EARLY ARCHEOLOGY
EDWIN CURTISS & THE PEABODY MUSEUM EDWARD PALMER & THE SMITHSONIAN CLARENCE MOORE MARK HARRINGTON SITE NOTES DELLINGER BECOMES A RELIC ARKANSAS ARCHEOLOGY TODAY
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Mark Harrington at the mound at Ozan in Hempstead County, 1916
Courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. Mark Harrington
In the following decade, Mark Raymond Harrington, working for the Heye Foundation’s Museum of the American Indian in New York, extensively excavated sites in two areas of Arkansas: first in the southwestern part of the state at Caddoan sites on the tributaries of the Red and Ouachita Rivers, and then in the mountainous Ozark portions of northwest Arkansas, where he encountered and publicized prehistoric textiles and other perishable artifacts preserved by dry conditions in caves and bluff shelters. Harrington also visited the Arkansas River Valley and made preliminary descriptions of pottery based on “pot hunting” in cemeteries that were being looted.
In a 1930 article in Arkansas Alumnus, Dellinger railed about Harrington and other institutions excavating in Arkansas and removing artifacts, going so far as to state that “1/4 of the [Ozark bluff] shelters we are studying were robbed by the Heye Foundation.” Harrington published The Ozark Bluff Dwellers about his findings in Arkansas in 1960. Below are photographs from Harrington’s expeditions to Arkansas. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge the image and reveal its caption. Next > Site Notes
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