Notice of Inventory Completion Published in the Federal Register

A Notice of Inventory Completion for ancestors and belongings from Bodega Bay (Accession 490, UCDA-Bodega Bay, and material from the Bodega Bay Marine Lab and Reserve) and UCDA-Marin County have 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. If you have any questions, please contact Megon Noble (Repatriation Coordinator) at [email protected] or 530-752-8501.

Template Repatriation/Claim Letter

The Notice includes the following:

There is a total of 2,463 lots of associated funerary objects (134 of which are currently missing or discarded) from the Bodega Marine Lab (UC Davis Accession 490). The 2,329 lots of present associated funerary objects are 1,201 lots of unmodified shell, 299 lots of faunal bone, 260 lots of chipped stone, 233 lots of organic material, 165 lots of fire affected rock, 70 lots of charcoal, 51 lots of historic material, 19 lots of worked shell and shell beads, 12 lots of unmodified stone, 11 lots of petrified wood, six lots of groundstone, one lot of obsidian hydration slides, and one lot of worked bone. The 134 lots of missing or discarded associated funerary objects are 108 lots of organic material, 19 lots of unmodified shell, three lots of charcoal, two lots of soil samples, one lot of fire affected rock, and one lot of unidentified missing material. Accession 490 resulted from UC Davis archaeology field schools led by graduated student Michael Kennedy between 1997 and 1999. The collection is comprised of three sites, all located within UC Davis's Bodega Marine Reserve in Sonoma County, California. The three sites are CA-SON-322 (Bodega Lagoon Site), CA-SON-327 (Mussel Point) and CA-SON-2378 (Bodega Marine Lab (BML) Site/Ocean Springs).

There is a total of eight lots of associated funerary objects from the Bodega Bay area in the UC Davis Department of Anthropology Teaching Collection (four of which are currently missing). The associated funerary objects are obsidian projectile points. They were surface collected by Michael Kennedy from the Bodega Bay area between 1998 and 2000 and donated to the Teaching Collection in 2002.

There is a total of 12 associated funerary objects from the Bodega Marine Lab and Reserve (BML/BMR) property. The associated funerary objects are six lots of projectile points, one lot of chipped stone and shell, one small grinding bowl, one large grinding bowl, one grinding bowl fragment, one stone, and one lot of unidentified missing material. The projectile points, stone, chipped stone, and shell were found on BMR property and deposited at the BML at various dates. The small grinding bowl may have been found in the 1960s during construction. The large grinding bowl was found in the late 1980s while excavating for building construction. The grinding bowl fragment was found on the property at an unknown date.

There is a total of one associated funerary object from Novato, Marin County, California in the UC Davis Anthropology Teaching Collection. The associated funerary object is a groundstone pestle that was acquired at an unknown time.