Repatriation

2.) Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver CO (Augusts 29, 2008). In 1983 a donor gave the museum a whale hairpiece made of mountain goat horn with abalone insets, which art dealer Michael R. Johnson indicated that he had obtained a decade earlier from Mrs. Dan Katzeek Klukwan, Alaska. Johnson opined that this type of whale hairpiece, intended for use with a single braid, would have been worn around he time of Captain James Cook's third Pacific voyage (1776-1780)(American Indian Art, Vol. 35 (2):78, Spring 2010).

4. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: New York State Museum, Albany, NY (August 29, 2008). In 1956 the museum purchased two items formerly in the Health collection from the Logan Museum of Anthropology, both of which Heath reported came from a grave in Emmet County, Michigan: a copper kettle and a silver wristband bearing what is probably the touchmark of eighteenth century silversmith Jonas Schindler. As "unassociated funerary objects" under NAGPRA both pieces were slated for repatriation to the Little Travers Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Michigan (American Indian Art, Vol. 35 (2):78, Spring 2010).

9.) Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, OR and Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman WA September 10,2008). In 1982 an American Indian grave was found on a streamside terrace in north central Oregon. The remains were repatriated to Oregon's Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. This notice also stated that the "unassociated funerary objects" discovered at the time, fifty one items, including fragments of a bone awl, some stone fragments, and three square nails, would be turned over to the same tribe entity (American Indian Art, Vol. 35 (2):79, Spring 2010).