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Marilyn Couture papers, 1975-1978
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Couture, Marilyn
- Title
- Marilyn Couture papers
- Dates
- 1975-1978 (inclusive)19751978
- Quantity
- approximately .5 cubic ft
- Collection Number
- 2696-005
- Summary
- Field notes, thesis, tapes, films, slides of work with Burns Paiute Indians and her research as a Jacobs Fund grand recipient
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Marilyn Couture is a cultural anthropologist who has contributed to recording the cultural history and ethnobotany of the Burns Paiute Indians. Marilyn taught summer field-anthropology courses at Linfield College for decades; her field notes, tapes, slides of work with Paiute Indians (1975-78) are archived at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Marilyn spent her retirement contributing to research in grafting and pomology, and as an educator in the Washington State School System.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Field notes, tapes, films, slides of work with Burns Paiute Indians, as well as Couture's thesis "Recent and Contemporary Foraging Practices of the Harney Valley Paiute", Portland State University, 1978.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
The Burns Paiute Reservation is located in rural eastern Oregon. The Burns Paiute Tribe is primarily comprised of the descendants of the Wadatika Band of Northern Paiutes. The traditional homelands of the Burns Paiute include 5250 square miles of land in central-southeastern Oregon, Northern Nevada, northwestern California and western Idaho. The Burns Paiute still maintain aboriginal title to much of their aboriginal territory. The Tribe currently has 402 enrolled members of which 142 people call the Reservation their home. They are a relatively “young” community with over 50% of their population under the age of 18.
The Burns Paiute consider themselves “the last truly free people in Oregon.” Their ancestors resisted encroachment of Euro-American settlers, refused to cede their lands, and fought to preserve traditional life ways. A treaty of “Peace and Friendship” was eventually signed, but never ratified. An Executive Order Reservation was established in 1869 that set aside 1.8 million acres for their people, but the Malheur Reservation was short-lived. An uprising to the east, the Bannock War, came to their homeland and when the people abandoned the Malheur Reservation to escape further conflict, a heavy price was paid. After the “war,” their surviving ancestors were forcibly marched over 300 miles in knee-deep snow to Fort Simcoe and Fort Vancouver in Washington State. In their absence, the Malheur Reservation was returned to “Public Domain” and a makeshift tribal encampment was established on the outskirts of the town of Burns, Oregon. For numerous reasons, the post-contact displacement of the Wadatika also allowed for preservation of the language and many traditional subsistence and cultural practices.
[Information adapted from the “About the Tribe” webpage from the Official Website of the Burns Paiute Tribe; Accessed: 05/17/2023]
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 2 accessions.
- Accession No. 2696-005-01, Marilyn Couture papers, 1975-1976
- Accession No. 2696-005-02, Marilyn Couture papers, 1978
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 2696-005-01: Marilyn Couture papers, 1975-1976Return to Top
Scope and Content: Field notes, tapes, films, slides of work with Burns Paiute Indians; 1975-1976.
Documents Ms. Couture's research as a Jacobs Fund grand recipient, 1976.
- Series 1, List of deposited materials
- Series 2, Film Reels
- Series 3, Microfiche
- Series 4, Audio Cassettes
- Series 5, Color Slides
Physical/Technical Access: Records stored offsite; advanced notice required for use.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Records stored offsite; advanced notice required for use.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
Acquisition Info: Marilyn Couture, 1977-04-08
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Series 1: List of deposited materials |
1975-1976 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1 | 2696-005-01 | List of deposited materials (reels, tapes,
slides)
Scope and Content: Memo listing the materials contributing to the Jacobs Research
Fund collection; general information regarding slides of Burns Northern
Paiute
|
1975-1976 |
Series 2: Film Reels |
1975-1976 | ||
item | |||
Reel 1 | Root Digging at Pine Creek Root Camp 1 super 8mm reel
Scope and Content: Burns Paiute Indians
General Notes: Super 8mm, Color, Silent, 400'
|
May 1976 | |
Reel 2 | High Rock Huckleberry Trip 1 super 8mm reel
Scope and Content: Burns Paiute Indians
General Notes: Super 8mm, Color, Silent, 200'
|
August 1976 | |
Reel 3 | Couture Film Reel 3 1 super 8mm reel
Scope and Content: Burns Paiute Indians
General Notes: Super 8mm, Color, Silent, 75'
|
1976 | |
Series 3: Microfiche |
1975-1976 | ||
Journal and field notes of work with Burns Northern
Paiute Indians 1 microfiche
Scope and Content: handwritten field notes
General Notes: negative
|
1975-1976 | ||
Series 4: Audio Cassettes |
1975-1976 | ||
Huckleberrying in High Rock / Pine Creek Root
Camp 1 audio cassette
Scope and Content: Side A accompanies the Super 8 film of Huckleberrying at High
Rock; Side B accompanies the super 8 film of Root digging
|
1976 | ||
Nepa and Emma 1 audio cassette
|
September 11, 1975 | ||
Series 5: Color Slides |
1900-1976 | ||
Subseries A: Early photos of Burns Paiute Indians |
1900-1975 | ||
item | |||
1 | Burns Paiute 1 color slide
|
1900 | |
2 | Captain Louie Family 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
3: Burns Paiute Powwow 1 color slide
|
1946 | ||
item | |||
4 | Burns Paiute Powwow 1 color slide
|
1946 | |
5 | Burns Paiute Christmas Party 1 color slide
|
1960 | |
Subseries B: Harney County, Oregon Sites |
1975-1976 | ||
item | |||
6 | Wright's Point 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
7 | The Narrows at Malheur Lake 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
8 | Fort Harney Historical Site 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
Subseries C: Pine Creek Root Camp |
1975-1976 | ||
item | |||
9 | Burns Paiute Root Camp 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
10 | Burns Paiute Root Camp 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
11 | Abandoned Camp site 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
12 | Outhouse 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
13 | Marian Louie, Theresa, and Cathy 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
14 | Allium sp., Lomatium cous (cuga) 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
15 | Emma, Nepa, Marian L. 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
16 | Perideridia bolanderi yampa 1 color slide
|
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17 | Allium sp. 1 color slide
|
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18 | Marian Louie, bitterroot, Lewisia
rediviva 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
19 | Marian Louie and Allium sp. 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
20 | Emma Fox and Bitterroot 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
21 | Artemisia tridentata 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
22 | Lomatium canbyi caua-cuga 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
23 | Lomatium nudicaule (wild celery) 1 color slide
|
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24 | Juniperus occidentalis 1 color slide
|
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25 | Digging stick, Bitterroot 1 color slide
|
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26 | Rootcamp digging sticks 1 color slide
|
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27 | Marian Louie 1 color slide
|
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28 | Zygadenus Venenosus 1 color slide
|
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29 | Nepa 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
30 | Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Rabbit brush 1 color slide
|
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31 | Balsamorhiza hookeri Nutt 1 color slide
|
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32 | "Elk hide scraper" 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
33 | Achillea millefolium 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
34 | Headstone ormarker 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
35 | Fritallaria pudica, Trifolium
macrocephalum 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
36 | Juniper 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
37 | Lewisia redivivia 1 color slide
|
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38 | Perideridia bolanderi "yampa" 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
39 | Cammasia quamash 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
40 | Burns Paiute peeling roots 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
41 | Burns Paiute peeling roots 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
42 | Root peelings 1 color slide
|
May 1975 | |
43 | Emma washing roots 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
44 | Nepa and Emma washing roots at Rootcamp 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
Subseries D: Plants from other sites |
1975-1976 | ||
item | |||
45 | Typha latifolia "Cattails" 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
46 | Sisymbrium sophia 1 color slide
|
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47 | Oryzopsis hymenoides, Indian Rice Grass 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
48 | Field of Cammasia quamash 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
49 | Scirpus validus 1 color slide
|
May 1976 | |
50 | Collected Giant Wild Rye; Elymus
cinereus 1 color slide
|
1975 | |
Subseries E: Ribes aureum from Silvies River bank |
1976 | ||
item | |||
51 | Ribes aureum 1 color slide
|
July 1976 | |
52 | Marian Louie next to Ribes aureum 1 color slide
|
July 1976 | |
53 | Marian Louie next to Ribes aureum 1 color slide
|
July 1976 | |
54 | Marian Louie picking Ribes aureum 1 color slide
|
July 1976 | |
55 | Ribes aureum, goldencurrent 1 color slide
|
July 1976 | |
Subseries F: Waáda (Sueda depresa) from Saddle Butte |
1975 | ||
item | |||
56 | Waáda - Sueda depressa 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
57 | Waáda 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
58 | Waáda - Sueda depressa 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
59 | Waáda - Sueda depressa 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
60 | Waáda debris collected 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
61 | Waáda - Sueda depressa 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
62 | Waáda - Sueda depressa 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
63 | Sueda depressa 1 color slide
|
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Subseries G: Huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum) at High
Rock |
1976 | ||
item | |||
64 | High Rock trailhead 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
65 | Huckleberrying 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
66 | Emma and Nepa 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
67 | Huckleberrying 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
68 | Foraging for Huckleberries 1 color slide
|
September 1976 | |
69 | Foraging for Huckleberries 1 color slide
|
September 1976 | |
70 | Huckleberries 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
71 | Huckleberrying 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
72 | Picking Huckleberries 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
73 | Huckleberries in bucket 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
74 | Huckleberries 1 color slide
|
August 1976 | |
Subseries H: Chokecherries (Prunis virginiana demissa) |
1975 | ||
item | |||
75 | prunus virginiana - chokecherries 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
76 | Nepa grinding chokecherries 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
77 | Chokecherries and prehistoric milling stones
1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
78 | Chokecherry cake 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
79 | Chokecherry cakes and prehistoric milling
stones 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
Subseries I: Buckberries (Shepherdia sp.) |
1975 | ||
item | |||
80 | Marian Louie next to buckberries (shepherdia
argenta) 1 color slide
|
September 1975 | |
81 | Buckberries close up (shepherdia
argenta) 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
Subseries J: Willow from Silvies River, cradleboard and
bow |
1975-1976 | ||
item | |||
82 | Silvies river and willows (Salix sp.) 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
83 | Marian Louie with cradle 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
84 | Marian Louie and cradle manufacturing 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
85 | Marian Louie and cradle manufacturing 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
86 | Marian Louie and cradle manufacturing 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
87 | Earl Louie with drum foundation, Marian Louie with
cradle manufacturing 1 color slide
|
April 1976 | |
88 | Marian Louie 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
89 | Marian Louie 1 color slide
|
July 1976 | |
90 | Earl Louie holding bow 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
91 | Earl Louie holding bow 1 color slide
|
November 1975 | |
Subseries K: Burns Paiute Cemetary "Henwas" |
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item | |||
92 | Henwa 1 color slide
|
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93 | Henwa 1 color slide
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94 | Henwa 1 color slide
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Accession No. 2696-005-02: Marilyn Couture papers, 1978Return to Top
Scope and Content: Thesis, "Recent and Contemporary Foraging Practices of the Harney Valley Paiute", Portland State University, 1978.
Films and cassette are on the same subject.
Physical/Technical Access: Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
Acquisition Info: Marilyn D. Couture, 1980-01-10
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | item | ||
1 | Reel 4 | Pine Creek Root Camp 1 super 8mm reel
Scope and Content: Burns Paiute Indians
General Notes: Super 8mm, Color, Silent, 200'
|
1977 |
1 | Reel 5 | Silvies River Chokecherries 1 super 8mm reel
Scope and Content: Burns Paiute Indians
General Notes: Super 8mm, Color, Silent, 100'
|
1977 |
1 | Reel 6 | Hanney City Parade 1 super 8mm reel
Scope and Content: Burns Paiute Indians
General Notes: Super 8mm, Color, Silent, 200'
|
1977 |
Accession | |||
1 | 2696-005-02 | Silvies River Chokecherries / Pine Creek Root Camp /
Harney County Parade 1 audio cassette
Scope and Content: Silvies River Chokecherries (0:00-5:00); Pine Creek Root Camp
(5:00-15:00); Harney County Parade (15:00-20:00)
|
1977 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/2 | 2696-005-02 | Thesis, "Recent and Contemporary Foraging Practices of
the Harvey Valley Paiute"
Scope and Content: Submitted to the department of Anthropology at Portland State
University; 132 pages
|
1978 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Couture, Marilyn (creator)
Corporate Names
- Jacobs Research Fund (creator)