Yeeh-Ye

Title: Yeeh-Ye
LC Subject: Men Moccasins Indians of North America props (object genres) mats (floor coverings) Fur--Hair Wraps Pipes (Smoking) Feathers, Eagle Roach, Porcupine roach headdresses chokers Necklaces Shirt, Buckskin Shirt, Buckskin--Beaded Beads Leggings, Buckskin Regalia outdoor photographs Yeeh-ye
Local Collection ID: PH036 / A82
Repository: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Alternative: PH036_4075 Yee-Yee, Umatilla indian, with various costumes and implements, including war bonnet, pipe
Tribal Title: Yeeh-Ye
Photographer: Moorhouse, Thomas Leander, 1850-1926
Description: An outside photograph of a Native American man identified as Yee-ye. He is standing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop hanging from a wooden frame. He is wearing moccasins and standing upon a round flat coil mat that is lying on another blanket on the ground. To the left of the man there is a pipe on the blanket. He is wearing a porcupine roach with one eagle feather on his head. His hair is braided, with fur strips braided into or extending the natural length of his braids. He is wearing a neck choker and a multi-layered loop necklace. He is dressed in a buckskin shirt that has a beaded strip down both sides of his shoulders. The ends of his sleeves and shirt are fringed. He is holding an eagle tail fan, wrapped in leather, in his left hand. The eagle feather has long leather strips decorated in beads. He is wearing a woven plaid cloth strip around his waist, which hangs over buckskin leggings. Yee-ye [Umatilla Indian, with various regalias and implements, and pipe. In Moorhouse yard.]
Condition Of Source: silver mirroring
Tribal Notes: An outside photograph of a tribal member identified as Yeeh-Ye by the photographer. He is standing in front of a blanket used for a backdrop and dressed up in regalia. He is dressed in a buckskin shirt that has a beaded strip down both sides of his shoulders. On the edge of the beaded strips are pieces of hair on both sides of the shirt. He is also wearing buckskin legging with some ermines on both sides. He is holding an eagle tail fan in his left hand. On his head is a porcupine roach with one eagle feather in the roach. He is standing on a wool blanket and on that is a round flat coil mat. On the edge of the blanket is a pipe leaning against the wooden frame that holds up a blanket backdrop. The writing on the photograph is "Yeeh-Ye" and "Major Moorhouse." In the bottom left corner is the number "4075."
Ethnographic Term: fringe
Tribal Classes: Outside Photograph Person Regalia Buildings Moorhouse Props
Tribal Terms: Man Shirt, Buckskin--Beaded Necklace, Loop Leggings, Buckskin Hider, Blanket Ermines Moccasins, Beaded--Geometric Pipe Fan, Eagletail Roach, Porcupine Feather, Eagle Choker Mat, Coiled Ceder Root
Date: 1900/1910
Identifier: PH036_4075
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Local Collection Name: Moorhouse (Major Lee) Photographs
Series Name: Series I: Glass Plate Negatives
Box Number: 162
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