Notice of Intended Repatriation: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 84389-84390 [2024-24419]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84389-84390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24419]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038926; 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 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 or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after November 21, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum, 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 summary or related records. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    A total of 473 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
    The one unassociated funerary object is a soapstone pendant removed 
by Walter Sheppard from the area of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island 
within Los Angeles County on an unknown date. In 1915, Sheppard donated 
the item to the Yale Peabody Museum.
    The three unassociated funerary objects are one lot of bone rings 
and bone cylinders attributed to grave 1, one lot of glass and shell 
beads, pearls, an arrowpoint, a sea otter jaw, and fish vertebrae 
attributed to grave 2, and one lot of glass, shell, and stone beads, 
shell ornaments, stone pendants, knives, arrowheads, microliths, ochre 
fragments, basketry fragments, bone items, faunal remains, soapstone 
items. W. George Washington Harford removed the items from San Miguel 
Island in Santa Barbara County circa 1871 and donated the material to 
the Yale Peabody Museum in 1872.
    The four unassociated funerary objects are one lot of unworked 
shells, one fishhook, one lot of bone fragments, and one lot of glass 
and shell beads removed from Dos Pueblos in Santa Barbara County by 
George Bird Grinnell and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1876.
    The eight unassociated funerary objects are four soapstone pipes, 
one stone mortar, one stone pestle, and two soapstone ollas removed 
from La Cieneguitas in Santa Barbara County by George Bird Grinnell and 
donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1876.
    The seven unassociated funerary objects are two soapstone ollas, 
two stone mortars, and three stone pestles removed from La Patera in 
Santa Barbara County by George Bird Grinnell and donated to the Yale 
Peabody Museum in 1876.
    The two unassociated funerary objects are one stone mortar and one 
stone pestle removed from Linville Mound in Santa Barbara County by 
George Bird Grinnell and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1876.
    The three unassociated funerary objects are two stone mortars and 
one stone bowl removed from the area of Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara 
County by George Bird Grinnell and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum 
in 1876.
    The one unassociated funerary object is a stone mortar. Circa 1864-
1872, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., removed the item from Santa Catalina 
Island within Los Angeles County and donated it to the Yale Peabody 
Museum in 1877.
    The 371 lots of unassociated funerary items are stone items used in 
making red ochre, quartz pendants, stone pipes, shell cups, a brass 
cup, pebbles, stone polishers, selenite, hammerstones, grinding stones, 
plummets, stone netsinkers, adzes, pestles, mortars, paint mortars, 
soapstone bowls, soapstone vessel fragments, metates, bone whistles 
with asphaltum, unworked faunal remains, horn implements, fossilized 
faunal remains, perforated eagle claws, ceramic vessels and sherds, 
bone awls, bone needles, metal buttons with glass beads, worked shell, 
glass, shell, and stone beads, shell pendants, shell gorgets, 
asphaltum, ochre, netting for fishing, fabric, a leather belt, a 
leather purse, soapstone root brushes, iron and shell fishhooks, an 
asphaltum water bottle, brass items, fragments of an unknown material. 
In 1875, Reverend Stephen Bowers removed these items from graves in the 
region of Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara County. Bowers sold the 
cultural items to Elias Root Beadle circa 1876. The items were donated 
to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 by Herbert H. Beadle.
    The 38 lots of unassociated funerary objects removed from 
Mescalitan Island in Santa Barbara County by Reverend Stephen Bowers in 
1875 are stone items, plummets, a carved polished stone head, an 
unfinished soapstone item, quartz set in asphaltum, mortar, pestles, 
glass, shell, and stone beads and pendants, a pipe, arrow-shaft 
smoothers, mica, stone paint pots, worked shell, incised bone, and 
unmodified stones. Bowers sold the cultural items to Elias Root Beadle 
circa 1876. The items were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 
by Herbert H. Beadle.
    The 30 lots of unassociated funerary objects removed from the 
Sisquoc River region near the city of Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara 
County by Reverend Stephen Bowers in 1875 are projectile points, 
drills, scrapers, hammerstones, bone whistles with asphaltum, shell, 
glass, and stone beads, bone fishhooks, shell ornaments, and a fragment 
of a soapstone vessel. Bowers sold the cultural items to Elias Root 
Beadle circa 1876. The items were donated to the

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Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 by Herbert H. Beadle.
    The one unassociated funerary object removed from Pisarro Rancho in 
Santa Barbara County by Reverend Stephen Bowers in 1875 is a stone 
implement. Bowers sold the cultural items to Elias Root Beadle circa 
1876. The items were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 by 
Herbert H. Beadle.
    The one unassociated funerary object removed from Santa Ynez in 
Santa Barbara County by Reverend Stephen Bowers in 1875 is a metal boot 
spur. Bowers sold the cultural items to Elias Root Beadle circa 1876. 
The items were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 by Herbert H. 
Beadle.
    The two unassociated funerary objects removed from Guadalupe in San 
Luis Obispo County by Reverend Stephen Bowers in 1875 are two stone 
knives. Bowers sold the cultural items to Elias Root Beadle circa 1876. 
The items were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 by Herbert H. 
Beadle.
    The one unassociated funerary object removed from Pesino Rancheria 
in San Luis Obispo County by Reverend Stephen Bowers in 1875 is a lot 
of shell beads. Bowers sold the cultural items to Elias Root Beadle 
circa 1876. The items were donated to the Yale Peabody Museum in 1916 
by Herbert H. Beadle.

Determinations

    The Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:
     The 473 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, to a 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.
     There is a reasonable connection between the cultural 
items described in this notice and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash 
Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California.

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 November 21, 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 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 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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