THE PAPERS OF R. CLARK MALLAM (1963-1986)

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

1940 Born, January 7 in Beatrice, Nebraska to Harold Mallam and Ruth Chapman Mallam.

1957 Received diploma from Wymore High School, Nebraska.

1959 Received Associate of Arts degree from Fairbury Junior College (Fairbury, Nebraska).

1959-1961 Served as a Field Infantry Medic for the U. S. Army, Alaskan Command.

1961 Married Judith Shores

1963 Received Bachelor of Science degree in History from University of Nebraska.

1963- 1965 Taught history at Grand Island High School, Nebraska.

1964 Awarded the William Robertson Coe Fellowship in American Studies at University of Wyoming.

1966 Received Master of Arts degree in Anthropology from Adams State College, Colorado

1966 Taught history and chaired department at Pershing College in Beatrice, Nebraska.

1967 Taught Social Studies at University of Nebraska.

1969 Joined Faculty of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa as Director of Archeological Research Center and Assistant Professor.

1972 Awarded Fellowship from University of Kansas Institute in Humanistic Computation.

1972 Earned Faculty Growth Award from the American Lutheran Church (and again in 1982).

1973 Received Master of Philosophy from University of Kansas

1973 Named Director of Effigy Mounds Survey, Allamakee County, Iowa.

1975 Received Doctor of Philosophy from University of Kansas.

1978 Awarded University House Fellowship from University of Iowa.

1979-1983 Named Danforth Associate by the Danforth Foundation.

1982 Awarded Scholar in Residence by Kansas Committee for the Humanities.

1986 Died, June 2, at home of a brain tumor.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF MATERIAL:

The material is arranged into nine series: I. Biographical files; II. Correspondence Files; III. Effigy Mounds Research Files; IV. Files of Professional Development; V. Files of Professional Service; VI. Research Files (other than III); VII. Teaching Files; VIII. Writings by R. Clark Mallam; and IX. Non-textual Materials. The collection is complete except for a large set of color slides used by Dr. Mallam in his lectures. These currently reside in the Luther College Department of Anthropology.

The first series of Biographical files span the years 1963-1985. It includes Mallam's college files, news clippings regarding his work, files on his awards and promotions, a vita file and letters to him during his final illness. There is no personal memorabilia or family history. Neither is there any personal correspondence between Dr. Mallam and family members or friends.

The Correspondence files in Series II cover the years 1968-1986. The files are in the original chronological order. Dr. Mallam segregated three files of correspondence with specific individuals and one file of recommendations for students. Considering his extensive involvement in his contemporary world of anthropology and archaeology, the files, at 0.4 linear feet, could be deemed sparse. Dr. Mallam had the reputation for firing off letters about a variety of topics, but little evidence of that activity survives in this series.

The Effigy Mounds Research files in Series III are perhaps the most significant part of this collection. Beginning in 1960 and ending in 1984, these files document the extensive field work, scholarship and lobbying done by Dr. Mallam to preserve these unique remnants of the Upper Mississippi River native Americans. Mound builders became his area of expertise. The files in this series show the growing awareness of the phenomena as well as his unique contributions to the field of archaeology. The Series is arranged in two subseries: Research Files of data collections and correspondence regarding this data; and Dissertation Files containing data, maps, charts, correspondence and the final manuscript.

Series IV contains Dr. Mallam's files pertaining to his Professional Development and cover the years 1969-1985. Although these make up one of the largest series, they are relatively narrow in scope. Conference notes from only six seminars exist among the series. Dr. Mallam attended many more professional seminars than this would indicate and was in demand as a participant as his reputation grew, but only these few files remain.

Dr. Mallam's files of Professional Service, spanning 1969-1985, can be found in Series V. These files contain his correspondence and personal notes regarding various boards and professional organizations' committees on which he served. While he was sought after as a Board and committee member, his colleagues report that he had little patience for meetings and bureaucracy. The sparse representation of this series is not out of line with Dr. Mallam's conservative involvement. Two exception are notable. First, Dr. Mallam's long-standing membership of the Iowa Association of Archeologists is not in evidence nor is his mandatory service on various Luther College committees.

Series VI contains research files for projects other tan the Effigy Mounds National Monument. There are three types of files in this series: field notes (6 folders); background reading in alphabetical order; and reports issued as a result of these investigations. The reports represent an extensive body of professional work. An inventory of the reports is in the first file folder.

The largest series in the collection, Series VII, contains Dr. Mallam's teaching files from 1970 through 1984. He was a renowned lecturer and prepared rigorously for his classes. This level of conscientiousness is clear among the extensive files in this series. The main portion of the series are 104 folders of detailed lecture notes arranged alphabetically by title of lecture. In addition to these there are general files including test questions, film schedules, examples of reserved readings, class rosters and student papers. The general files are useful in giving the researcher an idea of Dr. Mallam's relationship with his students.

Series VIII contains the writings of R. Clark Mallam and spans the years 1968-1985. According to his vita, the 39 articles or monographs constitute a nearly complete collection of his professional writings. The manuscripts represent published and unpublished works. The works are arranged alphabetically and a list of titles is available in the first folder. In addition to his professional writing is the draft of Indian Creek Memoirs, a memoir he was writing when he died. The book was published posthumously.

Non-textual materials were found scattered throughout his collection and where brought together in Series IX. This series includes 35 mm negatives (347 items), a photographic contact sheet (one item), a large number of black and white photographic prints (334 items), 2"x2" slides (51 items), unidentified maps and sketches of sites. All are documenting the various excavations in which Dr. Mallam participated. The researcher is referred to the Luther College Anthropology department for additional illustrations of his study of Native Americans.

PROVENANCE AND DONOR:

These documents and files were removed from Mallam's office at Luther College to his home during his illness. A year later, Mrs. Mallam and Dr. Lori Stanley, of the Luther College Anthropology Department, sorted through the files and donated this collection to the College Archives. Additional files were found in the Ethnographic storage area in 1995.

BOX INVENTORY

SERIES I: BIOGRAPHICAL FILES, 1963-1986, 0.4 linear foot

BOX 1.

Awards and Honors, 1977-1985

Evaluations and Promotions, 1963-1975

Grades and Transcripts, 1963-1972

Letters re: His Illness, 1986

Newspaper Clippings re: His Work, n.d. 1978-1984

Notebooks, n.d., 2 folders

Pershing College Files, 1966

University Papers and Records, 1968-1972, n.d., 8 folders

Vita, 1969-1987

SERIES II: CORRESPONDENCE FILES, n.d., 1968-1986, 0.4 linear foot

BOX 2.

Correspondence Files, 1968-1986, n.d., 3 folders

Correspondence with Kraabel, A. Thomas, 1983-1985

Correspondence with Iowa Historic Preservation Office, 1972-1975

Correspondence with Metcalf, George, n.d., 1969-1983

Correspondence re: Recommendations for Students, 1971-1981

SERIES III: EFFIGY MOUNDS RESEARCH FILES, 1960-1984, 1.2 linear feet

BOX 3.

Subseries 1. Effigy Mounds Research,

Computer Analysis, 1973-9174

Correspondence, n.d., 1976-1980

Correspondence with Duane Anderson, 1980

Correspondence with National Park Service, 1974

Correspondence with Clifford Richey, 1983-1984

Manuscript by George Horton, 1981

Field Notes, 1973, 1980-1981 3 folders

General Mounds Files (Other Mounds), n.d., 1960-1984, 10 folders

Mound Site Files, 1975-1983, 4 folders

National Monument Interpretive Program file, 1978-1979

National Monument Management Plan, 1977

Press Clippings, 1974, 1983

Proposal Files, n.d., 1974-1975, 3 folders

Report Files, 1973-1984, 5 folders

Sabbatical Research, 1982-1983

Manuscript by John Tandarich, 1981

Survey, n.d.

Subseries 2. Dissertation Files,

Unpublished University Papers, 1972

Charts & Figures File, n.d.

Correspondence, 1971-1975

Data File, 1974

Defense Of Dissertation Notes, 1975

Draft of Thesis, by hand, 1973

Draft of Thesis, 1973-1974, 2 folders

BOX 4

Subseries 2. Dissertation Files (Con't), 0.2 lin. ft.

Original Manuscript of Thesis, 1974, 2 folders

Bound copy of Thesis, 1974

Proposal for Dissertation, 1973

Written Comprehensive Examination, 1972

SERIES IV: FILES OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1969-1985, 0.2 lin. ft.

BOX 5.

Conference files/"Plains Anthropology", 1969,1970,1975

Conference files/"Iowa Archaeology Society", 1971

Seminar files/"Photographic Techniques", 1977

Study Fellowship documents/"University House", 1977-1978

Seminar files/ "Native American Religions", 1982

Conference files/no title, 1985

Seminar files/"Myers Briggs Tests", 1985

Conference files/ Iowa Acedemy of Science, 1975

SERIES V: FILES OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, 1969-1985, 0.4 linear foot

BOX 6.

Central Plains Tradition Symposium, n.d.

Iowa Archaeology Society file, 1970-1977

Iowa Academy of Science file, 1974-1975

Association of Iowa Archaeologists file, n.d., 1974-1979

The Future of Iowa Archaeology files, 1975, 1977, 2 folders

National Register Review Board file, 1977

State Historical Board file, 1977-1978

Survey of Cultural Resources file, 1978

Luther College Collections Committee files, 1984-1985, 2 folders

SERIES VI: RESEARCH FILES, 1961-1985, 1.6 linear feet

BOX 7

Field Notes, 1970-1977, n.d. 0.2 lin. ft.

BOX 8

Background Readings (alpha), 1972-1985, 0.4 lin. ft.

BOX 9

Reports, 1961-1985, 1.0 lin. ft. (List in first folder)

SERIES VII: TEACHING FILES, 1965-1985, 2.6 linear feet

BOX 10

Teaching Files (alpha by title of lecture) A through Med. (List in first folder)

BOX 11

Teaching Files (alpha by title of lecture) Meth. through W (See list in Box 10)

BOX 12

General Teaching Files, 1970-1984, 0.4 lin. ft.

BOX 13

General Teaching Files, n.d., 0.4 lin. ft.

SERIES VIII: WRITINGS BY R. CLARK MALLAM, 1968-1985, 0.8 linear foot

BOX 14

Articles and Monographs (alpha by title), A through F (List of all titles in first folder)

BOX 15

Articles and Monographs (alpha by title), G through I

BOX 16

Articles, Monographs and Draft Manuscript (alpha by title) M through W

SERIES IX: NON-TEXTUAL MATERIAL, n.d., 0.6 linear foot

BOX 17

Photographs, n.d., 1973-1985, 0.4 lin. ft. (Inventory in Box)

BOX 18

"Quiviran Images of a Rainfall World", Video Tape, n.d.

"Rhythms of the Headwaters, Audio Tape, 1983

BOX 19

Photos (prints and negatives) of Effigy Mounds, n.d.

Application for Effigy Mounds National Register

BOX 20

Maps and sketches of sites and mounds, n.d., one oversize box.

Alpha List of Teaching Files

Box 10

Background Mitigation Procedures

Background Readings

Ag and Land Use, 1980

American Cultural Configuration

America Now by Harris

Ancient Chinese Civilizations

Anthropology and Its Sub-Fields

Anthropology and Its Sub-Fields

Anthropology and the Modern World

Anthropology of the Great Plains

Anthropological Theory, 1980-1981

Aranda Arunta

Archaeology of Iowa, 1976

The Archaic Stage

Arctic Eskimo

Australopithecines

Background Research, "Prairies", 1955, 1959, 1963

Background to Quiz, "You Owe Yourself a Drunk"

Bushman Culture

Cataloging Techniques, 1969

Civilization of Indus Valley

Collapse of Mayan Civilization, 1975

Concept of the Mode of Production

The Condition of Global Society

Contemporary Native Americans, 1983

Continuity and Discontinuity, 1972

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Evolution and Change

Cultural Resource Management, 1978-1981

Cultural Systems

The Culture Concept

Anthro. 64: "The Destruction of the Ferguson Tract", 1978

Discipline of Anthropology

Disease and Health: Human Adaptation (J-Term), 1981

Economic Subsystems

The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking

Ethno Medicine, 1985

Evolution of Hominoidea

Evolution of Writing

Genetics and Evolution

Geological Periods and Dating Methods-Pleistocene

Heritage of American Indians and Present Status

High Civilization of the Americas

Historical Materialism

History of Anthro. Thought

History of Archaeology

History of Indian-White Relations

History and Theory of Anthropology

Holocaust: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, 1982

Homo Sapiens

Homo Sapiens, Tools and Intelligence

The Indian in Popular Literature

Indians of the Great Plains

Introduction to Anthro-Native American Indians, 1975

Iowa Effigy Mounds Manifestation

Language and Linguistic

Lower Pleistocene Culture

The Mbuti Pygmies of the Congo

Medical Anthropology, 1980

Box 11

Methods of Cultural Anthropology

Method and Theory in Prehistory

Middle Pleistocene Culture

Minorities-American Indian

Mississippi Culture

Myth of Marginability

Native American Introduction

Neanderthaloid Phase

Neolithic Period

The New Archaeology

North American Indians-Anthro 64

North American Indians-Summation

North Eastern Woodlands

North West Coast Cultures

Paleo and Neolithic Cultures

P.A.S.T. (Programming Archaeology of School Teachers), 1975

Pithecanthropines

Plains Archaeology Background, 1972

Plains-Mandan

Plains-Teton Dakota

Post-Glacial Adaptations-Mesolithic

Primitive Economics

Primitive Political Systems

Primitive Religion

Productive Relationships

Proposal for an Anthro. and Archaeology Program

Religion and Ideology

Settlement of the New World

SW American Indian Zuni-Navajo

The Sub-Arctic

The Units of Culture

Upper Paleolithic Culture

Urbanization

Urban Life

W.N. American Indians, Plateau, Basin, CA

World Prehistory

The Woodland Culture

Writing Survey Reports

Visual Topics

Miscellaneous Notes

January Term in Taos, NM

January Term-the 1920s

January Term-Georgia and Florida, 1984

LIST OF WRITINGS OF R. CLARK MALLAM

"Anthropology and Education," 1968

"Archaeology," n.d

"An Atlatle Weight From S.E. Nebraska," n.d.

"Anthropological Theory and the Mound Builders," n.d.

"Bears, Birds, Panthers, and 'Elephants': ", n.d.

"A Boat-stone from North Central Iowa," n.d.

Book Review of Eastern Iowa Prehistory, 1981, 1983 (2f)

"Continuity and Discontinuity in Cultural Transmission," 1971

"The Curator", n.d

"The Curator", 1983

"A Cut and Perforated Human Mandible...'" 1979

"Driftless Area Archaeology'" 1983

The Effigy Mounds of Iowa: An Endangered Heriatge", 1981

"The Famed Dragon Pipe'" n.d

"Fluted Projectile Points...'" n.d.

"The Great Plains," n.d.

"Ideology from the Earth," 1982

Indian Creek Memoirs (draft), 198_

"The Indian in Public School Textbooks ...'" 1971

"Inquiry in Anthropology," n.d

"Intrusive White Burials ...," 1976

The Iowa Effigy Mound Manisfestation, 1975

"Iowa's Endangered Cultural Heritage," 1982

"The Mound Builders ...," 1976

"Mounds. Effigy Mounds," 1974

"Mound Investigations in Garnavillo Township," 1979

"An Old Copper Complex Artifact," 1978

"Oneota Disc Pipe...," 1978

"Pikes Peak State Park Project," n.d.

"A Pipestone Bird Effigy ...," 1984

"Quandahl Rock Shelter Re-Visited," 1970

"The Quandahl Rock Shelter Re-Visited," 1978

Renderings for Various Articles, n.d.

"Second Annual Conference on Surveying Woodland," 1976

"The Serpent: A Prehistoric Life-Metaphor ...," 1984

"A Shellfish Effigy ...", n.d.

"The Silver Calf" and The 30 Day Homecoming," 1986

"Site of the Serpent," n.d.

"Some Notes on an Eden-Eared Projectile Point, 1977

"Some Notes on a Fluted Projectile Point ...," 1978

"Some Views on the Archaeology of the Driftless Area ...," 1984

"The E.B. Stillman Site," 1981

"Tammuz and the Mound Builders," 1984

Untitled Mss (on teaching history), n.d.

Untitled Student Research Paper, n.d.

"When On High ...," 1980