diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/TestController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/TestController.java
index e4a79aba7..d6bd41130 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/TestController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/TestController.java
@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ public class TestController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
         body.put("zoo1", zoo1);
         body.put("zoo2", zoo2);
         
+        // Test recursive dump - array of arrays
+//        String[] fruitArray = { "apples", "bananas", "strawberries" };
+//        String[] animalArray = { "cat", "dog", "mouse" };
+//        String[] dayArray = { "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday" };
+//        String[][] arrays = { fruitArray, animalArray, dayArray };
+//        body.put("arrays", arrays);
+        
         body.put("trueStatement", true);
         body.put("falseStatement", false);
         
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/directives/DumpDirective.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/directives/DumpDirective.java
index 0aaddb2d1..26484daff 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/directives/DumpDirective.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/directives/DumpDirective.java
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ public class DumpDirective implements TemplateDirectiveModel {
         String includeTemplate;
         Object value = val;
         String type = null;
-        
+        Writer out = env.getOut();
+
         if (val instanceof SimpleScalar) {
             includeTemplate = "dump-string.ftl"; 
             type = "string";
@@ -70,6 +71,10 @@ public class DumpDirective implements TemplateDirectiveModel {
             includeTemplate = "dump-array.ftl";
         } else if (val instanceof SimpleHash) {
             includeTemplate = "dump-hash.ftl";
+        // In recursive dump, we've gotten down to a raw string    
+//        } else if (val == null) {
+//            out.write(var);
+//            return;
         } else {
             includeTemplate = "dump-string.ftl";
             value = value.toString();
@@ -83,11 +88,11 @@ public class DumpDirective implements TemplateDirectiveModel {
         map.put("type", type);
         
         map.put("stylesheets", dataModel.get("stylesheets"));
+        //map.put("dump", this);
         
         FreemarkerHelper helper = new FreemarkerHelper();
         String output = helper.mergeMapToTemplate(templateName, map, config);      
-        
-        Writer out = env.getOut();
+
         out.write(output);
 
     }
diff --git a/webapp/web/css/dump.css b/webapp/web/css/dump.css
index 8f68fafcc..a6fc173e3 100644
--- a/webapp/web/css/dump.css
+++ b/webapp/web/css/dump.css
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 
 .dump {
     border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
-    border-bottom: 2px solid #ccc;
+    border-bottom: 3px solid #ccc;
     padding: 1em 0;
     margin: 1em 0;
 }
+
+.dump li {
+    list-style-type: none;
+}
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-array.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-array.ftl
index 8e7dcb9ae..630b61e21 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-array.ftl
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-array.ftl
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 <strong>Values:</strong><br />
 <ul>
 <#list value as item> 
-    <li>${item_index}: ${item}</li>   
+    <#-- Shallow (non-recursive) dump  -->
+    <li>${item_index}: ${item}</li> 
+    <#-- Deep (recursive) dump 
+    <li>${item_index}: <@dump var="${item}" /></li> -->
 </#list>
 </ul>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-hash.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-hash.ftl
index b55f33654..5dec2896b 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-hash.ftl
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-hash.ftl
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 
 <ul>
     <#list value?keys as key> 
-        <li>${key} = ${value[key]}</li>   
+        <#-- Shallow (non-recursive) dump  -->
+        <li>${key} = ${value[key]}</li>
+        <#-- Deep (recursive) dump 
+        <li>${key} = <@dump var="${value[key]}" /></li> -->
     </#list>
 </ul>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-string.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-string.ftl
index 54300bc33..13c0dd728 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-string.ftl
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/partials/dump/dump-string.ftl
@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@
 
 <strong>Type:</strong> ${type}<br />
 <strong>Value:</strong> ${value}<br />
-
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/test.ftl b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/test.ftl
index 80bfc4dd6..e0d3e7c9d 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/test.ftl
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/freemarker/body/test.ftl
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 <@dump var="fruit" />
 <@dump var="trueStatement" />
 <@dump var="falseStatement" />
+
 <@dumpDataModel />
 
 ${stylesheets.addFromTheme("/sstest.css", "/sstest2.css")}