Studio portrait of a Native American man identified as Chief Alex of the Tinneh Tribe. He is sitting on a wooden chair wearing a round, long-brimmed light-colored hat, and a dark button-up shirt with collar underneath a dark open-breasted jacket. He has a mustache and his head is turned in profile.
A black-and-white photograph of a Native American man. In white ink near the bottom is written Yakima Moorhouse. The man stands in front of a canvas backdrop on which is painted a leafy woodland scene. The canvas extends onto the floor and into the foreground of the photo; he is standing on it, and in front of him are two leaf-shaped stone arrowheads. The man's hair is pulled up and back from his face and into pigtails which are bound in fur hairwraps and extend nearly to his waist. A long quilled and beaded hair ornament hangs from the right side of his head; on the left side is an ornament of feathers. He wears shell disk earrings, a choker necklace, and loop necklaces, with a disk hanging from one of the loops. The collar of his long dark cloth shirt is turned down. Over the shirt he wears a wide beaded armband above the elbow on each arm. His open cloth vest is decorated or patterned, and it appears that a long ornament including hair, beads, and feathers is attached to the right shoulder. It hangs down to his knees. Under the vest but over the shirt he seems to be wearing a leather belt decorated with brass tacks. Below that is an dark apron with geometrical decorations made with buttons or coins; the hem has a white zigzag edging with the points facing down. His dark leggings also have a lighter zigzag edging, but on them the points face up. There seem to be lighter strips of weaving or beading, as well as some braids, hanging loose from underneath the apron or the shirt and reaching to his ankles. The man wears moccasins beaded with a floral design. In his hands he holds a hatchet-style pipe with the blade facing down. The handle of the pipe has geometric designs on it, and a triangle of beading or weaving hanging off the end, itself fringed with long strips that hang to the ground. The fringe is decorated with a few small bells. On the floor at the left of the photo is a pile of blankets and other objects.
