MS 2400 Division of Mound Exploration Records
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2400
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division
label: Creator
content: Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Archeology -- Mounds
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division
label: Creator
content: Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1881-1889
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Much of the general administrative correspondence was transferred in 1960 from the Smithsonian Archives.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2400
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Cyrus Thomas, "Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology, BAE-AR 12, Washington, 1894 is based on these materials, but the printed report frequently contains important differences from the original notes, as well as being less detailed.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes reports, field notes, drawings, correspondence and other materials relating to mound explorations by Cyrus Thomas and collaborators, including F. S. Earle, J. W. Emmert, Gerard Fowke, Charles C. Jones, J. P. MacLean, J. D. Middleton, Warren K. Moorehead, P. W. Norris, Edward Palmer, H. L. Reynolds, J. P. Rogan. L. H. Thing.

Site reports and correspondence relating to specified localities are arranged by state. There are separate files of material relating to more than one state; correspondence of a general nature; and bibliographic references.
label: Contents
content: Alabama - Arkansas; Canada, Florida - Illinois; also California and Canada, Indiana - New York, New York - North Dakota (and South Dakota), Ohio, Oregon - Tennessee (South Dakota, see North Dakota) Virginia - Wisconsin, "Miscellaneous and General" (more than one state discussed) General Correspondence, 1882-1892, A - Z Bibliography; Newsclippings; Thomas, Personal Miscellanea.