Notice2024-11447
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Published
May 24, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University (hereafter the Yale Peabody Museum) 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45919-45920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11447]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037976; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Natural
History, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale
University (hereafter the Yale Peabody Museum) 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 June 24, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum of
Natural History, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118, telephone
(203) 432-3752, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6d2d7c0dfd298c5ddd3dadacff6cfd7dad398d3d2c3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b2d6d3c4dbd69cc1d9d7dedecbf2cbd3ded79cd7d6c7">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
Yale Peabody Museum, and additional information on the determinations
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in
the inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, four individuals have been
reasonably identified. The two associated funerary objects are one lot
of shells, shell beads, glass beads, stone bifaces, and one lot of
shells, shell beads, red ochre. Prior to 1876, George Bird Grinnell
removed the collections from Mescalitan Island, a mound on Santa Cruz
Island, and an unknown location within Santa Barbara County. Grinnell
donated the collection to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1876.
Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been
reasonably identified. The associated funerary objects are one lot of
faunal remains. Circa 1864-1872, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., removed the
human remains from the area between the cities of Santa Barbara and
Ventura, donating them to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1877. The one
associated object is one lot of faunal remains.
Human remains representing, at least four individuals have been
reasonably identified. The 15 associated funerary objects are three
perforated stones, nine stones, one blue bead, and two lots of shell
beads. The Reverend Stephen Bowers removed the human remains and
cultural items from three proveniences within Santa Barbara County,
which are Mescalitan Island, the region of Santa Barbara, and the
Sisquoc River area, in 1875 and then sold the collection to Elias Root
Beadle circa 1876. The collection was donated to the Yale Peabody
Museum in 1916 by Herbert H. Beadle.
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 Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 10 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 18 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.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Santa
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation,
California.
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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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 24, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Yale Peabody
Museum 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 Yale Peabody Museum is responsible for sending
a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe 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: May 15, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-11447 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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