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Language:English
Date:1940-1945
Contributor:Dickson, Donald F | Dickson, Marion H. | Smith, Murphy D.
Subject:Archaeology | Mounds | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Human remains | Pottery | Museums | Museums | Illinois--History
Type:Still Image | Text | Three-dimensional object
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Postcards | Brochures | Specimens
Extent:.1 linear feet
Description: This collection of memorabilia includes clippings, postcards (one from Marion H. Dickson), a brochure, and an arrow-head (a gift from the site to Murphy D. Smith, who deposited these materials at the APS). Images from a 1945 article in the Peoria Morning Star on the establishment of the new historical state park at the site include several striking photos of an excavated burial site (described as containing 230 skeletons of Mound-builders who died in a devastating epidemic), including one with of a school group at the burial site and another highlighting Dr. Don F. Dickson's method of leaving the dead in situ; a photo of the Dickson family farmstead (on which the Dickson mounds were located) before the establishment of the state park; and a photo of reconstructed pottery displayed in the museum. There is also a brochure about the site as a tourist and educational attraction with information on the history of the mounts, the Dickson Mound Museum, the work of the Dickson family (primarily Dr. Don F. Dickson, Marion H. Dickson, and Thomas M. Dickson), and the neighboring Payne Collection of artifacts. Several images of the excavated mass burial indicate that it was expected to be the main attraction to visitors, and it is called the "greatest display of stone age man in the world...230 skeletons left in original positions." Views of the burial site are also featured on the two postcards. The Dickson Mounds Museum is still a branch of the Illinois State Museum, and the Dickson Mounds are now understood to be a Mississippian cemetery complex associated with nearby village sites and a ceremonial center.
Collection:Dickson Mound (Lewistown, Ill.) Memorabilia (Mss.970.6.D56)
Culture:
Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Language:Tohono O'odham | English
Date:1974-1993
Contributor:Miguel, John | Bruckner, Janice | Mapatis, Marcella | Belin, Bernice
Subject:Physical anthropology | Medicine | Linguistics | Religion | Education | Arizona--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Maps | Elicitation sessions | Grammars | Lessons | Teaching materials | Vocabularies | Brochures | Newsletters
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: The majority of the materials (all manuscripts and several audiocassettes) in the Jan Bruckner Papers relate to the Tohono O'odham language and reservation. They were produced from an effort to create Tohono O'odham vocabulary to facilitate physical therapy sessions, while Bruckner (a physical therapist) was working at Sells Indian Hospital, Tohono O'odham Reservation, between 1982 and 1992. There is a binder and some classroom handouts with medical vocabulary, commercial maps and other printed materials, and audiocassette recordings of language classrooms and of lexica and phrases recorded by primarily John Miguel. The entire collection has been digitized and is available in the Digital Library, via the collection finding aid.
Collection:Jan Bruckner Papers (Mss.SMs.Coll.84)