Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 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 in this notice.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 203 (Thursday, October 22, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66717-66718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-21532]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[N7581; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0044032; 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 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 November 23, 2026.

ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains 
and associated funerary objects 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#f49095829d90da879f9198988db48d959891da919081"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6c080d1a0508421f07090000152c150d000942090819">[email&#160;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, five individuals have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from a Pueblo burying ground near Abiquiu in Rio Arriba 
County, in the immediate vicinity of Poshuouinge Pueblo by David 
Baldwin, Yale University graduate, in 1878. The collection was received 
at the Yale Peabody Museum over the course of three donations on 
January 16, 1878, March 21, 1878, and June 5, 1878.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. The three associated funerary objects are one lot of fabric 
burial wrappings, one basketry fragment, and one rabbit stick. The 
collection was removed from Salmon Ruins, a Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo 
site in San Juan County, by Christian Snyder on January 1, 1879. David 
Baldwin assisted Snyder in donating the collection to the Yale Peabody 
Museum, where it was received on March 29, 1879.
    Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from an unknown location in an unknown county within the 
San Juan Watershed, by Theophil Mitchell Prudden, Yale University 
graduate, sometime between 1873 and 1906. The collection was received 
at the Yale Peabody Museum on April 21, 1906.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. Based on a 
letter received from the collectors, the collection was removed from 
near Fort Bayard in Grant County by Harvey B. McClure and Major A.B. 
Smith some time prior to November 13, 1919. The collection was received 
at the Yale Peabody Museum on February 24, 1920.
    Human remains representing, at least, 14 individuals have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from the C-F ranch site in the Mangas Valley in Grant 
County in 1938 by John Rodman Paul, professor at the Yale School of 
Medicine. An exact location for this provenience is not known. The 
collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum in January 1940.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from the Thompson Ruin in the Mangas Valley in Grant County 
in 1938 by John Rodman Paul, professor at the Yale School of Medicine. 
The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum in January 1940.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from the Corral Ruin within proximity to Tyrone in Grant 
County in 1938 by John Rodman Paul, professor at the Yale School of 
Medicine. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum in 
January 1940.
    Human remains representing, at least, seven individuals have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from the region of the Mangas Valley in Grant County in 
1938 by John Rodman Paul, professor at the Yale School of Medicine. The 
collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum in January 1940.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The collection 
was removed from Saddle Rock Ruin in 1938 by John Rodman Paul, 
professor at the Yale School of Medicine. The collection was received 
at the Yale Peabody Museum in January 1940.
    Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been 
identified. The seven associated funerary objects are one ceramic 
ladle, four ceramic sherds, one lot of ceramic sherds, and one 
partially mended ceramic vessel. The collection was removed by Carmen 
Pagano in 1956 from a locale referred to as Canyon Sita, near 
Albuquerque. An exact provenience is unknown but is likely to be a 
Bernalillo County location of either Ca[ntilde]oncito, in the East 
Mountain area, or the land of the To'hajiilee Navajo Chapter, formerly 
named the Ca[ntilde]oncito Band of Navajos. The collection was received 
at the Yale Peabody Museum on June 19, 1956.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been 
identified. The 10 associated funerary objects are nine lots of ceramic 
sherds and one fragment of oxidized iron. The collection was removed by 
Carmen Pagano in 1956 from Golden, a census-designated locale in Santa 
Fe County. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on 
June 19, 1956.

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

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remains of 36 individuals of Native American ancestry.
    <bullet> The 20 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 Hopi Tribe 
of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; 
and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

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 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 November 
23, 2026. 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 and any other consulting 
parties.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: October 15, 2026.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2026-21532 Filed 10-21-26; 8:45 am]
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