Notice2024-26090
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Published
November 12, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89030-89031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26090]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039002; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Yale Peabody Museum, 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 Yale
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Peabody Museum, Yale University intends to repatriate certain cultural
items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and
that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after December 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum, P.O.
Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118, telephone (203) 432-3752, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0e6a6f78676a207d656b6262774e776f626b206b6a7b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="85e1e4f3ece1abf6eee0e9e9fcc5fce4e9e0abe0e1f0">[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 summary or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of eight cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. Circa 1915, the eight cultural items were removed from
various burial contexts by Warren K. Moorehead, who is known to have
conducted an extensive archaeological survey of Maine between 1912 and
1920. The cultural items were transferred to George Thompson before
they were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1926.
The two unassociated funerary objects are one spearhead and one
plummet removed from Emerson Cemetery in Hancock County, ME.
The one unassociated funerary object is one spearhead removed from
Hartford's Cemetery in Hancock County, ME.
The one unassociated funerary object is one lot of red ochre
removed from Sullivan Falls Cemetery in Hancock County, ME.
The three unassociated funerary objects are three gouges removed
from Stevens Cemetery in Knox County, ME.
The one unassociated funerary object is one gouge removed from
Hathaway's Cemetery in Penobscot County, ME.
Determinations
The Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The eight 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.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians; Mi'kmaq Nation (previously listed as Aroostook Band of
Micmacs); Passamaquoddy Tribe; and the Penobscot Nation.
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 December 12, 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 cultural items 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 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: October 29, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-26090 Filed 11-8-24; 8:45 am]
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