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Description: A Native American man, identified incorrectly as Bones of the Palouse tribe, stands on a mat in front of a backdrop. He wears Native American clothing, including a fur hair wrap, choker, bracelet, arm bands, necklaces, shirt, leggings, moccasins, and breechcloth. The man stands in profile to the camera. In his right hand he holds a piece of fabric, possibly a handkerchief. His left hand is raised to his brow. On the ground at his feet is a Euro-American style hat. Tribal members have identified him as Peter Gibbon of the Cayuse tribe.

Description: A Native American man and woman sitting in front of a blanket hanging from a latticework fence. Both wear necklaces. The woman's hair is braided, she is wearing a headband, has a blanket draped around her and holds a bag with geometric designs in her right hand. The man has furs hanging from his shoulders and hair. He is wearing armbands decorated with teeth or claws and is holding a shawl. There is a blanket in his lap. He has been identified by tribal members as Peter Gibbon of the Cayuse tribe.

Description: An outside photograph of two Native American women posing in front of a plain blanket backdrop. They are standing on a round flat coiled cedar root mat that is on a Pendleton blanket. To the right of the backdrop is a wooden walkway. In the background are deciduous trees and the hazy outlines of miscellaneous buildings. Both women have their hair in braids and are wearing cornhusk hats with a "v-shaped" geometric design. The woman on the pair's left has been identified as Ruth Coyote; she is dressed in a fringed, short-sleeve, beaded buckskin dress. Decorative beads are attached to the fringes on her shirtsleeves, knee and hem areas. She is wearing a necklace and a choker. She has bracelets on both arms and an armband on her left arm. She has a beaded belt and is holding a beaded bag in her left hand with the design of a deer. From under her dress can be seen leggings and beaded moccasins. The woman on the right is wearing circular earrings, and a cloth dress with decorative beads that extend below her waist. There are beads on her shoulders and bells at the end of her three-quarter length sleeves. She has a wide beaded belt. She has a bracelet on her right wrist and is holding a cornhusk bag in her right hand. She has beaded moccasins and may have bells at the hem of her dress., 'Umatilla Belles.' Billy Barnhart's camp on the Umatilla. [Lucy Luton and Ruth Coyote, Cayuse tribal women.]

Description: A Native American man, identified as Chief Umapine of the Cayuse Tribe, is seated in front of a white cloth backdrop. He is dressed in a dark colored cloth shirt, with the collar and cuffs buttoned. The shirt is Euro-American style, and adorned with several Native American articles. He is wearing a beaded bandoleer, several beaded loop necklaces, and a fur armband with a gem cameo. He has another fur item draped over one arm. His hair is long, some pulled back behind his head and some pulled forward and secured with hair ties on each side of his head. One hair tie is visible and has a portrait cameo; the other hair tie or wrap is not visible, but has strips of fur hanging down over his shoulder. He has one feather stuck in the back of his hair., Chief Umapine—Cayuse tribe [In regalia in Moorhouse yard. 'Copyright 1990 by Lee Moorhouse' printed on photo.]

Description: An outside photograph of an older Native American man posing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop draped over a wall. He has been identified as Five Crows, and is dressed in regalia. His hair is unbound with a single feather showing in the back. There is a small hoop earring visible in his right ear. He is dressed in a cloth shirt, over which are a choker, loop necklace, and hairbone bandoleer. Over both shirtsleeves are wide metal armbands. In his right hand he is holding a knife, and in his left hand he is holding a pipe bowl. Hanging from his left arm is a leather belt with a knife scabbard attached. He has a Pendleton blanket wrapped around his waist.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Francis Lincoln of the Cayuse Tribe, is sitting in front of a tipi, dressed in full regalia. He is wearing a headdress with feathers, cloth pants made from a blanket, and a plaid, fringed breechcloth. He has beaded moccasins, leather straps with bells wrapped around his calves and ankles, and fur arm bands with feathers and tassles. He has a beaded belt around his waist and a fur bandoleer with beaded decorations. He is wearing a beaded choker and his hair is tied into two long plaits. He is holding a stick or rod covered with fur and adorned with feathers. His chair and the ground around it are covered by two Pendleton blankets. There are a couple of objects placed on the blankets near his feet. The tipi fills up most of the background in this image.

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