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.

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A total of 146 unassociated funerary objects removed from locations in New Mexico have been requested for repatriation.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of one is a lot of copper concretions that was removed from an unknown provenience in the San Juan Watershed by Theophil Mitchell Prudden, Yale University graduate, sometime between 1873 and 1906. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on April 21, 1906.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of two are ceramic items that were removed from Chaco Canyon in 1896 by Theophil Mitchell Prudden, Yale University graduate. The items are one jar and one lot of bowls. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on April 21, 1906.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of 71 are ceramic items that were removed from the C-F ranch site in the Mangas Valley in Grant County in 1938 by John Rodman Paul, professor at the Yale School of Medicine. The items are three black-on-white bowls, 61 sherds, 6 lots of sherds, and one lug handle. An exact location for this provenience is not known. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum in January 1940.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of 68 are ceramic, stone, and bone items that were removed from the Thompson Ruin in the Mangas Valley in Grant County in 1938 by John Rodman Paul, professor at the Yale School of Medicine. The ceramic items are one Classic Mimbres black-on-white bowl, 48 sherds, 13 lots of sherds, one olla fragment, and one lug. The stone items are one stone and one lot of stone. The bone items are two faunal bone fragments. An exact location for this provenience is not known. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum in January 1940.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of one is a Mimbres Classic black-on-white bowl that was removed from an unknown provenience in the Southwest and purchased by the Yale Peabody Museum from Earl Gilmore; the item was removed by Gilmore's brother. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on June 11, 1974.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of one is a black-on-white bowl that was removed from an unknown provenience in the Southwest and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum by Anni Albers. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on December 20, 1979.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of one is a game ball removed from a Mimbres grave on ranchland in an unknown location in New Mexico by an unknown collector and donated to the Yale Peabody Museum by Peter David Joralemon. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on December 20, 1984.

Of the 146 unassociated funerary objects, a total of one is a Mimbres black-on-white bowl that was removed from an unknown provenience in New Mexico. The bowl was originally part of the collection of Peter G. Wray and was donated to the Yale Peabody Museum by Peter David Joralemon. The collection was received at the Yale Peabody Museum on December 30, 1991.

Determinations

The Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:

• The 146 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 as part of the 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 connection between the cultural items described in this notice and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

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 23, 2026. 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.

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