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Description: An outside photograph of two men: one is a Euro-American and the other a Native American. Both men are standing in front of a multi-layered tule mat tipi. The photographer has identified the Native American man as Poker Jim. He is wearing a cowboy hat and is wrapped in a Pendleton blanket that reaches his ankles. He is holding the reins of a barebacked horse. The Euro-American is wearing a suit and overcoat and has both hands in his coat pockets. He also is wearing a derby hat. There are six visible external poles leaning against the tipi, presumably to hold down the woven mats. To the men's right, leaning against the tipi, is a homemade ladder that appears to be made of similar poles. The background shows a hint of hillside, along with cottonwood trees and a lone pine tree. At the base of the pine tree is a stack of firewood.

Description: A group of eight men stand in a dirt yard. A white frame wooden building is on the right of the photograph; bare trees are in the background. A badge is visible on five of the men. Seven of the men are Native American; one is white. All have been identified as members of the Indian Police Umatilla Agency in 1888. All wear European-American clothing and shoes: felt hats, cloth shirts, jackets, trousers, and coats. Behind the man identified as Wike-Wike is a small dark-and light patterned dog., No. 1 He-yute-se-miliken, 2, Wike-wike, 3, Wa-ta-low-it, 4 Isaiah White, (Umko-kas-kat) 5, Capt. Somkin, 6. Luke Minthorn, 7, Sawattis-kow-kow, 8, B. Coffee, Agent. Indian Police Umatilla Agency, 1888. [Copy neg by Moorhouse.]

Description: An interior photograph of a Native American man posing in front of an unadorned backdrop that may be a Pendleton blanket. The man has been identified as Billie Joshua. He is wearing a flat-brimmed cowboy hat. His hair is braided, with the braid ends unraveling. He is attired in a Euro-American style suit, complete with shirt, button-down vest and jacket, and knotted tie. His head is turned so that he is looking to his right.

Description: A group of European American men and women, identified as the personnel of St. Andrews Roman Catholic Mission School of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, are standing in front of a side of a building. They are arranged in three rows. The women, who are all wearing a nun's habit, are standing in the first two rows with their hands clasped. Rosary beads and crucifix necklaces are visible on some of the women. Seven women are in the front row. Six women are in the second row. Six men are in the back row. The men are all wearing clerical collars. The man on the far left, the third man from the left, and the second man from the right are wearing clerical hats. The third man from the right is wearing a light-colored overcoat. The rest of the men are wearing dark-colored priestly garments. The building appears to be wooden with a stone or concrete foundation. Two doors are directly behind the group. Two windows are visible to the far left and to the far right. Wooden planks, forming a sidewalk, lead away from the group to the bottom right.

Description: 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.

Description: A canal, identified as the Hinkle irrigation canal near Pendleton, Oregon, is flowing through the middle of a flat, open plain of sagebrush. There is a man standing on the edge of the right bank. He is dressed is a long, cloth coat, cloth pants, and a hat.

Description: A man, identified as Donald McKay of the Cayuse tribe, sits on a small log in the woods on the bank of a narrow creek. Many of the branches that frame the photograph are bare, and the ground is littered with leaves. The man's hair is white or gray, and he has a long mustache. He wears European style clothing: a broad-brimmed felt hat, a dark cloth jacket with lapels trimmed in lighter cloth, a checked shirt with cloth cravat, jeans or cloth trousers, and boots. In his left hand he holds a curved walking cane. Behind and to his left are several broad planks of wood that reach like a bridge from the bank of the creek to about two-thirds across the water., [Donald McKay, Cayuse tribal man, in suit, string tie, with cane, sitting by creek.]