Fourteen Native American men on horeback are riding through an encampment. All are wearing some sort of headdress and tribal costume. Some are carrying staffs with feather adornment. The horses have beaded harnesses. They are riding through a meadow edged by a line of trees where people stand watching. There are five tipis spaced along the tree line on the meadow. On the opposite side of the photo is a photographer dressed in European-American clothing and a camera. Some of the people watching are wearing cowboy hats and are wrapped in blankets.
Anna Coyote, a Cayuse Indian woman, sits outside before a backdrop wearing a hat, a beaded dress, leggings, plain moccasins, necklaces, a choker, earrings, belt, and a bracelet and holding a whip and an axe adorned with fur and beadwork.
A Native American woman, possibly misidentified as Rosa Paul of the Cayuse or Walla tribe, stands in front of a tipi, facing the left side of the picture. She is wearing a basket hat and a long fringed dress decorated across the shoulders with geometric designs. At her left side is a woven bag decorated with a stylized tree and birds. On her back is a cradleboard wrapped in a piece of spotted cloth. Behind Rosa Paul is a gate or fence made of brush and poles. In the foreground is a broom. The tipi is tall and made of poles leaned together like a tipi. It is covered with woven mats. The doorway is covered by a piece of cloth. Much of what she is wearing are photographer's props.
Young Native American man, identified as Joe Bennet of the Walla Walla tribe, poses, standing, on a Pendleton-style blanket, his left hand raised to his brow, amid grass and trees. He wears a hat that appears to be handmade, with a long ponytail flowing out from it on one side, and two braids intertwined with pieces of cloth on the other. He is bare-chested and wears a long, multi-tiered beaded necklace. Various pieces of cloth and a long strip of fur are wrapped diagonally about his hips, and he wears wool leggings and plain moccasins.
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 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.
A Native American encampment, located in a clearing next to a stand of trees (deciduous without leaves and conifers), at the base of a hill or mountain. There are four tipis made of mats and canvas, and one larger tent structure, made of canvas. There are two wooden barns, one with a saddled horse next to it. There are several wagons, a segment of fence, and various wooden crates and sundries scattered about. One of the wagons is loaded with materials for another tipi, next to the beginning of a new wooden barn or shelter (posts, cross beam, grassy roof). At the far right edge of the photo is part of a wooden structure or dwelling.
A Native American man, identified as Parson Motanic of the Cayuse Tribe, stands in an outdoor setting holding a bustle in his right hand. The headdress is ornamented with feathers and fur. The man is dressed slick style (bare chested) and wears a choker, necklace, bandoleer, belt, and leggings.
A man identified as Presbyterian missionary Rev. J. N. Cornelison stands close in front of a tipi. He is dressed in a suit with open jacket, vest, fold-down collar, and patterned bow tie. His light-colored hair is cut short. He holds a light-colored western-style hat cradled in both hands in front of his stomach as he gazes off to his right. Near his left foot, a blurred image appears to be of a small dog or other animal rearing up on its hind feet. Behind him on the ground to his right, beside the tipi, is what appears to be a pile of clothing, and a person wrapped in a geometrically patterned blanket, kneeling and with their back to the camera. The figure's left hand is extended to the side and clutching something white. Two outside poles of the tipi are visible; the tipi appears to be made of canvas with wood or reed slatting at the top.
A Native American woman, identified as Lou French of the Walla Walla tribe, stands to the right of a tipi, with her left side towards the photographer. She points to her left with her right arm upraised and index finger outstretched. Her costume consists of a geometically decorated hat shaped like a tuncated cone, a fringed leather dress with geometric beading, and moccasins with floral beading at the ankles. She wears a number of metal bangle bracelets and what looks like a brass arm band. In her left hand she holds the string to a geometrically-beaded rectangular bag which has circular shapes made of up joined triangles, dark shapes on light bag. Over her shoulders runs a striped band which is attached to the cradleboard she wears on her back. Although the design cannot be seen clearly in this photo, what can be seen resembles almost exactly similar photos of cradleboards with bold floral designs. Attached to the cradleboard is a dark geometrically-decorated piece of cloth or blanket which acts as a hood for the baby. All that can be seen of the baby is the right side of its head, as the rest is engulfed in the bag of the cradleboard. The tipi a few yards behind her seems to be covered with woven mats, and has several long poles on the outside as well as the inside framework. Leaning upright against it are several boards and branches. Close behind is a line of low trees or high bushes, and to the right of the photo a criss-cross of lines that might be from a fence or other structure. The woman's pose is upright and self-assured as she gestures.