Notice2025-11144
Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Published
June 17, 2025
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 has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11144]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040360; 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 has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes
in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after July 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody
Museum, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c5a1a4b3aca1ebb6aea0a9a9bc85bca4a9a0eba0a1b0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7f1b1e09161b510c141a1313063f061e131a511a1b0a">[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, two individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. Prior to 1868,
Dr. Gouverneur Emerson removed the remains from a mound five or six
miles east of Dover, Kent County, Delaware. The remains were likely
taken from ``Rich Neck,'' the Emerson family farm near Little Creek.
Dr. Gouverneur Emerson donated the remains to the Yale Peabody Museum
in 1868 or 1869.
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 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 two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Delaware Nation, Oklahoma and the Delaware Tribe
of Indians.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after July 17, 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 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: June 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11144 Filed 6-16-25; 8:45 am]
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