Notice of Intended Repatriation Published in the Federal Register

A Notice of Intended Repatriation of Cultural Items has been published in the Federal Register.  

To request repatriation on the above notice, we have provided template request for repatriation/claim letters below for your convenience. Please contact the Megon Noble, Repatriation Coodinator ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

Template Repatriation/Claim Letter

The Notice includes the following:

A total of two lots of cultural items have been requested for repatriation. The two lots of objects of cultural patrimony are one box of botanical material including soil, seeds, and charcoal flotation samples in various stages of sorting by size, type of material, and species and one lot of unidentified missing material. The material is from CA-SAC-497 (P-34-000556; JSA Parker 1), Snodgrass Slough in Sacramento County, California. It was excavated in the 1990s by Barry Scott of Jones & Stokes (now ICF Jones & Stokes). Archaeobotanist Eric Wohlgemuth deposited the botanical material at the UC Davis Department of Anthropology Museum in approximately 2012. The University is unaware of any treatment of the objects of cultural patrimony with pesticides, preservatives, or other substances that represent a potential hazard to the objects or to persons handling the objects.