PH036_5012 Lee Moorhouse photographs

Title: PH036_5012 Lee Moorhouse photographs
LC Subject: Indians of North America Men Umatilla Indians Blankets props (object genres) Trees Headdresses Feathers Ermines Pipes (Smoking) Hairstyles outdoor photographs studio portraits Liberty, John
Local Collection ID: PH036 / A82
Repository: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Alternative: John Liberty, Umatilla indian, in feather headress, smoking ceremonial pipe
Tribal Title: John Liberty Umatilla Tribe
Photographer: Moorhouse, Thomas Leander, 1850-1926
Description: This photograph of a Native American man identified as "John Liberty, Umatilla tribe", is set up as if it were a studio portrait, with a dark blanket hanging down behind him as a backdrop. However, over the top of the blanket can be seen treetops and sky. The seated man wears a feathered headdress with ermine and ribbons hanging down the left side over his bare chest to his waist. A geometrically patterned blanket covers his lap from his waist to where the portrait ends at his knees. His right hand grasps a pipe, which is decorated with ribbons. A decorated strip of some material or leather also seems to hang from the pipe; it has pictographs or geometric designs beaded or painted on. The man's dark hair appears to be cut short; most is hiddent beneath the headdress. John Liberty, Umatilla Tribe [Umatilla man, in eagle feather head-dress, with pipe, in Moorhouse yard.]
Condition Of Source: silver mirroring; discoloration; fingerprints; scratching
Tribal Notes: Outdoor photgraph of a man sitting against a blanket backdrop. He is wearing a stand up bonnet made of eagle feathers and ermins. There is a few peices of cloth that hang down from the left side of the bonnet and are resting on the man's left shoulder.
Tribal Classes: Outside Photograph Regalia Person
Tribal Terms: Man Headdress Bonnet, Single Trail Feather, Eagle Blanket, Pendleton Bag, Pipe Pipe Blanket
Date: 1900/1910
Identifier: PH036_5012
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Local Collection Name: Moorhouse (Major Lee) Photographs
Series Name: Series I: Glass Plate Negatives
Box Number: 202
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926) photographs, 1888-1916 Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes
Primary Set: Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926) photographs, 1888-1916
Has Version: Glass-plate negative
Institution: University of Oregon
Note: Joint Project of the University of Oregon Libraries and the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Image Resolution: 125 dpi