Seven Indians, including Parson Motanic, another man, three women, a child and a baby, ride in a Hudson Automobile down a street in town. Parson Motanic and the other man wear buckskin shirts and headdresses, one of which is horned. The women wear head scarves.
A Native American man, identified as Sequyena, is standing in a clearing with a horse. He is wearing a horned headdress with eagle feathers. He is also wearing blankets wrapped around his shoulders. He is carrying a staff in his right hand. The horse has a saddle blanket and blanket strips laid atop it.
A Native American man standing outside against a black fabric backdrop hung from the side of a building. He is wearing a horned and feathered headdress, a buckskin shirt, geometrically-beaded moccasins, a necklace, and a blanket wrapped around his legs. He is holding an unidentified object in his left hand with hair or fur on the end of it.
A Native American man, identified as Parson Motanic, is standing outside. He is wearing a horned headdress with eagle feathers, a necklace, a vest, and moccasins. He is holding a hatchet in his hands. Various furs and blanket strips are laid out around and behind Parson Motanic. All of the items depicted are the property of the Motanic family, rather than photographer's props.
Three Native American men, identified as Young Chief, Whirlwind, and Chief No-shirt, are mounted on dark-colored horses on a plain in front of four tipis. Each man carries a staff with ermine, eagle feathers, or other decoration, and Young Chief holds a second, shorter staff with long fringe. All wear headdresses with ermine hanging down, and eagle feather trails, and two have horned headdresses. The men wear beaded moccasins and beaded pants. One wears a cloth vest, one a cloth shirt, and one a buckskin shirt. The pants of two men are visible and seem to be cloth with strips of geometric beading. The horses have beaded bridles, martingales, masks, and reins, and Young Chief's horse shook its head as the photo was taken. Chief No-shirt's horse has a striped saddle blanket; the saddle has a long strip of fur hanging down from the saddle horn, nearly to the ground. All men wear jewelry. In the background at the right of the picture, the four tipis are lined up. In the background at the left, other people and part of a horse can be seen, and at the very left it looks as though someone were holding a flag.
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 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.