Cayuse Squaws
- Title
- Cayuse Squaws
- LC Subject
- Indians of North America Indian beadwork Blankets Braids (Hairdressing) Cayuse Indians Dress, Cloth Housing Indian women Jewelry Moccasins, Plain Necklaces Earrings Tipis outdoor photographs
- Local Collection ID
- PH036 / A82
- Repository
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Alternative
- Wo-ho-pum, Cause Indian woman Cayuse squaws in front of tipi.
- Photographer
- Moorhouse, Thomas Leander, 1850-1926
- Description
- Two Cayuse Indian women wearing long cotton dresses, plain moccasins and blankets worns as shawls wrapped about their shoulders pose standing next to a tipi. They each wear round earrings and hair styled in long braids.
- Tribal Notes
- An outside photograph of two women standing behind a half Tule mat and canvas tipi. They are dressed in their wing dresses with wool shawls over their shoulders. They are standing on a wool blanket which is behind and next to the tipi. The tipi has Tule mats and canvas. Mixed behind the women are rocks that are holding down the canvas. To the right of the women the Tule mat is broken and falling apart. Writing on the photograph is written in between the two women running up and down "Cayuse Squaws" and "Major Moorhouse."
- Tribal Classes
- Outside Photograph; People; Regalia; Camp Site; Housing;
- Tribal Terms
- Women; Wing Dress; Blanket, Wool; Necklace; Moccasins, Plain; Earring; Tipi; Tule Mat; Canvas; Poles; Brush;
- Date
- 1897/1920
- Identifier
- PH036_4464
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Local Collection Name
- Moorhouse (Major Lee) Photographs
- Series Name
- Series I: Glass Plate Negatives
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Extent
- 6.58 X 8.50 inches
- 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 Width
- 823 pixels
- Image Height
- 1063 pixels
- Image Resolution
- 125 dpi
- Color Space
- 8 bit -- Grayscale -- Gray Gamma 2.2
