Item 1
"Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: New York State
Museum, Albany, NY"
"History and Description of the Cultural items
In the late 19th century, 76 cultural items were removed from the
property [[Page 36243]]
of the former Christian Science Church located in Lansingburg,
Rensselaer County, NY, by Reverend O.C. Auringer of Troy, NY. Museum
records indicate that the cultural items were found in association with
human burials, but the human remains are not present in the
collections. The unassociated funerary objects from this site are 65
tubular and round glass beads, 4 discoidal shell beads, 1 tubular bone
bead, 1 stone bead, 1 perforated brass child's thimble, 1 small
crescent-shaped shell bead, 1 small lead bird figure, and 2 perforated
triangular brass projectile points."
Federal Notice
Item 2
"Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA"
"SUMMARY: The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, in
consultation with the appropriate Indian tribe, has determined that the
cultural items meet the definition of sacred objects and objects of
cultural patrimony and repatriation to the Indian tribe stated below
may occur if no additional claimants come forward. Representatives of
any Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with
the cultural items may contact the San Francisco State University
NAGPRA Program."
"At an unknown date, 1 cultural item, a pestle,was removed from
site site CA-SON-UNK (Dry Creek) in Sonoma County, CA. At an unknown date,
the pestle labeled ``Dry Creek near Healdsburg, CA'' was donated to the
San Francisco State University, Department of Anthropology, by an
unknown person. Based on consultation and ethnographic research, the
pestle is an object of cultural patrimony. The age of site CA-SON-UNK
(Dry Creek) is unknown but the site is located within the historically
documented territory of Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians,
California (previously listed as the Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo
Indians of California)."
Federal Notice
Item 3
"Notice of intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Posession of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (June 4, 2001). In 1905 the Peabody Museum received a donation of a "camas digger made of antler" that came from a Quinault grave in Washington the museum agreed to return it to the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation."
(American Indian Art, Vol. 27(4):101, Autumn 2002). I enjoyed doing this research especially when looking at the American Indian Art magazines. There is a lot of information in the articles that I have heard from relatives only through word of mouth. Now I know where to find the sources with written evidence.
