The Earth is Our Home
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1994.3.2
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Patapoff, Elizabeth
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content: Elizabeth Patapoff videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (29 minutes, color sound; VHS)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film, produced in cooperation with the Burns Paiute tribe of southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada, documents their lifeways in an arid environment. A seasonal cycle is followed showing adaptation to a regional ecology through use of plants and animals as well as food preparation and manufacturing of articles used for subsistence. Women relate memories of former times; demonstrate making twined and coiled baskets, cordage for nets, a duck decoy, a rabbitskin robe, and a cattail shelter; collect foods such as bitterroot and camus; and make cakes from berries.