ETHNOLOGIST OF TRIBAL HISTORY
Marriott began her career as a cataloger of book titles and authors at the Muskogee Public Library. This was a service performed manually in the book's inner margin before World War II. She spent most of her time building library collections on local history, and studying the ethnology of Indian tribes of eastern Oklahoma. She studied anthropology at OU, becoming the first graduate of that degree. She became one of Oklahoma's pioneering female anthropologists.
