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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 object in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after November 21, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

LRCCD must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary object are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. LRCCD 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 10.10. 

Dated: October 11, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038926; 

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Notice of Intended Repatriation: Yale 

Peabody Museum, Yale University, 

New Haven, CT 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 

david.skelly@yale.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 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. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24419 Filed 10–21–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038939; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Eastern California Museum, 

Independence, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Eastern 

California Museum has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and has 

determined that there is no lineal 

descendant and no Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization with 

cultural affiliation. 

DATES: Upon request, repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice may occur on or 

after November 21, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Shawn Lum, Eastern 

California Museum, 155 N Grant St., 

Independence, CA 93526, telephone 

(760) 878–0258, email ecmuseum@

inyocounty.us. 

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 Eastern 

California 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, 

one individual have been identified. 

The two associated funerary objects are 

pieces of shell and obsidian flakes. 

These items were donated to the 

museum by the Lindsey family of Lone 

Pine, CA on 4–14–1977 and they were 

assigned accession #1977.103 (ID #NL3). 

Consultation 

Invitations to consult were sent to the 

Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens 

Valley; Bishop Paiute Tribe; Fort 

Independence Indian Community of 

Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence 

Reservation, California; Lone Pine 

Paiute-Shoshone Tribe; and the 

Timbisha Shoshone Tribe. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The following types of information 

about the cultural affiliation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice are available: 

geographical. The information, 

including the results of consultation, 

identified: 

1. No earlier group connected to the 

human remains or associated funerary 

objects. 

2. Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe as 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization connected to the human 

remains or associated funerary objects. 

3. No relationship of shared group 

identity between the earlier group and 

the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization that can be reasonably 

traced through time. 

Determinations 

The Eastern California Museum has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The two 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. 

• No known lineal descendant who 

can trace ancestry to the human remains 


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