OFN Eastern Oregon Folklife and Traditional Arts Survey records
Scope and Contents
The Oregon Folklife Network conducted a survey of folklife and traditional arts in five Oregon counties in the eastern Oregon in 2016 and 2017. The Eastern Oregon Folklife and Traditional Arts Survey is one of the several surveys the organization has completed since 2012. This collection contains folklore fieldwork documentation, newsletter articles, and public presentations created in this survey. Fieldwork documentation is in digital file formats and includes 2036 color photographs and 87 interview sound recordings, as well as media logs and artist data sheets, documenting 54 traditional artists, events, and organizations.
Professional folklorists Douglas Manger and Joseph O’Connell completed fieldwork in Baker County, Crook County, Deschutes County, Grant County, Union County, Wallowa County, and Wheeler County. Oregon Folklife Network Director Riki Saltzman and folklore student Brad McMullen participated in selected interviews and contributed fieldwork documentation.
The survey documented the following traditional arts (and artists) associated with regional occupations and avocations related to ranching: ranching (Joe and Roger Pechanec, Ernestine and Roy Critchlow, Pat Dougherty, Janie Tippett); horse training (Kitty Lauman) and horse riding skills (Leroy Twiggs, John Cox, Alice Trindle, Tonya Rosebrook); saddlemaking (Bill Huston, Wink Burgess, Bub Warren) and rawhide braiding (Terri Berthelsen); auctioneering (Ramona Hulick); Western hat shaping (Gene Baldwin), stockdog training (Tom Blasdell); Silversmithing and metalwork (Larry Bacon, Steve Parks, Tim Parks); shoe and bootmaking (DW Frommer); and cowboy poetry and storytelling (Peggy Brennan and Bill Henke, Gaynor Dawson, Dan Cannon, Lonnie Shurtleff).
The survey also documented hunting, fishing, and wildcrafting (Jeff Perin, Dave and Mary Ann Dozer, Cindy Kipcinski and Janis Smith, James Nash and Paul Pagano, Bryan Karolski, James Akenson, Roger Fairfield), as well as woodworking and musical instrument making (Don Rowe, Ed Beacham, Preston Thompson, Steve Campbell, Dave Traylor).
Photographs include portraits of artists, as well as images of arts and crafts, tools and supplies, process and techniques, and workshops and workrooms. Artist data sheets completed by folklorists include artist biographical data and contact information, as well as a description of each artist's tradition and how it was learned.
Dates
- Creation: 2016
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public.
Collection may be used Special Collections & University Archives.
Collection materials may be requested by identifier at the collection, series, or subseries level.
Conditions Governing Use note
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon’s statewide folklife program and includes partners at state and local levels that document, support, and celebrate traditions arts and tradition bearers in Oregon. The Oregon Folklife Network is based at the University of Oregon and produces publications, museum exhibits, public events, folklife fieldwork, and documentary collections. Since 2012, it has been engaged in a survey of folk and traditional arts and artists in Oregon, the resulting archival materials held at The University of Oregon’s Library and Special Collections.
Statewide supporters are the Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon State Library, and Oregon Heritage Commission. Community partners include Oregon Tribes, community-based cultural organizations, museums, regional cultural alliances, local arts agencies, K12 schools, universities and colleges, and public libraries. The Oregon Folklife Network succeeds the Oregon Folklife Program, which provided statewide services supporting folklife and traditional arts in Oregon from 1977 to 2009 at the Oregon Arts Commission, next at Lewis and Clark College, and then at the Oregon Historical Society.
Extent
2371 digital file(s)
Abstract
The Oregon Folklife Network is Oregon's folklife and traditional arts program, and includes culture and heritage partners that operate on state and local levels to document, support, and celebrate Oregon's cultural traditions and tradition bearers. The collection comprises folklore fieldwork documentation, newsletter articles, and public presentations created by the Oregon Folklife Network and professional folklorists Douglas Manger and Joseph O'Connell in a survey of folk and traditional arts in seven counties in eastern Oregon in 2016. Fieldwork documentation is in digital file formats and includes 2036 color photographs and 87 interview sound recordings, as well as media logs and artist data sheets, documenting 54 traditional artists, events, and organizations in Baker County, Crook County, Deschutes County, Grant County, Union County, Wallowa County, and Wheeler County. Photographs include portraits of artists, and images of arts and crafts, tools and materials, processes and techniques, and workshops.
Arrangement note
Collection is organized into series by fieldworker and arranged chronologically by interview date.
Materials for each fieldworker are organized by county and artist. Documentation for each artist is arranged by format: texts, photographs, and sound recordings. Texts include media logs for photographs and sound recordings, release forms signed by the artist, final reports, and artist data sheets.
Container List
- Douglas Manger Fieldwork
- Linda Stephenson interview - Gardening and Cookery, April 20, 2016
- DW Frommer interview - Shoe and Bootmaking, April, 21, 2016
- Ramona Hulick interview – Auctioneer, April, 21, 2016
- Loy Sampels interview – Clogging, April 21, 2016
- Tonya Rosebrook interview - Barrel Racing, April 23, 2016
- Kitty Lauman interview - Horse Trainer, April 25, 2016
- Steve Campbell interview - Musical Instrument Making, April 26, 2016
- Dave Gagnon interview - Stone, Brick, and Tile Masonry, May 3, 2016
- Bill Huston interview – Saddlemaking, May 4, 2016
- Terri Berthelsen - Rawhide Braiding, May 5, 2016
- Alice Trindle interview - Horsemanship, May 5, 2016
- Marvin Brisk interview - Horse Drawn Farming, May 7, 2016
- Lonnie Shurtleff interview - Cowboy Balladeer, Poet, Storyteller, May 11, 2016
- James Akenson interview - Traditional Bowhunting, May 12, 2016
- Carol Etchemendy - Spinning and Weaving, May 12, 2016
- Bryan Karolski - Mushroom Harvesting, May 12, 2016
- Cody Jessee interview - Rodeo and Monument Making, May 20, 2016
- Stuart Murdock interview - Native American Hand Craft, April 25, 2016
- Novelen Tavita interview - Polynesian Dance, May 24, 2016
- Tom Blasdell interview - Stockdog Training, April 25, 2016
- Wink Burgess interview - Saddlemaking and Western Art, May 31, 2016
- Bub Warren interview – Saddlemaking, April 25, 2016
- Joseph O’Connell Fieldwork
- Jeff Perin interview - Fly Fishing and River Guiding, April 19, 2016
- Jeff Fairfield interview - Dry Stone Masonry, April 20, 2016
- Don Rowe interview - Woodworking, April 19, 2016
- John Cox interview - Horse Racing and Horse Shoeing, April 21, 2016
- Dave and Mary Ann Dozer interview - Fly Fishing, April 25, 2016
- Ed Beacham interview - Woodworking and Horology, April 25, 2016
- Preston Thompson interview - Luthier, April 22, 2016
- Leroy Twiggs interview - Horse Racing and Training, April 22, 2016
- John and Paige Bruguier interview - Tipi Making, April 23, 2016
- Roger Fairfield interview - Fly Fishing and Bamboo Fly Rods, April 23, 2016
- Gene Baldwin interview - Western Hat Shaping, April 25, 2016
- Peggy Brennan and Bill Henke interview - Cowboy Poetry, May 15, 2016
- Gaynor Dawson interview - Poetry and Cowboy Poetry, April 29, 2016
- Steve Parks interview - Bronze Casting, Sculpture, and Metalwork, April 29 2016
- Larry Bacon interview - Silversmithing, May 2, 2016
- Pat Dougherty interview - Cattle Ranching, May 2, 2016
- James Nash and Paul Pagano interview - Fly Fishing and River Guiding, May 2, 2016
- Tim Parks interview - Bronze Casting and Metalwork, May 2, 2016
- Janie Tippett interview - Cattle Ranching, Foodways, Writers, May 2, 2016
- Cindy Kopcinski and Janis Smith interview - Lapidaries, Thunder eggs, Mining, May 6, 2016
- Betty Woodward interview - Quilting and Water Witching, May 6, 2016
- Ernestine and Roy Critchlow interview - Cattle Ranching, May 7, 2016
- Joe and Roger Pechanec interview - Cattle Ranching and Horse Tack, May 8, 2016
- Dan Cannon interview - Cowboy Poetry and Storytelling, May 9, 2016
- Betty Jo Norton interview – Quilting, May 9, 2016
- Dave Traylor interview - Woodworking, Coffin Making, May 11, 2016
- Grant County Jammers interview - String Band Music, May 15, 2016
Geographic
Topical
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Baker County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Baker County -- Photographs
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Crook County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Crook County -- Photographs
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Deschutes County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Deschutes County -- Photographs
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Grant County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Grant County -- Photographs
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Union County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Union County -- Photographs
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Wallowa County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Wallowa County -- Photographs
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Wheeler County -- Interviews
- folk artists -- Oregon -- Wheeler County -- Photographs
- folklife archives
- Folklore and Folklife
- Title
- Guide to the Oregon Folklife Network Eastern Oregon Folklife and Traditional Arts Survey Records
- Author
- Nathan Georgitis, Eleanore Kohorn
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
