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Richard D. Jones papers, 1954-2013

MS 29

Biographical Note

Richard Donald Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. He received his B.S. degree from Northern Illinois State University in 1952. He was drafted into the US Army, attended basic training, and then received intensive training in the Russian language at the Army Language School near Fort Ord, California. Jones was an interrogator at various Army bases in Germany and was discharged in 1956. After a few years as a high school teacher, he came to the University of Arizona, earning master’s degrees in English and anthropology. When he became a degree candidate in the anthropology doctoral program, Jones began working with Bill Kelly in the newly formed Bureau of Ethnic Research. He selected the Papago community for his research, worked with the North Carolina Papago Modernization Project, created the Papago Population Register, and interviewed numerous Papago members for his 1968 dissertation “An analysis of Papago communities 1900-1920.” Jones has taught at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, and at San Diego State College. He is the author of many articles, lectures, book reviews, and book chapters on the Papago Indians of Arizona and related topics. In 2005 he was interviewed at length by Robert Hackenberg for a history of the University of Arizona’s Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. Jones currently resides in San Diego, California.

Scope and Content Note

The Richard D. Jones Papers consists of documentation relating to his work as an anthropologist in the American Southwest. The bulk of the collection consists of extensive research files for Jones’ 1968 dissertation on the Papago community near Sells, Arizona, including sound recordings and transcripts of oral histories, analysis of early historians’ Papago studies, maps, field journals, photographs of the community and its residents, and manuscript drafts. There are approximately 150 b/w photographs along with contact prints and 35mm negatives and a small number of color negatives. Two smaller but important groups of materials concern Jones’ training as a Russian translator at the U. S. Army Language School in Monterey, California, and the interviews conducted by Robert Hackenberg for a history of the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology.

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Restrictions

Access to specific information about the nature and location of archaeological resources may be restricted pursuant to the United States Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA) and Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 39-125. ARPA includes a specific exemption from the the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requirements for information about the nature and location of archaeological resources (16 U.S. Code 470hh: Confidentiality of information concerning the nature and location of archaeological resources).

Copyright

The Arizona State Museum may not own copyright to all parts of this collection. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Related Material

Correspondence, 2002-2013, between Jones and Dr. Raymond H. Thompson can be found in MS 4 Miscellaneous papers of Raymond H. Thompson.

Richard D. Jones donated a Tohono O’odham basket to ASM. This basket was made for him and has his name woven into it. It is stored with the basket collection as ASM ACC 2012-429.

Separated Materials

Photographs related to these archives may be housed with the Arizona State Museum Photographic Collection. Contact the ASM Curator of Photographic Collections for more information.

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Administrative Information

Credit Line

Richard D. Jones papers (MS 29).Arizona State Museum Library and Archives.

Processing Note

Processed in 2015

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