90 FR 51 pg. 12555 - Notice of Intended Repatriation: San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 51Page: 12555
Page: 12555Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039520; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-04386 Filed 3-17-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039520; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Bernardino County Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES:
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on or after April 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Gabrielle Carpentier, San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA 92374, telephone (909) 798-8613, email gabrielle.carpentier@sbcm.sbcounty.gov.
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 San Bernardino County Museum, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of 10 unassociated funerary objects have been requested for repatriation.
The 10 unassociated funerary objects are one lot of ground stone, one lot of ceramic sherds, one lot of lithic flakes, one lot of fire-affected rock, one lot of bone awls (A5-379), one lot of abalone shells (A5-378), one lot of shell pendants (A5-383 and A5-381), one lot of unworked shell (A5-380), one lot of green slate (A5-283), and one lot of faunal bone. These objects from Turner Springs Ranch (SBCM-88) donated to the museum by Dr. Gerald A. Smith (A5) and accessioned in 1962. They were excavated in the early 1940s by Fred Turner and Gerald Smith, where multiple burials were reported, and in one instance "an abalone shell was found inverted over the skull of a very small child." The museum nominated the Turner Springs District to the National Register in 1977.
Determinations
The San Bernardino County Museum has determined that:
• The 10 unassociated funerary objects described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
• There is a reasonable connection between the cultural items described in this notice and the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation ( previously listed as San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California).
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES . Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 17, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the San Bernardino County Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and not competing requests. The San Bernardino County Museum is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 11, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04386 Filed 3-17-25; 8:45 am]
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