Five sacred Tlingit items could be returned to Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. A notice published in the federal register on Monday stated the items were “acquired” by William P. Palmer III and given to the University of Maine in 1982. The items now reside in the university’s museum. They include a shaman’s pipe and mask and other items placed near grave sites or associated with death ceremonies. Under federal law , such cultural or sacred objects belong to Indigenous