"If not for Tom Wetherill’s deathbed wish, paper wasps might still be nesting in the century-old photo albums collected by his grandfather, one of five brothers who made the modern discoveries of Mesa Verde and other Indian ruins in the Southwest. Though later archaeologists ignored the Wetherills, maligning their work as insufficiently rigorous, the family kept records, books and photographs that are unusually intact. Their collections documented new plant species, an early dinosaur dig and artifacts of the Anasazi basket makers.
"The Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colo., displays Tom Wetherill’s collection."
A private seminar for the Wetherill family will take place to help determine where and how to preserve their individual collections.
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