38758 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 138 / Thursday, July 22, 2021 / Notices 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Anne Amati, University of Denver 

Museum of Anthropology, 2000 E 

Asbury Avenue, Sturm Hall 146, 

Denver, CO 80208, telephone (303) 871– 

2687, email anne.amati@du.edu, by 

August 23, 2021. After that date, if no 

additional claimants have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

objects of cultural patrimony to The 

Tribes may proceed. 

The University of Denver Museum of 

Anthropology is responsible for 

notifying The Tribes that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: July 14, 2021. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15571 Filed 7–21–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0032322; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: California Department of 

Transportation, Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The California Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans), assisted by 

the Fowler Museum at the University of 

California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the 

San Luis Obispo County Archaeological 

Society Research and Collections 

Facility (SLOCAS), in consultation with 

the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to the 

California Department of 

Transportation. If no additional 

claimants come forward, transfer of 

control of the cultural items 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 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the California Department of 

Transportation at the address in this 

notice by August 23, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sarah Allred, California Department of 

Transportation, P.O. Box 942874, MS 

27, Sacramento, CA 94271, telephone 

(916) 956–5506, email Sarah.Allred@

dot.ca.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the California 

Department of Transportation, 

Sacramento, CA, and in the physical 

custody of the Fowler Museum at the 

University of California Los Angeles, 

Los Angeles, CA, and the San Luis 

Obispo County Archaeological Society 

Research and Collections Facility, San 

Luis Obispo, CA, that meet the 

definition of unassociated funerary 

objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

In 1965 and 1966, a total of 2,589 

unassociated funerary objects were 

removed from CA–SLO–175 in San Luis 

Obispo County, CA. David Abrams and 

Nelson Leonard, in association with the 

University of California Archeological 

Survey, began excavations when 

Caltrans sought to widen Highway 1, 

which would significantly impact this 

Middle-to-Late Period site. The land 

was originally owned by the Hearst 

Corporation. Caltrans purchased the 

right-of-way in June 1966. All laboratory 

work was completed at UCLA. Abrams 

reported on the site and the excavations 

in the MA thesis he submitted to the 

University of California Davis. 

In March of 1973, UCLA sent the 

materials collected from CA–SLO–175 

to SLOCAS (then located at Cuesta 

College) for further study and analysis, 

with the exception of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects. 

Subsequently, additional materials 

associated with the site were found at 

UCLA, and in May 1978, they were sent 

to SLOCAS for permanent curation. On 

July 14, 2017, UCLA sent the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to SLOCAS to unite the entire collection 

for an inventory, and to look for missing 

and loaned artifacts with the assistance 

of Chumash community members. The 

2,589 unassociated funerary objects are 

composed of 2,463 objects present in the 

UCLA collections and 126 objects that 

are currently missing. The 2,463 

unassociated funerary objects are seven 

pieces and one bag of asphaltum, one 

bag of charcoal, 717 pieces and 77 bags 

of unmodified faunal bone, one 

modified shell, 18 pieces of modified 

bone, 11 awls, 375 flakes, one etched 

stone, 367 scrapers, 179 cores, 34 

choppers, 19 anvils, 160 points, one 

arrow shaft straightener, seven stone 

balls, 33 bifaces, 55 shell beads, three 

stone pendants and one bag of stone 

beads, one sharpening stone, 54 stone 

bowls, six burins, nine pieces of 

debitage, 14 drills, two fishhooks, two 

pieces of ochre, one quartz crystal, six 

perforators/picks, 18 pieces and five 

bags of unmodified shell, 104 knives, 35 

grinding stones, 24 hammerstones, 61 

manos/pestles, 32 net weights, 10 

pecked stones, six tarring pebbles, and 

five other stone tools. The California 

Department of Transportation continues 

to look for the missing 126 unassociated 

funerary objects, which are two 

unmodified animal bones, one mortar, 

two stone bowls, four hammerstones, 13 

knives, three manos, one net weight, 

three pestles, 26 points, three tarring 

pebbles, two shell beads, 33 stone 

flakes, two shells with asphaltum, eight 

cores, three scrapers, one pick, one drill, 

11 pieces of charcoal, three modified 

animal bones, three burins, and one 

chopper. 

Following consultation with 

representatives of the Santa Ynez Band 

of Chumash Mission Indians of the 

Santa Ynez Reservation, California and 

three non-federally recognized Indian 

groups—the Barbaren ̃ o/Venturen ̃ o Band 

of Mission Indians, the yak tityu tityu 

yak ti5hini/Northern Chumash Tribe, 

and the Salinan Tribe of San Luis 

Obispo and Monterey Counties— 

(hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted 

Tribes and Groups’’), the California 

Department of Transportation has 

determined that CA–SLO–175 lies 

within the traditional territory of the 

Chumash and Salinan people. This 

determination is based on geographical, 

ethnographic, historical, oral traditional, 

and archeological information. 

Determinations Made by the California 

Department of Transportation 

Officials of the California Department 

of Transportation have determined that: 


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• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 2,589 cultural items 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 and 

are believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the unassociated funerary 

objects and the Santa Ynez Band of 

Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa 

Ynez 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 claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Sarah Allred, California Department of 

Transportation, P.O. Box 942874, MS 

27, Sacramento, CA 94271–0001, 

telephone (916) 956–5506, email 

Sarah.Allred@dot.ca.gov, by August 23, 

2021. After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the unassociated funerary 

objects to the Santa Ynez Band of 

Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa 

Ynez Reservation, California may 

proceed. 

The California Department of 

Transportation is responsible for 

notifying The Consulted Tribes and 

Groups that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 14, 2021. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15565 Filed 7–21–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0032318; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of Pennsylvania Museum of 

Archaeology and Anthropology, 

Philadelphia, PA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The University of 

Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology 

and Anthropology has completed an 

inventory of human remains, 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 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 should submit a written 

request to the University of 

Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology 

and Anthropology. If no additional 

requestors come forward, transfer of 

control of the human remains 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 should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to the University of 

Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology 

and Anthropology at the address in this 

notice by August 23, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Christopher Woods, Williams Director, 

University of Pennsylvania Museum of 

Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 

South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104– 

6324, telephone (215) 898–4050, email 

director@pennmuseum.org. 

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 under the control of 

the University of Pennsylvania Museum 

of Archaeology and Anthropology, 

Philadelphia, PA. The human remains 

were removed from unknown sites in 

Muskogee County, OK; Philadelphia 

County, PA; Burlington County, NJ; 

Madison County, IN and other areas in 

the United States. 

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. 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 University of 

Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology 

and Anthropology professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware 

Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin 

(hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). 

History and Description of the Remains 

Sometime prior to 1839, human 

remains representing, at minimum, one 

individual [catalog number 97–606–568] 

were removed from an unknown 

location in the United States by Mr. 

Witmer or an unknown 3rd party. Mr. 

Witmer transferred the human remains 

to Dr. Samuel G. Morton (b. 1799–d. 

1851) who, by 1839, had accessioned 

them into his collection. The human 

remains belong to a female individual 

between 30 and 40 years of age. No 

known individual was identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Between 1832 and March of 1834, 

human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual [catalog 

number 97–606–40] were obtained by 

Dr. Zina Pitcher (b. 1797–d. 1872) who, 

at that time, was serving as the Army 

surgeon at Fort Gibson, in Muskogee 

County, Oklahoma. Dr. Pitcher 

transferred the human remains to Dr. 

Samuel G. Morton who, by 1839, had 

accessioned them into his collection. 

The human remains belong to a female 

between 35 and 50 years of age. 

Archival documents indicate that she 

was from a ‘‘little colony on the Neosho 

River, near Fort Gibson.’’ No known 

individual was identified. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Between 1838 and 1843, human 

remains representing, at minimum, one 

individual [catalog number 97–606– 

1264] were removed from an unknown 

location in Indiana by Dr. Edwin Fussell 

[b. 1799–d. 1851], while he was living 

in Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana. 

By 1849, Dr. Fussell had transferred the 

human remains to Dr. Samuel G. 

Morton, who accessioned them into his 

collection. The human remains belong 

to a female between 40 and 50 years of 

age. Historical, published documents 

indicate she had been ‘‘massacred by 

the whites at a settlement on White 

River, Indiana.’’ No known individual 

was identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

In 1847, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual [catalog 

number 97–606–1263] were removed 

from a Native cemetery in the Port 

Richmond neighborhood of 

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, 

by Mr. Isaac Paschall Morris [b. 1803– 

d. 1869]. By 1849, Mr. Morris had 

transferred the human remains to Dr. 

Samuel G. Morton, who accessioned 

them into his collection. The human 

remains belong to a probable female 

between 30 and 40 years of age. No 


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