A Native American man wearing regalia stands inside a tipi. The man wears a horned headdress, a shirt, a breechcloth, and moccasins. He also wears a necklace and a fur. He holds a smoking pipe. Two other Native Americans recline on blankets near him.
A Native American man and woman, identified as Red Elk and his sister, of the Cayuse Tribe, stand in front of a large tipi. The tipi is made up of layers of tule mats, with some long sticks supporting them on the outside. The man is dressed in a cloth shirt and cloth pants, with a plaid, fringed breechcloth. He is wearing beaded moccasins, a beaded bandoleer, and a beaded belt with a small pouch. His jewelry includes beaded looped necklaces, a beaded choker, and hoop earrings with shells. He is holding an object in each hand. The woman is dressed in a solid colored cloth dress, an underlayer dress, and has a sash around her waist. She has a large shawl draped over one shoulder and wrapped around her waist. The shawl has fringes and some embroidered flowers along the border. She is wearing moccasins, partially obscured by her shadow, and is holding a scarf or bandana in her hand. Her jewelry includes several strands of beaded necklaces and shell earrings. The man's hair is long and pulled back behind his head. The woman's hair is in two long ponytails. The man and woman are each standing on a pendleton blanket. Two more blankets are draped over a rope that circles the the tipi; one of them seems to be covering a doorway. A few objects are displayed on the blankets. There are deciduous trees and shrubs in the background and straw on the ground around the tipi., Red Elk and sister [Cayuse man and woman, in traditional clothing , by tule tipi. On reservation.]
An interior photograph of a Native American man identified as Ti-Car-Nee. He is sitting against a backdrop on a seat covered by a Pendleton blanket. On the left side of the photograph are miscellaneous leggings mixed with other unidentifiable objects. The man is wearing a beaded vest, a neck choker and loop necklace, and has fur wrapped in his hair which hangs down over his vest front. He has beads braided into his hair on his right side. He is wearing what appears to be a metal arm band on each arm. At his waist is a leather garment with beads extending towards the blanket floor. He is wearing beaded moccassins. In his right hand he is holding a hatchet style pipe that has a fur pelt hanging from it., 'Ti-Car-Nee' Walla Walla Tribe [Ti-Car-Nee, Walla Walla Indian, in regalia. In Moorhouse studio]
A Native American woman, identified as We-nix of the Cayuse Indians and sister of Donald McKay, stands in front of a canvas tipi. She is wearing a plain cloth dress, plain moccasins, leggings with a floral design, a head scarf, shell earrings, beaded necklace and bracelet, a ring, and has two long braids. She has one Pendleton blanket draped around her and another one on the ground, under her feet. A large pine tree is all that is visible in the background.