A group of men, women, and children, identified as the congregation of the Indian Presbyterian Church of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, are posing in front of a church. The group includes Native American men, Native American women, Native American children, European American men, European American women, and European American children. Everyone is garbed in Euro-American clothing. Some of the men and male children are wearing hats. All but one of the Native American women are wearing shawls around their shoulders and scarves atop their heads. Two European American women are kneeling behind a group of children. Everyone else is standing. A few individuals are standing outside the door of the church. The church, which appears to be of wooden construction, has three windows on one side and one window on the only other visible side. A steeple is above the door of the church. A chimney is on the right front end of the roof. A tipi is in the background.
A group of children, identified as pupils at the Umatilla Indian School, are in a classroom. Most of the children are seated. Three Native American children are standing atop a table at the back of the room. A female teacher is standing at the back of the room. There are desks, tables, chairs, and a blackboard in the room. The girls wear dresses and the boys wear jackets and pants. Some of the boys have wide white collars over their jackets.
A group of Native American children, identified as pupils at the Umatilla Indian School, are seated at desks in a classroom. Each child is looking at an open book. A female teacher is looking on from the back of the classroom. There is a blackboard on the back wall of the room. Sunlight is streaming in through windows on the right of the photograph.
Four Native American girls and a female instructor are standing by dining tables. The group is identified as a class in domestic science at the Umatilla Indian School.
A view of an exhibit of Native American clothing and artifacts identified as belonging to Major Lee Moorhouse. The exhibit includes blankets, regalia, feathered headdresses, buckskin clothing, bags and other items.
A group of adults and children, identified as instructors and pupils of the Umatilla Indian School, are performing farm work. A group of children are hanging out of a window of a barn. Six horses are yoked to two wagons.
A group of men and women identified as employees of the Umatilla Indian School, are posing in front of a wooden building, possibly the schoolhouse. Two storeys of the building are visible, with two windows seen on each storey. Some of women and one of the men are seated on the ground in front of the other people who are standing. The men all wear hats and all but one wear European American suits. The man on the far left of the image is dressed in what appears to be a Chinese laborer's outfit of the period; he appears to be Chinese. The women all wear European American clothing of the period (long skirts and long-sleeved blouses with high-necked collars.) All the women wear their hear pulled up off their necks.
Three Native American men, identified as members of the Cayuse tribe, are seated on horses alongside an unidentified body of water. The man on the left side of the photograph is wearing a vest and a headdress; he is holding an unidentified item in his left hand. The man in the middle is riding bare-legged. The man on the far right is wearing a headdress and holding a hatchet in his left hand.
An outside photograph of two Native American men dressed in Pendleton blankets posing on the bank of a river in the wintertime. Both men have their hair in braids, with a single feather attached. Each man is aiming a bow and arrow at the other. The photographer has identified the man on the left side of the photograph as Tilloquats; he is holding his bow in his left hand and one arrow, fitted into the bow, in his right hand. Hanging off his right arm is a whip. He is bare-chested and wears his Pendleton blanket wrapped around his waist. One moccasin can be seen from under his blanket. The photographer has identified the other man as Yee-Yee, and he is holding his bow in his left hand -- fitting the arrow into his bow with his right. He is dressed with a Pendleton blanket over his left shoulder; there are pants or leggings under the blanket. On his back he has a quiver with hawk feathers. In the background lies the river, leading to a rising riverbank. There are leafless cottonwood trees on the other side of the river and patches of snow on the ground. In the far background is a gently rising hillside.
An outside photograph of two Native American men, one of whom appears to be bare-chested, attired with Pendleton blankets wrapped around their waists, posing on the bank of a river in the wintertime. Both men have their hair in braids with a feather attached. Each man is aiming a bow and arrow at the other. The photographer has identified the man on the left side of the photograph as Tilloquats; he is holding his bow in his left hand and one arrow, fitted into the bow, in his right hand. Hanging off his right arm is a whip. The photographer has identified the other man as Yee-Yee, and he is holding his bow in his left hand--fitting the arrow into his bow with his right. On his back he has a quiver with hawk feathers. Behind the men is the river, running the width of the photograph. In the background lies the rising riverbank, leading to the hillside. There are leafless cottonwood trees on the other side of the river and patches of snow on the ground.