Notice2025-04196
Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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March 17, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, 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 in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 50 (Monday, March 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12343-12344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04196]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039412; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 Peabody Museum, Yale University,
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 in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 16, 2025.
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#365257405f5218455d535a5a4f764f575a5318535243"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b3d7d2c5dad79dc0d8d6dfdfcaf3cad2dfd69dd6d7c6">[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
its 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, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. In 1890, George
I. Spencer removed the remains from Gleason Mound (8Br99) in Brevard
County, Florida. In the same year, the collections were donated to the
Yale Peabody Museum through William H. Brewer, Professor at the Yale
University Sheffield Scientific School.
Human remains representing, at least, 18 individuals have been
identified. The 14 associated funerary objects are seven lots of
comingled stone, charcoal, worked shell, and bone implements, one
ceramic vessel, one bone implement, one shell pendant, one stone
implement, one arrowhead, and two carved bone effigies. The remains and
items were removed from Casuarina Mound (8Br122) in Brevard County in
1906 by Charles N. Jenks of Massachusetts. The Yale Peabody Museum
purchased the collection from Jenks on October 10, 1907.
Human remains representing, at least, 17 individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The remains
were removed from the South Indian Field Site (8Br23) in Brevard County
in the summer of 1944, during a joint excavation between the Yale
Peabody Museum and University of Michigan. Landowner Albert T.
Anderson, and graduate students Vera Masius Ferguson and Jean Baxter
excavated, and the collections were received at the Yale Peabody Museum
in September 1944.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. In 1946, the
remains were removed from an unknown locale approximately 2.8 miles
south of Sebastian Inlet in Brevard County by Yale graduate student,
John M. Goggin, and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. Prior to March
1947, the remains were removed from Herndl Beach (8Br109) in Brevard
County and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum by Albert T. Anderson.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The remains
were collected by Albert T.
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Anderson, John M. Goggin, and Irving Rouse, curator at the Yale Peabody
Museum, from the surface at Gleason Mound (8Br99) in Brevard County and
donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in June 1949.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The one associated funerary object is faunal remains, a
tibia, of a large mammal. Between 1940-1942, Charles D. Higgs excavated
various locations throughout Florida, including a beach escarpment site
north of Sebastian Beach (8Br130) in Brevard County. Higgs donated the
remains and items to the Yale Peabody Museum in August 1951.
Human remains representing, at least, nine individuals have been
identified. The 16 associated funerary objects are four lots of
comingled sherds, stone implements, and fossilized mammoth bones, one
mended ceramic vessel, one ceramic sherd with a bird effigy handle, one
pipe bowl, one stone spearhead, one stone plummet, two stone knives,
one stone pestle, one stone hand axe, one polishing stone, and two
stone celts. In the summer of 1933, the collection items were removed
from the cemetery provenience associated with Buzzard's Island (8Ci2)
in Citrus County, Florida by Froelich Rainey, a Yale University
graduate student, as a part of Yale Peabody Museum anthropological
research. The remains and items were donated and received by the Yale
Peabody Museum in October 1933.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The two associated funerary objects are one Busycon pe.
shell dipper and one net weight. The remains and items were removed
from Goodland Point Burial Site (8Cr46) in Collier County, Florida in
the spring of 1949, by Albert T. Anderson, John M. Goggin, and Irving
Rouse, and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in June 1949.
Human remains representing, at least, three individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. Prior to 1923,
the remains were removed from an unknown locale from an island
southeast of Vero Beach in Indian River County, Florida and donated to
the Yale Peabody Museum by Ralph Erwin Hirsh.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The remains
were removed from the Beachland Site (8Ir16) in Indian River County in
the 1940s by Charles D. Higgs and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in
August 1951.
Human remains representing, at least, 20 individuals have been
identified. The 30 associated funerary objects are five lots of ceramic
sherds, one lot of Busycon pe. shells, one lot of faunal remains, and
23 ceramic sherds. In early 1933, the collection items were removed
from Weedon Island (8Pi1) in Pinellas County, Florida by Yale Peabody
Museum curator, Cornelius Osgood, and graduate student, Froelich
Rainey, with permission from commercial landowner, E.M. Elliott and
Associates. The remains and items were donated and received by the Yale
Peabody Museum in April 1933.
Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. One individual
each was removed from Palmer-Taylor Mound (8Se18), and Cabin Mound
(8Se19) located in Seminole County, Florida by members of the Harvard
University Excavator's Club between 1940-1941. After being stored at
the Harvard Peabody Museum for several years, the remains were donated
to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1949.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The remains,
which include comingled faunal remains, were removed from an unknown
locale in Florida in 1941 by H. Gordon Rowe and donated to the Yale
Peabody Museum in April 1969 by Mrs. H. Gordon Rowe.
Human remains representing, at least, four individuals have been
identified. The one associated funerary object is a lot of ceramic
sherds. Prior to 1869, the remains were removed from an unknown locale
near the mouth of Lake Harney in Volusia County, Florida by H. S.
Williams and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The three associated funerary objects are one lot of
ceramic sherds, one lot of comingled shell and stone, and one lot of
shell. At an unknown date, the collection items were removed from a
locale described as the bank of a small creek near St. Marks in Wakulla
County, Florida by Alfred Bishop Mason, Yale University student, class
of 1871. Mason donated the remains and items to the Yale Peabody Museum
in March 1883.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of 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 82 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 67 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Miccosukee
Tribe of Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; and The Seminole Nation of
Oklahoma.
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 16,
2025. 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 Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations 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: January 23, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04196 Filed 3-14-25; 8:45 am]
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