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Description: An interior photograph of a Native American man posing in front of an unadorned backdrop that may be a Pendleton blanket. The man has been identified as Billie Joshua. He is wearing a flat-brimmed cowboy hat. His hair is braided, with the braid ends unraveling. He is attired in a Euro-American style suit, complete with shirt, button-down vest and jacket, and knotted tie. His head is turned so that he is looking to his right.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Isadore Whitebull of the Cayuse Tribe. is seated in front of a white backdrop. He is dressed in cloth pants, a cloth shirt buttoned up to the collar, and a wool vest that has a pocket watch chain looped from the pocket to a button hole. He has long hair and is wearing a cowboy hat that is tied under his chin with a ribbon.

Description: An interior photograph of a Native American woman posed in front of a backdrop. She has her hair in long braids and is wearing large, circular earrings. She is wearing a choker. Around her shoulders is a Euro-American scarf and a blanket or shawl. She is attired in a print cloth shirt or dress., Ku-Massag—Cayuse [Ku-mas-sag, Cayuse woman, in regalia in Moorhouse yard/studio. 'Copyright 1900 by Lee Moorhouse' printed on photo.]

Description: 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.

Description: 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.]

Description: A Native American man, identified as Francis Lincoln of the Cayuse Tribe, is sitting in front of a tipi, dressed in full regalia. He is wearing a headdress with feathers, cloth pants made from a blanket, and a plaid, fringed breechcloth. He has beaded moccasins, leather straps with bells wrapped around his calves and ankles, and fur arm bands with feathers and tassles. He has a beaded belt around his waist and a fur bandoleer with beaded decorations. He is wearing a beaded choker and his hair is tied into two long plaits. He is holding a stick or rod covered with fur and adorned with feathers. His chair and the ground around it are covered by two Pendleton blankets. There are a couple of objects placed on the blankets near his feet. The tipi fills up most of the background in this image.

Description: A man, identified as Donald McKay of the Cayuse tribe, sits on a small log in the woods on the bank of a narrow creek. Many of the branches that frame the photograph are bare, and the ground is littered with leaves. The man's hair is white or gray, and he has a long mustache. He wears European style clothing: a broad-brimmed felt hat, a dark cloth jacket with lapels trimmed in lighter cloth, a checked shirt with cloth cravat, jeans or cloth trousers, and boots. In his left hand he holds a curved walking cane. Behind and to his left are several broad planks of wood that reach like a bridge from the bank of the creek to about two-thirds across the water., [Donald McKay, Cayuse tribal man, in suit, string tie, with cane, sitting by creek.]

Description: 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.

Description: A Native American woman identified as "Mrs. Black Hawk" of the Cayuse tribe stands in front of a tule reed mat tipi. There is snow on the ground and on parts of the tipi. Five poles are visible, and on the left side of the photograph is a wooden ladder made of poles and boards. The canvas entry of the tipi is tied back and the woman stands with her feet inside, slightly leaning out. Her long dark hair hangs below her waist in two braids; she wears a choker necklace, and a rounded earring is visible. She wears a long dark cloth wing dress with wide sections of lighter beading that run across the bodice and shoulders and onto the sleeves. A longer sleeve of floral material from a shirt or underdress is visible as she holds up her left hand. Around her waist is a wide beaded belt, and it looks like another beaded belt is hanging from it. In her left hand she holds a strip of material beaded in floral patterns and embellished with a strip of fur which has round medallions or shell discs sewn on at regular intervals. On her right side hangs a multicolored striped and fringed blanket; with her right hand she seems to be holding or pushing aside a dark bag or curtain trimmed with a light floral-patterned material. Propped against a low log or board at the entrance to the tipi are two flat bags beaded with geometric patterns. Under them, and taking up the left foreground of the photo, is a striped blanket.

Description: A Native American woman, identified as Queen Etna of the Cayuse tribe, is sitting in front of a tipi. A child in a cradleboard is to the woman's right. The woman is wearing a necklace, a leather dress, and earrings. Her hair is tied into two braids. The child is in a cradleboard with a floral design., Queen Etna, Cayuse Tribe [Cayuse woman, seated by tule tipi, with infant in cradleboard. She wears decorated buckskin dress, cornhusk hat, and holds a cornhusk bag with a triangular design.]

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