Cayuse Tribe

Title: Cayuse Tribe
LC Subject: Indians of North America Cayuse Indians Women Blankets Braids (Hairdressing) Earrings Belt, Leather Euro-American clothing Bags Necklaces Shawls Eat-no-meat outdoor photographs
Local Collection ID: PH036 / A82
Repository: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Alternative: Eat-no-meat, Cayuse Indian girl, in costume Eat-no-meat, Cayuse Indian girl, in costume.
Photographer: Moorhouse, Thomas Leander, 1850-1926
Description: A Native American women, identified as Eat-no-meat and a member of the Cayuse Tribe, is standing outside in front of a blanket. She is wearing a Euro-American style dress, a necklace, a leather belt, earrings, and a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. Her hair has been tied into braids. She is carrying a bag in her left hand. The name is probably a translation of her Indian name; tribal members are attempting to verify her name.
Condition Of Source: scratching;
Tribal Notes: An outside photograph of a woman dressed in her regalia standing in front of a blanket backdrop. She is wearing a wing dress, beaded leather belt with a beaded side drop which is in the front. In her right hand she is holding a cornhusk bag with a geometric design and a quirt which is made of an Elk horn with leather attached to the end of the horn. She has a Shawl around her shoulders. She is standing in front of a blanket back drop which is in front of a fence. Writing on the photograph is in the lower left side of the photograph "Cayuse Tribe Maj. Moorhouse."
Tribal Classes: Outside Photograph; Person; Regalia;
Tribal Terms: Woman; Wing dress; Necklace; Belt, Leather-beaded, Side drop, beaded; Bag, Cornhusk; Quirt; Shawl; Choker; Earring; Backdrop, Blanket; Fence;
Date: 1897/1920
Identifier: PH036_4296
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: 8.14 X 10.02 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: 706 pixels
Image Height: 875 pixels
Image Resolution: 125 dpi
Color Space: 24 bit - RGB - sRGB IEC61966-2.1