, fishhooks, modified bone, 
fire fractured stone, pestles and pestle fragments, beads, groundstone 
fragments, stone fragments/samples, digging stones, stone rings, shell 
fragments, worked flakes, boiling stones, sharpening tools, organics, 
charcoal, and soil samples. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were recovered from the Bambauer Site (4-TEH-S247), which is 
located in southern Tehama County near Hamilton City, California. In 
1965, UCLA Archaeological Survey excavated the site under the direction 
of Donald S. Miller and Thomas Durbin. The collection is noted as 
initially going to California State University, Chico under the care of 
Keith Johnson until 2003, when it was received at UCLA. During 2024 
consultations, human remains were located mixed in with faunal bone. 
Human remains were also recovered in 1974 excavations of the same site, 
which were repatriated to the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in 2023. 
In a 1965 site report, excavation director Thomas Durbin states that 4-
TEH-S247 is known to be a Wintun site. During consultations, the Tribal 
Representative from Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians also identified 
this as a Wintun site that is within the ancestral territory of the 
Tribe. Due to the presence of human remains, the representative 
identified the entire site, and any material found there, as culturally 
sensitive. There is no known use of potentially hazardous substances 
for treatment of the human remains or associated funerary objects. No 
lineal descendant can be determined.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available 
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in 
this notice.

Determinations

    The Fowler Museum at UCLA has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 172 bags and 2,641 individual objects described in 
this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally 
with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as 
part of the death rite or ceremony.
     There is a connection between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Paskenta 
Band of Nomlaki Indians of California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 
17, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the 
Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible 
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 
Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: December 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-29939 Filed 12-17-24; 8:45 am]
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