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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Santa 

Rosa Junior College Multicultural 

Museum (SRJCMM) 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 Los Angeles County and Santa 

Barbara County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Rachel Minor, Santa Rosa 

Junior College Multicultural Museum, 

1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 

95401, telephone (707) 524–1862, email 

rminor@santarosa.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 SRJCMM. 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 summary or related records held 

by the SRJCMM. 

Description 

The three cultural items were 

removed from Santa Barbara and Los 

Angeles, CA. Accession #87.027: one 

Chumash Steatite Bowl, pre-1800, found 

on the island of Catalina. Bowl has 

several old breaks that have been 

repaired. Was probably found in shards. 

Donated by Charles Beardsley to the 

SRJCMM in 1987. Accession #92.065 A 

and B: one stone mortar and one stone 

pestle, found on the Santa Barbara Coast 

in the 1800s by the Harrington family. 

Donated in 1992 by Mr. Jess Rathbun. 

The three unassociated funerary 

objects are one steatite bowl, one stone 

mortar, and one stone pestle. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items 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: Geographical 

information and expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the SRJCMM has 

determined that: 

• The three 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 

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 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 March 25, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the SRJCMM 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 SRJCMM is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9. 

Dated: February 9, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03580 Filed 2–21–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037417; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) 

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 the Pawnee Indian 

Reservation in Pawnee County, OK, and 

Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in 

Kay County, OK. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after March 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Jane Pickering, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–2374, email jpickering@

fas.harvard.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 PMAE. 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 PMAE. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, three individuals were 

collected at the Pawnee Indian 

Reservation, Pawnee County, OK. The 

human remains are hair clippings 

collected from one individual who was 

recorded as being 37 years old, one 

individual who was recorded as being 


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30 years old, and one individual whose 

age was not recorded. All three 

individuals were described as 

‘‘Potawatomi.’’ Arvel R. Snyder took the 

hair clippings at the Pawnee Indian 

Reservation between 1930 and 1933. 

Snyder sent the hair clippings to George 

Woodbury, who donated the hair 

clippings to the PMAE in 1935. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were 

collected at the Chilocco Indian 

Agricultural School, Kay County, OK. 

The human remains are hair clippings 

collected from one individual who was 

recorded as being 14 years old and 

described as ‘‘Potawatomi.’’ Lawrence E. 

Correll took the hair clippings at the 

Chilocco Indian School between 1930 

and 1933. Correll sent the hair clippings 

to George Woodbury, who donated the 

hair clippings to the PMAE in 1935. 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: kinship and 

anthropological. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native 

Hawaiian organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of four individuals 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. 

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 March 25, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the PMAE 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 PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 9, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03583 Filed 2–21–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037407; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Kansas State University, Manhattan, 

KS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas 

State University 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 

March 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Williamson, 

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, 

and Social Work, Kansas State 

University, 204 Waters Hall, 1603 Old 

Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506– 

4003, telephone (785) 532–6005, email 

mwillia1@ksu.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 Kansas State 

University, 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 

Based on the information available, 

human remains representing, at least, 

one individual has been reasonably 

identified. The 2,292 associated 

funerary objects are debitage 

(approximately 2,131 fragments), 

unmodified stone (66), chipped stone 

debris (24), chipped stone tools (14), 

projectile points (seven), hematite (one), 

faunal (17), shell (one), beads (two), red 

ochre (two), charcoal (16), daub (10) and 

a bullet. 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects listed above were 

removed from Geary County, KS, at a 

site known as Witt Mound 1 (14GE608). 

Dr. Patricia J. O’Brien and students 

excavated as part of an archaeological 

field school during the summer of 1974. 

Since then, the items have been under 

the stewardship of Kansas State 

University. 

Cultural Affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is reasonably identified by 

geographic location or acquisition 

history. 

Determinations 

Kansas State University has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 2,292 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 Kaw Nation, 

Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; 

The Osage Nation; Three Affiliated 

Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 

North Dakota; and the Wichita and 


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