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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037067; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Field 

Museum, Chicago, IL 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field 

Museum has completed an inventory of 

human remains and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

collected at an unknown location or 

locations. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation 

Director, Field Museum, 1400 S Lake 

Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, 

telephone (312) 665–7317, email 

hrobbins@fieldmuseum.org. 

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 Field Museum. 

The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. Additional information on 

the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by the Field Museum. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were 

collected at an unknown location or 

locations. The human remains are hair 

clippings belonging to one individual, 

identified with the tribal designation 

‘‘Pottowotomie’’ (Field Museum catalog 

numbers 193211.11). Field Museum 

staff believe they were collected under 

the direction of Franz Boas and 

Frederick Ward Putnam for the 1893 

World’s Columbian Exposition in 

Chicago. The hair clippings were 

accessioned into the Field Museum’s 

collection in 1939. No information 

regarding the individual’s name, sex, 

age, or geographic location has been 

found. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: historical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Field Museum has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the Citizen 

Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest 

County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Match-e-benash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 

Indians of Michigan; Nottawaseppi 

Huron Band of the Potawatomi, 

Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi 

Indians, Michigan and Indiana; and the 

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in 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 in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 12, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Field 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 Field 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 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 6, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037053; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: San Francisco State University 

NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San 

Francisco State University NAGPRA 

Program, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes, 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. The cultural items were removed 

from Lake County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Elise Green, San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program, 1600 Holloway 

Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, 

telephone (415) 405–3545, email 

egreent@sfsu.edu. 

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 San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of the consultation, can be 

found in the summary or related records 

held by the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program. 

Description 

In 1972, cultural items were removed 

from site CA–LAK–305, on the main 

arm of Sam Alley Ridge in Lake County, 

CA. The items were stored in the San 

Francisco State College Anthropology 

Collection and subsequently became 

part of the Tregenza Anthropology 

Museum’s (TAM) archeological 


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collection. Upon closure of the TAM in 

2012, the items were transferred to the 

San Francisco State University 

NAGPRA program. The 180 

unassociated funerary objects are 22 

shells, three pieces of wire, one medial 

section square nail, one partial obsidian 

point, 39 square nails, 11 obsidian 

projectile point tip fragments, six chert 

projectile point fragments, 10 chert 

scrapers, seven obsidian scrapers, four 

obsidian projectile point fragments, one 

small square nail, one round nail, seven 

square nail fragments, one partial basal 

projectile point, one notched obsidian 

point, one corner notch point, two 

corner notch projectile point fragments, 

two square nail fragments, two corner 

notch obsidian point projectiles, one 

side notch projectile point, one 

projectile point fragment, two obsidian 

flakes, one medial section square nail, 

one chert projectile point base fragment, 

one projectile point fragment, one 

fragment of cooper, one iron chunk, two 

worked chert flakes, 14 worked pieces 

of chert, one chert corner notch point, 

one drill scraper point, two modified 

chert flakes, two pieces of glass, one 

square spike, one chert tip fragment, one 

obsidian burin, one medial obsidian 

projectile point fragment, one 

Winchester No.12 shotgun shell, one 

modified obsidian flake, one obsidian 

flake tool, one basal fragment small 

projectile point, one large nail, one large 

nail fragment, one chert knife fragment, 

one utilized chert flake, one reworked 

obsidian flake, two utilized obsidian 

flakes, one worked piece of obsidian, 

one thin triangular blade tip flake, one 

chert core medial fragment, one square 

nail medial, one modified piece of chert, 

four worked pieces of obsidian, two 

pieces of milky quartz, and one heavy 

metal ring. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. 

There is a relationship of shared group 

identity between the identifiable groups, 

tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or 

more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

linguistic, and other relevant 

information or expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program has determined that: 

• The 180 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, 

California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in 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 January 12, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the San Francisco State NAGPRA 

Program 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 San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Tribe identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 6, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037064; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert 

S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 

Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert 

S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

removed from Jefferson County, NY. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. 

Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 180 

Main Street, Andover, MA 01810, 

telephone (978) 749–4490, email 

rwheeler@andover.edu. 

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 Robert S. 

Peabody Institute of Archaeology. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the Robert S. Peabody Institute of 

Archaeology. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Jefferson County, NY. The 

individual was removed from an 

unknown site by R.W. Amidon and O. 

Pomeroy in 1902 and sent to the Robert 

S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology at 

some time after that. Originally reported 

on NAGPRA inventories as being from 

Monroe or St. Lawrence Counties, 

Amidon and Pomeroy focused their 

disturbance of sites in Jefferson County, 

NY. Amidon’s notes indicate that 

human teeth were found occasionally, 

but a specific site cannot be determined. 

No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological 

information, geographical information, 


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