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.]
An outside photograph of a Native American woman posing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop. She has been identified as Ruth Coyote. She is standing on a round flat coiled cedar root mat that is lying on a Pendleton blanket. To the right of the backdrop is a wooden walkway. She has her hair in braids and is wearing a cornhusk hat with a "v-shaped" geometric design. She is dressed in a fringed, short-sleeved, beaded buckskin dress. Beads are attached to the fringes on her shirtsleeves, knee and hem areas. There are rows of decorative beads that extend from her shoulders down the front of her dress. She is wearing a necklace and a choker. She has bracelets on both arms and an armband showing on her right arm. She has a beaded belt that has a square geometric design. She is holding a beaded bag in her right hand that has the design of a deer. From under her dress can be seen leggings and beaded moccasins., Umatilla Maiden [Ruth Coyote, Cayuse woman. She wears a beaded buckskin dress with dangles, bear claw necklace, cornhusk hat, beaded moccasins, and holds bag with deer design. Moorhouse yard.]
