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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to Repatriate Funerary Objects to 5 Native American Tribes
September 06, 2025

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (TNSFR) -- The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, California, plans to repatriate 1,052 funerary objects to five Native American tribes. The museum determined that the cultural items have a cultural affiliation with the Santa Rosa Indian Community; Table Mountain Rancheria; Tejon Indian Tribe; Tule River Indian Tribe; and the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation.

The collection of items includes shell beads, stone beads, historic gla . . .

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