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.
Two Native American children, both are wearing regalia, both have beaded necklaces. One is wearing a beaded braclet, the other earrings. They are outside and it appears to be autumn with leaves on the ground.
A Native American woman, identified as Rosa Paul of the Walla Wall tribe, stands to the left of a large tipi. She has on a long fringed leather dress which is decorated across the shoulders. She is wearing a basket hat on her head. It has woven geometric designs. Rosa Paul has long braids. She is wearing a cradleboard on her back. There is an infant in the cradleboard. Behind Rosa Paul there is a log and a pile of sacks and some cloth on the ground. The cloth is decorated with a geometic design. One of the sacks appears to have potatoes in it. Against the tipi are some cloth or bags and two metal pots or bowls. The tipi is covered with woven Tule mats. The entrance is covered with a piece of cloth.
A collection of items identified as "Lee Moorhouse collection of Indian costumes and artifacts" is grouped on the board-and-batten porch of a house. Flanked by two lattice-work columns, most of the items are baskets with geometric designs, along with a few pieces of pottery, also with geometric designs. Baskets are piled up to half-hide the window, with its four narrow lead-lights, and spill out past the low porch to the ground. In the center back hang two beaded dresses and what looks like part of a cradleboard. A beaded bag hangs on the left column, and baskets hang on the other. In the left back corner of the porch is a strikingly bold geometrically patterned textile, with some tall sticks propped up behind it.
A Native American man, identified as Wa-tis-te-me-he of the Cayuse Tribe, is stading in front of a blanket backdrop. He has long grey hair, that hangs down over his shoulders, and is wearing several beaded loop necklaces. He is wearing a suede leather coat that has buttons. The jacket has long fringe around the upper arms and along the back of the sleeves and has short fringe around the collar, the cuffs, the hem, and the placket. Some of the fringe areas have beads. The man is also wearing a cloth shirt and has a blanket wrapped around his waist. The blanket backdrop is set up in front of a lattice fence.
A tipi stands in the background among trees. It is foggy, there are puddles of water on the ground and small amounts of snow. A wooden object is partly visible in the foreground on the left.
A Native American woman stands in front of a canvas tipi. The woman is wearing a cloth dress, with a woven blanket draped around her. One foot is visible and it can be seen she is wearing a plain moccasin. The dress cloth is a floral pattern; the blanket is striped with wavy lines, and has fringe on all four sides. The woman is wearing a beaded necklace and shell earrings, and has two long braids. A young girl wearing a long dress stands in the doorway of the tipi, but her image is blurry as she must have turned just as the photo was shot. A second tipi is partially visible to the right side, behind the front tipi. Both tipis are shaded by the tall deciduous trees behind them.
A Native American man, identified as Sequyena, is standing in a clearing with a horse. He is wearing a horned headdress with eagle feathers. He is also wearing blankets wrapped around his shoulders. He is carrying a staff in his right hand. The horse has a saddle blanket and blanket strips laid atop it.
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.
A Native American man and woman are standing in the middle of a campsite, facing each other and holding hands. The man, identified as Chief No Shirt, is wearing cloth pants, a cloth shirt, and a hat. His hair is long. The woman is wearing a cloth dress and has a shawl with fringe draped over her shoulders. There are three tipis visible in the image. The two larger ones, to the left and right, are covered with canvas with tule mats around the top area. The third tipi is covered in canvas and is smaller and set back from the other two. The tipi on the left has some poles lashed around the outside. Next to this tipi is a small wooden structure or platform that is covered with some animal hides. There is a similar structure near the smaller tipi. The campsite is in a clearing of bare ground with a few sage bushes and some patches of snow. In the backgound is more snow and deciduous trees and bushes.