Ruth Coyote and Papoose Cayuse tribe

Title: Ruth Coyote and Papoose Cayuse tribe
LC Subject: Indian women Infants Cradleboards Blankets Braids (Hairdressing) Shawls Hats Dress, Cloth Cayuse Indians Appliqué Beads Floral decorations Coyote, Ruth outdoor photographs
Local Collection ID: PH036 / A82
Repository: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Alternative: Ruth Coyote, Cayuse Indian, with infant in cradle Ruth Coyote, Cayuse Indian, with infant in cradle.
Tribal Title: Ruth Coyote and child
Photographer: Moorhouse, Thomas Leander, 1850-1926
Description: A Native American woman, identified as Ruth Coyote of the Cayuse tribe, stands supporting a cradleboard on her right. In the cradleboard, laced up to its neck, is an infant wearing a frilled cap. The baby's head is supported by a headrest. The top of the cradleboard is decorated with beads and a stylized floral applique. Ruth Coyote is wearing a plain dress with a dark and light striped collar. She is wrapped in a plaid shawl. Her hair is braided and tied with ribbons. The backdrop is a light blanket with stripes at each end. Another blanket with geometric designs is at the bottom of the photograph.
Condition Of Source: flaking
Tribal Notes: An outside photograph of a young woman dressed in her regalia holding a child in a beaded cradleboard. She has been identified as Ruth Coyote and the child is unidentified. She is wearing a wing dress with a shawl wrapped around her left shoulder and under her right arm. She is holding in her right arm a child in a floral beaded cradleboard with a loop necklace on the front of the child. The child looks as if it is asleep. The child is sitting on a wool blanket on top of an unidentified object. They are in front of a blanket backdrop that is tacked down on to a wooden frame in front of a wooden fence. Writing on the photograph is at her knees "Ruth Coyote and Papoose Cayuse Tribe Maj. Moorhouse".
Tribal Classes: Outside Photograph; People; Regalia;
Tribal Terms: Woman; Wing Dress; Necklace; Shawl; Baby; Cradleboard, Beaded-Floral; Necklace, Loop; Wool, Blanket; Blanket, Backdrop; Fence;
Date: 1897/1920
Identifier: PH036_4392
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: 8.02 X 9.94 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: 711 pixels
Image Height: 875 pixels
Image Resolution: 125 dpi
Color Space: 24 bit - RGB - sRGB IEC61966-2.1