Search Results

Description: A Native American woman, identified as Lacy Luton of the Cayuse tribe, stands in front of a backdrop in costume. She wears a hat with a geometric motif, a beaded cloth dress, a wide belt with a striped design, a sash with a geometric motif, leggings with a geometric motif, and moccasins. She wears her hair in braids and wears jewelry, including a choker and a bracelet. In her right hand she holds a beaded bag or handbag with a geometric motif. In her left hand she holds a bow and an arrow. She stands on a round mat on a blanket with a geometric motif.

Description: Two young Native American girls are sitting on the bank of a pond or stream. The location is identified as being near Cayuse Station. The older girl is holding the younger girl in front of her. Only her head, her braids, the collar and shoulders of her cloth dress, and the bottom of one moccasin are visible. The younger child is wrapped in a small blanket or shawl, has a beaded necklace, with a beaded flap or sleeve from her dress visible on one arm. There is a clear bucket or large jar placed next to the girls, with an unidentified object in it. The bank where the girls are sitting is a flat clearing, covered with gravel and rocks, that meets the edge of the water. There is an area on the other side of the water that is also covered with rocks, but is steep, not flat. The rest of the embankment, on both sides of the water, is covered with shrubs and trees., Near Cayuse Station [Cayuse Indian children in regalia by stream.]

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 woman identified as "Mrs. Black Hawk" of the Cayuse tribe stands in front of a tule reed mat tipi. There is snow on the ground and on parts of the tipi. Five poles are visible, and on the left side of the photograph is a wooden ladder made of poles and boards. The canvas entry of the tipi is tied back and the woman stands with her feet inside, slightly leaning out. Her long dark hair hangs below her waist in two braids; she wears a choker necklace, and a rounded earring is visible. She wears a long dark cloth wing dress with wide sections of lighter beading that run across the bodice and shoulders and onto the sleeves. A longer sleeve of floral material from a shirt or underdress is visible as she holds up her left hand. Around her waist is a wide beaded belt, and it looks like another beaded belt is hanging from it. In her left hand she holds a strip of material beaded in floral patterns and embellished with a strip of fur which has round medallions or shell discs sewn on at regular intervals. On her right side hangs a multicolored striped and fringed blanket; with her right hand she seems to be holding or pushing aside a dark bag or curtain trimmed with a light floral-patterned material. Propped against a low log or board at the entrance to the tipi are two flat bags beaded with geometric patterns. Under them, and taking up the left foreground of the photo, is a striped blanket.

Description: 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]

Search