[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 189 (Friday, September 28, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59648-59649]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-23918]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-11194; 2200-1100-665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Francisco State University,
NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribe, and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and a present-day Indian tribe.
Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects may contact the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Indian tribe stated below may occur if no additional claimants come
forward.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a
cultural affiliation with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact the San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program at the address below by October 29, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State University
NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State
University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone
(415) 338-3075.
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 and
associated funerary objects in the possession of the San Francisco
State University NAGPRA Program. The human remains were removed from
Marin and Sonoma counties, 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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remains and associated funerary
objects was made by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, California.
History and Description of the Remains
In 1989, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from site CA-MRN-127 in Marin County, CA, by Holman and
Associates during construction at the Marin County Civic Center. San
Francisco State University received the collection in 2010. No known
individuals were identified. The 56 associated funerary objects are 23
pieces of obsidian debitage, 2 obsidian projectile points, 4 individual
pieces and 6 lots of chert debitage, 4 pieces of quartz, 11 bone tools,
1 pestle, 1 olivella bead, 1 trade bead, 1 lot of soil from the burial
matrix, and 2 manuports. A radiocarbon date of A.D. 160050,
obsidian hydration readings, and artifact typology indicate site CA-
MRN-127 contains Augustine Pattern components.
In 1967, human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals
were removed from site CA-MRN-365 in Marin County, CA, by San Francisco
State University during an archaeological field class under the
direction of Thomas F. King. No known individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present. Based on artifact typology,
the site dates to circa 1000 B.C.-A.D 1500 and contains Berkeley to
Augustine Pattern components.
In 1971, human remains representing, at minimum, ten individuals
were removed from site CA-MRN-402 in Marin County, CA, by San Francisco
State University during an archaeological field class under the
direction of Charles Slaymaker and Winfield Henn. No known individuals
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were identified. The 20 associated funerary objects are 1 obsidian
tool, 7 chert tools, 6 bone tools, 3 quartz crystals, and 3 lots of
chert and obsidian debitage. Ethnographic accounts and artifact
typology indicated the site dates to circa A.D. 1100-1884 and contains
Augustine Pattern components along with ethnohistoric and historic era
materials.
In 1997, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from site CA-SON-227 in Sonoma County, CA, by Origer and
Associates in conjunction with proposed construction at Sear Point
Raceway. San Francisco State University received the collection in
2010. No known individuals were identified. The 15 associated funerary
objects are 11 obsidian tools and debitage and 4 chert tools and
debitage. Obsidian hydration readings and artifact typology indicate
that site dates anywhere from circa A.D. 1000 to the time of European
contact and contains Augustine Pattern components.
Archeological evidence indicates that the Penutian-speaking proto-
Miwok people were settled in Marin and southern Sonoma counties, CA,
circa 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Ancestral Coast Miwok have been identified
on the basis of similarities between the archeological record and
historic material culture as early as 500 B.C. Ethnographic records
show that the Coast Miwok occupied all of Marin County at the time of
European contact. The ethnographic and archeological evidence, along
with consultation with representatives of the Federated Indians of
Graton Rancheria, California, indicates that all Native American sites
in Marin County, CA, and site CA-SON-227 in Sonoma County, CA are
culturally affiliated with descendants of the Coast Miwok. Descendants
of the Coast Miwok are members of the Federated Indians of Graton
Rancheria, California.
Determinations Made by the San Francisco State University
Officials of the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program have
determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of 15 individuals of
Native American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 91 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.
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
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, California.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State
University NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San
Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA
94132, telephone (415) 338-3075 before October 29, 2012. Repatriation
of the human remains to Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria,
California, may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program is responsible
for notifying the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, California and
the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, California that this
notice has been published.
Dated: August 30, 2012.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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