Finding Aid, Perry Creek Associated Documentation

The MCX-CMAC utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of the collections. The purpose of this is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Perry Creek Associated Documentation.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and one half linear feet.

In 1972, the Corps of Engineers was planning to create a reservoir using Perry Creek in Northwest Iowa. As is the case in these situations, a cultural resources survey was undertaken by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, under the supervision of Dale R. Henning. This survey identified sixty-three sites of cultural importance. In the wake of the cultural resources survey, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in a cooperative effort with the National Park Service (NPS), conducted a field school in the project area that carried out subsurface testing on two sites, 13PM61 (Larsen site) and 13PM62 (Vondrak Site). The correspondence from this collection (see folder 2) makes it clear that the NPS was less than pleased at the progress and outcomes of these projects. Both reports were egregiously late, turned in after numerous extensions. (The field school was conducted in the summer of 1974; the report was originally due August 1975. The final report was finally turned in June 1982.)