A young Native American woman identified as Nellie Parr, a Walla Walla woman, sits in a room in front of a backdrop made of a plain blanket draped over a rack. On the walls behind and to the right hang a jumble of feathered headdresses, tomahawks, and other items; it appears she is in a photographer's studio. The woman wears beaded moccasins on her feet, which are resting on a small coiled cedar root mat. She wears leggings and a beaded buckskin dress, with beads in the fringe at calves, thighs, and arms. On her arms are metal bracelets, and around her neck are hung a number of necklaces including two that seem to be made of animal claws, long strings of beads, and a necklace with a medal. She wears a cornhusk basket hat with geometric designs and feathers on one side over her braided hair. She holds a bow and arrows with her right hand; the bottom of the bow rests on the mat. Her left hand is closed over the handle of a bag. Covering the object on which she sits is a blanket with bold geometric designs. A striped blanket can be seen tossed over something in the bottom right of the photograph., [Nellie Parr, Walla Walla woman, wearing beaded buckskin dress, leggings, moccasins, cornhusk hat, necklaces. She holds a bow and rests feet on cedar mat. In Moorhouse studio; curio collection visible on wall.]
An outside photograph of an older Native American man posing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop draped over a wall. He has been identified as Five Crows, and is dressed in regalia. His hair is unbound with a single feather showing in the back. There is a small hoop earring visible in his right ear. He is dressed in a cloth shirt, over which are a choker, loop necklace, and hairbone bandoleer. Over both shirtsleeves are wide metal armbands. In his right hand he is holding a knife, and in his left hand he is holding a pipe bowl. Hanging from his left arm is a leather belt with a knife scabbard attached. He has a Pendleton blanket wrapped around his waist.
An interior photograph of an older Native American man posing in front of a cloth or canvas backdrop. The photographer has identified the man as Som-Kin. He is wearing a flat-brimmed cowboy hat held in place with a braided string or cord tied under his chin. His hair is unbound. He is dressed in a cloth shirt, over which is a cloth or wool vest, a buckskin coat, with a scarf around his neck. The buckskin coat is fringed around the shoulders, end of sleeves, collar edge and coat seams. On the left side of the vest is a badge with the title, "US Indian Police." Attached to a vest button below the badge is a pocket watch chain.
A canal, identified as the Hinkle irrigation canal near Pendleton, Oregon, is flowing through the middle of a flat, open plain of sagebrush. There is a man standing on the edge of the right bank. He is dressed is a long, cloth coat, cloth pants, and a hat.
Black and white image of a man identified as Algea, Yakima Chief. Algea is wearing a feather headdress and is holding a pipe, he is seated on a blanket covered box.
A Native American man, identified as Chief Red Hawk of the Cayuse Tribe, is seated in front of a solid colored blanket that is suspended like a backdrop. The man is wearing a cloth shirt and has a Pendleton blanket wrapped around his body from the chest down. He has long hair, some of which is tied in a scarf that drapes over his shoulder. He is wearing a beaded choker and beaded bracelets. In his lap, one hand is holding a bow and two arrows and a pipe with a long, flat, wooden handle. His other hand is holding up a war club, which is adorned with feathers. A cowboy hat with a braided or twisted scarf hat band is hung on the backdrop. The image appears to be an outside photograph, as there is some vegetation visible in the bottom corners., Chief Red Hawk, Cayuse Tribe [George Red Hawk, Cayuse man, in Moorhouse yard/studio. He is wrapped in a blanket and holds a stone tomahawk, pipe, bow and arrows.]
An outside photograph of three Native American women and a Native American boy. The women are all wearing Native regalia; the young boy is dressed in Euro-American clothing. All four are standing on Pendleton blankets or shawls; there are other blankets and shawls hanging behind them. A bag with geometric design and leather-tooled belt can be seen on the left of the photograph. In the foreground are several bags and miscellaneous blankets. In the far background are numerous trees. All three women are wearing wool dresses, have their hair in braids, hands crossed, and are wearing necklaces and circular earrings. The two women closest to the boy are wearing chokers. Each has a contrasting shirt--with shirtsleeves that extend beyond the dress sleeves--under her dress. The two women farthest from the boy have dentallia shell designs on their dress bodices; the third woman has elk teeth stitched to her dress bodice. The boy is attired in Euro-American shirt, knickers, stockings and boots., Cayuse Tribe [Josephine You-mo-its, Cayuse woman, with two daughters and son. [Boy in European clothing; women wear decorated cloth dresses. Blankets, nags and baskets on display.]
A balck-and-white photograph of three men. The inscription at the bottom in white ink reads Yakima Chief Saponowox and sons. No. 354. Moorhouse. Chief Saponowox sits between the two younger men, who are standing. The chief wears a broad-brimmed felt hat with a feather standing upright at the front of the hatband. More feathers hang down from the back of the hat. His arms are crossed on his lap; with his right hand he holds a feather up to the left side of his face. His long unbound hair hangs over his chest. He is wearing a white cloth under-shirt and appears to also be wearing a dark one; over all is a dark cloth shirt or jacket. What looks like a rabbit's foot hangs from a thong around his neck. His legs are covered by a patterned blanket but he appears to be wearing pants or leggings and to be barefoot or just wearing socks. The man on the left of the photo wears a furred and feathered hat. His long unbound hair hangs nearly to his waist. He appears to be wearing a choker of white beads or shells around his neck. A short bandoleer which appears to have the furry paw of a small animal attached, and a necklace with ermine and other ornaments, are hung over his dark cloth smock-like shirt, which has a lighter pattern in it which resembles snowflakes. It looks as though his left arm is missing, but it may be behind his back; in his right hand he holds at waist-level a stick from which eagle feathers depend. His cloth leggings are partly obscured by an apron of fringed tartan which hangs from below his smock to halfway below his knees. He appears to be wearing moccasins or dark socks. The man on the right has his hair pulled back from his forehead. He stands with his arms crossed underneath a long feather stole. White feathers hang from the end of the stole. Eagle feathers frame his face, and he has a large eagle feather tucked under his left arm. He wears a striped shirt and has a patterned blanket falling from his waist to the ground, hiding his legs and feet. The men appear to be standing on a carpet which has been covered with straw or some typed of dried vegetation.
This photograph of a Native American man identified as "John Liberty, Umatilla tribe", is set up as if it were a studio portrait, with a dark blanket hanging down behind him as a backdrop. However, over the top of the blanket can be seen treetops and sky. The seated man wears a feathered headdress with ermine and ribbons hanging down the left side over his bare chest to his waist. A geometrically patterned blanket covers his lap from his waist to where the portrait ends at his knees. His right hand grasps a pipe, which is decorated with ribbons. A decorated strip of some material or leather also seems to hang from the pipe; it has pictographs or geometric designs beaded or painted on. The man's dark hair appears to be cut short; most is hiddent beneath the headdress., John Liberty, Umatilla Tribe [Umatilla man, in eagle feather head-dress, with pipe, in Moorhouse yard.]