A Native American girl, identified as Petints of the Walla Walla tribe, is standing in front of a blanket. She is wearing a Euro-American style dress, plain moccasins, and a bracelet. Her hair is tied in braids tucked behind her ears.
A Native American woman, identified as Sabina Minthorn from the Cayuse Tribe, appears to be sitting in front of a backdrop. She faces the photographer with her hands partly crossed in front of her in her lap, which is where the photo cuts off. Her two long dark braids are tucked into the front of her belt, which has a geometric figure in the middle. She wears a choker necklace and has bracelets on both arms and rings on both hands. The top of her dress has squares of geometric beading, and its sleeves end in fringes. She wears a cloth shirt, or, possibly, underdress, underneath her leather dress. The old style deer tail dress is a dress that has a deer tail on the front and sometimes the back of a dress with beadwork around the tail. As in this photograph its tail is under her chin.
A Native American man, identified as Tots-homa of the Cayuse tribe, is kneeling outside on one knee. He is wearing a single trail bonnet, earrings, a loop necklace, bracelets, and moccasins. He is holding a hatchet-style pipe in his right hand. He is kneeling on a coiled cedar root mat. A Pendleton blanket is underneath the mat. A studio backdrop is behind him.
A young Native American woman reclines on a couch. The couch is covered with a blanket with large geometric designs. The woman is wearing leggings and a dress with beaded fringes and a striped, beaded yoke. She has on bracelets and a headband with a large feather. Her hair is in braids. The wall behind the couch is covered with Native American artifacts. They include a shield, two bows, a fringed buckskin shirt and some other fringed clothing, a long woven sash, three woven bags with geometric designs, an animal pelt, moccasins, two long necklaces, and some unidentified artifacts .
Two Native American children, a boy and a girl, sitting outside on a blanket with a backdrop of hung blankets. The boy with a feather in his hair is wearing leggings, a cloth shirt, a necklace, and moccasins. The girl with feathers in her hair is wearing a Wing dress, a necklace, moccasins, and a bracelet.
Four Native American men and a Native American woman stand in front of three tipis. The people are identified as Dr. Whirlwind, Ta-wa-Toi, Mrs. No-shirt, Chief No-shirt, and Red Elk. The men all wear horned headdresses with ermine hanging from them, and trails of eagle feathers, except for Ta-wa-Toi, who does not seem to have the trail of feathers. The men wear a mix of cloth or buckskin shirts and legwear. Some of the men seem to have blankets wrapped around their legs. All the men wear moccasins and jewelry, including loop necklaces. In their right hands Dr. Whirlwind and Red Elk each hold a staff with eagle feathers attached. Red Elk has a long beaded and furred belt, decorated with medals or buttons, draped over his left arm. Ta-wa-Toi is holding the fur of an animal in front of himself; the pelt includes the fur from the animal's tail, legs, and head. Chief No-shirt seems to be holding up some weaving. Mrs. No-shirt stands next to him. Her dark hair in braids; she is draped in a geometrically-beaded skin and seems to be wearing a fringed buckskin dress and a bracelet. She too wears moccasins. She holds a geometrically-beaded flat bag in front of herself. The caption on the photograph says "Umatilla Reservation July 4, 1903".
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 group of Native Americans, including five men and two women, are posing in two rows in front of a canvas lodge. The men are standing shoulder to shoulder in the back row. The man on the far left is wearing a horned headdress, a necklace, a blanket around his legs, and a buckskin shirt. He is holding a brush and other unidentified items. The second man from the left is wearing a shirt, earrings, bracelets, a necklace, bells on his legs, and a blanket strip around his waist. He is holding a brush in his hands. The man in the middle is wearing a hat, a choker, a Euro-American shirt, and a strip of fur around his neck. The second man from the right is wearing a hat, arm bands, a necklace, a Euro-American shirt, and a blanket around his waist. The man on the far right is wearing a Euro-American shirt, a choker, a necklace, arm bands, a sash, a strip of fur around his waist, a blanket strip around his waist, and bells attached to his ankles. His hair is tied into two braids. Two of the men are identified as Paul Showaway and Francis Lincoln of the Umatilla tribe. The two women are seated on blankets in the front row. The woman on the left is wearing a cornhusk hat, earrings, a necklace, and a shirt with hanging beads. Her hair is tied into two braids. A beaded item lays on the ground in front of her. A feathered headdress is on the ground to the left of her. The woman on the right is wearing earrings, a choker, and a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. A Euro-American dress is visible underneath the blanket. Her hair is tied into two braids. A beaded item with a floral design is on the ground in front of her. A feathered headdress is on the ground to the right of her. A few trees are visible in the background behind the canvas lodge.