A young Cayuse woman named Ku-mas-sag sits outdoors in autumn or winter on a striped woolen blanket laid on the leaf-strewn ground. Her long hair is braided and she wears a hat shaped like a truncated cone with beading or quilling on it in a geometric design; a western-style women's broadbrimmed hat with scarf and feather accessorizing it lies on the blanket at her side. One foot is outstretched, showing a legging with a floral design. She appears to be holding a buckskin purse or bag which, like her dress, is fringed. She wears a cloth long-sleeved under-shirt, belt, bracelets, and earrings, and around her neck appears to be a choker-style necklace or fastening for the short cape that covers her shoulders. The cape and top of her dress have beading or quilling in geometric block designs.
A Native American woman is sitting on the bank of a river, located on the Umatilla Reservation. She has a blanket wrapped snugly around her. In the clearing behind the woman there is a canvas tipi, two piles of sticks, and a deer hide slung over a stick that is suspended across two trees. In the background there are tall, deciduous trees and dense shrubbery. In the foreground is the river with some trees emerging from it. The surface of the river is smooth and glassy and perfectly reflects the woman, the tent and trees from the backgound.
A Native American woman, identified as Anna Kash-Kash of the Cayuse tribe, is standing outside in front of a backdrop. She is wearing a cornhusk hat, shell earrings, moccasins, a choker, a necklace, a beaded belt, and a beaded buckskin dress. In her right hand, she is holding a beaded bag with a geometric design. She is standing on a round floor mat. A Pendleton blanket is underneath the mat. A lattice-work fence is to the right.
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.
An interior photograph of an older Native American man posing in front of a cloth or canvas backdrop. The photographer has identified the man as Som-Kin. He is wearing a flat-brimmed cowboy hat held in place with a braided string or cord tied under his chin. His hair is unbound. He is dressed in a cloth shirt, over which is a cloth or wool vest, a buckskin coat, with a scarf around his neck. The buckskin coat is fringed around the shoulders, end of sleeves, collar edge and coat seams. On the left side of the vest is a badge with the title, "US Indian Police." Attached to a vest button below the badge is a pocket watch chain.
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 Cayuse Indian girls wearing necklaces, earrings, shawls, and plain moccasins sit in front of a large tree trunk. One girl sits with a cornhusk bag with a geometric motif displayed prominently on her lap.
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.
An outdoor photograph of a Native American woman identified as Rosa Paul. Her back is to the camera; she is facing a frame-hung blanket backdrop, and standing on a Pendleton blanket. She has braided hair and is wearing a cornhusk hat with geometric designs. Her dress is buckskin, with extensive beading on the top and around her waist. The end of her right sleeve and bottom of her dress is fringed. She appears to be holding a bag in front of her. On her back she is carrying a baby in a cradleboard. The cradleboard exhibits a wooden, stick-type, circular top frame, with the bottom half covered in two-tone leather that is laced down the middle. In the background is a building; part of a stairway is visable to the left of the backdrop.