[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 169 (Friday, August 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50995-50996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-20095]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with of 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 in the possession of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Tehama 
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.
    An assessment of documents associated with the human remains and 
associated funerary objects was made by professional staff of the 
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in consultation with 
representatives of the Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki 
Indians of California; Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; 
and Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, 
California.
    Between 1953 and 1955, human remains representing a minimum of 100 
individuals were removed from CA-Teh-58, a site located on the 
northwest bank of the Sacramento River approximately 2.25 miles east of 
Red Bluff, Tehama County, CA. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were accessioned into the museum in 1953 and 1955 (Accessions 
UCAS-246 and UCAS-337). No known individuals were identified. The 2,912 
associated funerary objects are 18 animal bone and fragments, 6 abalone 
fragments, 8 abraders, 19 acorns, 1 arrow point, 1 arrow shaft 
straightener, 7 awls, 1 bar,

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1,806 beads, 1 bird burial, 5 blades, 10 can fragments, 9 choppers, 2 
claws, 6 concretions, 1 piece of cordage, 2 cores, 1 cup, 1 cylinder, 9 
dices, 1 disc, 5 drills, 2 fishhooks, 187 obsidian and chert flakes, 1 
iron guide, 5 knives, 2 manos, the remains of 1 ``meal,'' 1 metate, 1 
iron nail, 14 flint and obsidian nodules, 5 pebbles, 1 pencil, 11 
pendants, 27 pestles, 7 lumps of pigment, 1 pipe, 62 points, 41 
projectile points, 11 scrapers, 568 shells and shell fragments 
(approximate count), 8 shoe fragments, 12 shroud fragments, 1 skirt, 9 
slabs, 6 stones, 3 animal teeth, 4 twine fragments, and 1 whistle.
    Site CA-Teh-58 is a burial mound, associated with at least one 
permanent village site. The University of California Archaeological 
Survey started its excavation in 1953. Although, in 1948, the land was 
privately owned, the National Park Service provided the permit and the 
project funding under the River Basin Survey program. The historic age 
of the site is confirmed by the presence of glass beads and other 
metallic objects that are associated with some of the burials. Site CA-
Teh-58 lies entirely within the Nomlaki aboriginal territory whose 
northern border extends to Cottonwood Creek almost 10 miles to the 
north of the site. Descendants of the Nomlaki are members of the 
Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California; 
Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round Valley Indian 
Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, California.
    Officials of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains 
described above represent the physical remains of 100 individuals of 
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 
Anthropology have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 
(3)(A), the 2,912 objects 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. Lastly, officials 
of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology have determined that, 
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 Grindstone Indian 
Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California; Paskenta Band of 
Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round Valley Indian Tribes of the 
Round Valley Reservation, California.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary 
objects should contact Judd King, Interim Director of the Phoebe A. 
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 
Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 642-3682, before September 29, 
2008. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
to the Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of 
California; Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round 
Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, California may 
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
    The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is responsible for 
notifying the Grindstone Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of 
California; Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California; and Round 
Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, California that 
this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 28, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-20095 Filed 8-28-08; 8:45 am]
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