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Description: A Native American man, identified as Wanico of the Umatilla tribe, is standing outside in front of a cloth backdrop. He is wearing a Euro-American shirt, a wide-brim hat, a vest, a scarf, boots, and woolly chaps. His hair is tied into two braids. He is holding a bow in his left hand and has a knife tucked into the waistband of his chaps. There are garden plants within the man's immediate vicinity. A lattice-work fence is on the left. A house and tree are visible in the background.

Description: Victor William of the Cayuse tribe stands in front of a tipi, gazing slightly down and to his left. He wears a collarless cloth shirt and is wrapped in a geometrically-patterned blanket which hides all but his right shoulder and arm. His left arm pulls the blanket across his body so that it wraps around him thoroughly and no other details of costume or footgear can be seen. His long dark hair is unbound and is parted on the left side and pulled around to hang in front of his right shoulder. To his right stands a child, with bare legs and feet, and hair that is either short or pulled back. The child wears a knee-length dress. The child is holding a length of ribbon, lace, or some other gauzy material which trails on the ground; she smiles as she looks down at it in her hands. In the background of the photo a line of fenceposts behind the tipi leads off to the distance. Farther away across the flat land in the far distance is a line of mountains.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Long Hair of the Cayuse Tribe, is seated. He is wearing a Capote coat, necklaces, bandoleers, a fur, a shirt, and a feather in his hair. In his lap, he is holding a hatchet-style pipe.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Wa-tis-te-me-he of the Cayuse Tribe, is stading in front of a blanket backdrop. He has long grey hair, that hangs down over his shoulders, and is wearing several beaded loop necklaces. He is wearing a suede leather coat that has buttons. The jacket has long fringe around the upper arms and along the back of the sleeves and has short fringe around the collar, the cuffs, the hem, and the placket. Some of the fringe areas have beads. The man is also wearing a cloth shirt and has a blanket wrapped around his waist. The blanket backdrop is set up in front of a lattice fence.

Description: A Native American man and woman are standing in the middle of a campsite, facing each other and holding hands. The man, identified as Chief No Shirt, is wearing cloth pants, a cloth shirt, and a hat. His hair is long. The woman is wearing a cloth dress and has a shawl with fringe draped over her shoulders. There are three tipis visible in the image. The two larger ones, to the left and right, are covered with canvas with tule mats around the top area. The third tipi is covered in canvas and is smaller and set back from the other two. The tipi on the left has some poles lashed around the outside. Next to this tipi is a small wooden structure or platform that is covered with some animal hides. There is a similar structure near the smaller tipi. The campsite is in a clearing of bare ground with a few sage bushes and some patches of snow. In the backgound is more snow and deciduous trees and bushes.

Description: A Native American man identified as Joe Bennett of the Walla Walla tribe stands in traditional Native American clothing near a tipi. He wears a buckskin shirt with fringe, a headband with an eagle feather, a choker, necklaces, and a breechcloth with a geometric motif. He holds a tomahawk and a fur and has a knife in a scabbard tucked in his belt. The man wears his hair in braids.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Wanico of the Umatilla Tribe, is posed in front of a white canvas backdrop. His hair is long, parted on one side with some pulled back and secured behind his head. He is wearing a buckskin shirt with beadwork on the shoulders that extends down the arms and down both sides of the front, below the shoulders. The shirt has fringe at the hemline around the waist and cuffs, around the seam connecting the sleeves to the shoulders, and on the front, between the beaded areas. He is wearing several beaded loop necklaces, cloth pants, and a cloth shirt under his leather shirt. Only the collar and neck of his shirt and the top of his pants are visible.

Description: Two Native American men, identified as preachers from the Nez Perce Tribe, are standing in front of a large canvas tent. Both men are dressed in dark suits, with cloth pants, jackets, vests, white shirts, and leather shoes. The man on the left is wearing a hat and a bow tie. The man on the right is holding his hat in his hand and is wearing a long tie. The tent is white canvas that is draped around wooden support poles. The canvas for the roof is a separate cloth, that has scalloped edges.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Dr. Whirl-wind (Charley Whirlwind, Sr.) of the Cayuse Tribe, is mounted on a horse. The man is wearing buckskin pants and shirt and moccasins. The shirt is decorated with feathers and beadwork on the front and sleeves. He is wearing a headdress with a full crown of feathers and strips of fur hanging down around his shoulders. He has a large beaded choker. The horse is solid brown in color and has a saddle, saddle blanket and bridle. On the ground in front of the horse is a dog with long, fluffy white hair. The man, horse, and dog are on a slope on the side of a mountain. Around them are some other slopes and some stands of pine trees. The top of the mountain is in the background.

Description: A Native American woman and child, identifed on the photograph as Tema and Walter Peo of the Umatilla Tribe, are standing on a blanket outside in a wooded area. The woman is wearing a headband, a necklace, a blanket draped around her shoulders, a blanket wrapped around her waist, and a belt. Her hair is tied in two braids. The boy is wearing a headband, a necklace, a shirt, and a belt. The boy is holding a pipe in his hands. A bag is lying on the ground on the blanket.

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