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###### Department of the Interior

###### National Park Service

          - [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038955; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

# 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 Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe County, NM.

# DATES:

Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or after November 29, 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, 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 minimum, one individual was collected at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe County, NM. The human remains are hair clippings collected from one individual who was recorded as being 32 years old and identified as “San Ildefonso.” An unknown collector took the hair clippings at the Laboratory of Anthropology between 1930 and 1933. They 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

Based on the available information and the results of consultation, cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available about the human remains described in this notice.

## Determinations

The PMAE has determined that:
    - The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
    - There is a reasonable connection between the human remains described in this notice and the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico.

## Requests for Repatriation

                    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this notice must be                           ( print page 86366)                        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 November 29, 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.

*Authority:*                     Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.                

Dated: October 25, 2024.

Melanie O'Brien,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

[FR Doc. 2024-25187 Filed 10-29-24; 8:45 am]

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