[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45919-45920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 [email protected].

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:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 10 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     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.
     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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