A Native American man, identified as Lazy Dog of the Umatilla tribe, is seated outside on a white horse. The man is wearing a cowboy hat with feathers tucked into the hat band. He is wearing Euro-American clothing. He is grasping the reins with his right hand. His feet are resting in the stirrups. A saddle blanket and sattle bags are on the horse. A tipi is behind and to the right of the man. A dog is near its entrance. A row of cottonwood trees is behind the man and the tipi. A treeless prairie with softly rolling hills is in the background.
Three Native American men and four children stand around outside a tipi. They are accompanied by two horses, a cow and two calves. More livestock are visible in the backround. One of the calves appears to be nursing. Miscellaneous gear and supplies sit on the edge of the photograph, just to the left of the tipi.
A group of tipis, identified as being on the Umatilla Reservation, are nestled within a grove of deciduous trees. The photo was taken on a bright, sunny day.
Railroad tracks run in front of a wooded area identified as being near Cayuse Station, Thorn Hollow. Fences run along the railroad tracks and stop on either side of a railroad crossing. The crossing is left of center and has a white sign beside it. There are three tipis among the trees. On the right side of the photo is a wooden building. In between the right most tipi and the wooden building is a cage raised up off the ground on legs and another undetermined object on the ground. On the right half of the photo between the tipis and the railroad tracks is a cultivated area that could be a garden. Behind the tipis among the trees is a stream or river, and in the background are hills. The trees are both deciduous without leaves and conifers.
An outside photograph of Meachem Creek in Oregon. The foreground displays a zoomed-in angle of the water that extends the entire width of the photograph. The water displays the reflection of sunlight and various patterns of water ripples and color. As the image pans in, the creek is boarded by two embankments. The left embankment displays clusters of conifers, leafless trees, and wild grasses and shrubs. A smal, sandy slope decends into the creek and traces of a hill can be seen behind the tree clusters. The right embankment displays clusters of conifers, leafless trees, and wild grasses and shrubs. Several pieces of timber have fallen and are on the banks of the creek. A small, flat, rocky terrain with small wild grasses extends off the right embankment and into the creek. A steep hill can be viewed behind the right embankment. In the background, more conifer clusters can be viewed. The top of the photograph displays open sky.
A corral, identified as part of the Umatilla Reservation, contains two horses. A tipi is located to the right of the corral in a wooded area. A body of water is in the foreground.
A view of a Native American encampment, identified as being at Cayuse Station on the Umatilla Indian Reservation on July 4, 1909. The foreground of the photo shows grass with some branches lying on it. To the right is a long trench, behind which can be seen eight tipis. In the middle ground a trail bisects the encampment. Beyond it are a tent, and at least four more canvas tipis and the skeleton of another. On the trail at the far right is a buggy. A number of horses, some with saddlebags, are at the side of the trail. Beyond the skeleton tipi is another group of horses, and a person with his back to the camera, who may be wearing a pack or may be a woman with an infant in a cradleboard. Farther in the background another figure stands in front of more horses. Standing on the trail to the left, in front of a tipi, is a man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and a blanket and trousers. He also has his back to the camera. Behind the encampment runs a row of deciduous trees. It looks as though there may be a wooden structure behind the trees. A low mountain range is in the background.
W. S. Bowman's photography studio in Pendleton, Oregon. Two stories, of brick or stone, with a crenellated roofline across the front and wrapping partway around the sides of the roof, it sits on a high foundation near the river. The ramp leading to the entrance has been braced with a stone retaining wall. In the window of the studio are displayed a number of photographs. The deck runs around at least two sides of the building. To the left is a wooden false-fronted building with the painted word "Persian" visible, and beyond that what looks like a large house.
A tipi stands next to a stream bed. On the other side of the stream bed is a fence. Behind the fence is a grassy field with hills in the background. Next to the tipi is a small pile of wood.
At the left is a large mound of smoking material identified as wheat. A group of people stand and sit in the background, one man sits in the foreground, and a man squats near the wheat in the middle distance. Three sets of railroad tracks lead from the foreground past the wheat and curve to the left in the distance. A water tower and small cabin stand on the right. Utility poles and lines parallel the tracks on the left. A hill is visible in the distance to the right.