[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84396-84397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24420]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038927; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 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 the 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 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 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#036762756a672d7068666f6f7a437a626f662d666776"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2e4a4f58474a005d454b4242576e574f424b004b4a5b">[email protected]</span></a>.

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 
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, three individuals have been 
identified. The seven associated funerary objects are one lot of glass, 
shell, and stone beads, four lots of shell beads, one stone item, and 
one lot of bone implements. In 1875, the Reverend Stephen Bowers 
removed the human remains and cultural items from two proveniences 
within Santa Barbara County, which are San Miguel Island and the region 
of Santa Barbara, 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

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information available about the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:
    <bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
    <bullet> The seven 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 a death rite or 
ceremony.
    <bullet> 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.

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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described 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 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 Tribes 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.
[FR Doc. 2024-24420 Filed 10-21-24; 8:45 am]
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