PH036_6203 Lee Moorhouse photographs
- Title
- PH036_6203 Lee Moorhouse photographs
- LC Subject
- Indians of North America Knives Pipes (Smoking) Daggers & swords Blankets Cradleboards Bags Moccasins Headdresses Feathers, Eagle Hides and skins Brooms and brushes Braids (Hairdressing) Rifles Antiquities Indian women indoor photographs
- Local Collection ID
- PH036 / A82
- Repository
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Alternative
- Lee Moorhouse collection of Indian costumes and artifacts Lee Moorhouse collection of Indian costumes and artifacts.
- Photographer
- Moorhouse, Thomas Leander, 1850-1926
- Description
- A Native American woman is seated inside on the floor. She is holding a pipe in each hand, wearing a feathered headdress, and has a blanket with geometric designs draped over her lap. Her hair is tied in two long braids. Various items, including swords, knives, cradleboards, moccassins, bags, hair ties, and a rifle, are hung on the wall behind the woman.
- Condition Of Source
- discoloration; flaking;
- Tribal Notes
- An interior photograph of an unidentified white woman sitting in front of a collection of objects that Major Moorhouse has collected over the years. Some of these objects have appeared in many of Moorhouse photographs. The woman is wearing a beaded buckskin shirt wrapped in a wool blanket and has a single trailor bonnet. Next to her on the floor is a wooden box. In the background are many items hanging on the wall. From beaded cradleboard, cornhusk bag, cornhusk hat, bow, yarn belt, many different moccasins, rifle, beaded pipe bags and a smoked buckskin that has been painted. There are two posters: one of them has on top of the poster nine knives and five different kinds of feathers. On the top of the top of the photograph are a horsehair bridle and a couple of swords with scabbards.
- Ethnographic Term
- hair bands
- Tribal Classes
- Interior Photograph; Person; Regalia; Head Dress; Weaponry; Moorhouse Props;
- Tribal Terms
- Knife; Feathers, Eagle; Cradleboard; Poster; Moccasins; Bag, Beaded; Coat, Buckskin; Ermines; Sword; Buckskin, Smoked Painted; Bridle, Horse Hair; Bow; Rifle; Belt, Yarn; Hat, Cornhusk; Bag, Cornhusk; Snake Skin; Legging, Woman's; Pipe; Pipe, Hatchet Style; Shirt, Buckskin; Bonnet, Single Trailor; Blanket; Box; Necklace; Bag, Pipe;
- Date
- 1888/1916
- Identifier
- PH036_6203
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Local Collection Name
- Moorhouse (Major Lee) Photographs
- Series Name
- Series I: Glass Plate Negatives
- 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 Width
- 671 pixels
- Image Height
- 875 pixels
- Image Resolution
- 125 dpi
- Color Space
- 24 bit - RGB - sRGB IEC61966-2.1
