Search Results

Description: A Native American baby, identified as Spokane Jim's papoose, is in a beaded cradleboard that is positioned upright and leaning against a mat covered by a blanket. Two bags hang from the cradleboard, which has a floral motif. One of the bags also has a floral motif and the other includes an image of a person and a horse.

Description: A woman wearing Native American clothing stands behind a collection of Native American baskets identified as belonging to Lee Moorhouse. Some of the baskets are beaded and many have geometric patterns or designs.

Description: A Native American woman reclines on a blanket before a collection of Native American artifacts, identified as belonging to Major Lee Moorhouse. The woman wears a beaded buckskin dress, a choker, beaded moccasins, and a bracelet. She wears her hair in braids and she holds a bow and and an arrow. Behind her on the wall are assorted Native American regalia, clothing, weapons, and bags.

Description: Young Indian male in native dress (bare-chested, wearing feathered headdress, woolen leggings, hair in long braids) is seated in front of a display of woolen blankets. In his left hand he holds a long pipe with perhaps a beaded bag hanging down from it. In his right hand he holds an implement of some kind, perhaps with ceremonial significance. At his feet, there is a quiver of arrows.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Poker Jim, Chief at Round Up, sits in a chair wearing Native American clothing, including a buckskin coat with fringe, a headdress with eagle feathers, fur and other ornamentation, and moccasins. In his left hand he holds a rifle in a buckskin scabbard ornamented with beadwork, fringe, and an eagle feather. A fur is draped over his right forearm and in his right hand he holds a medal with a likeness of a European American in profile.

Description: A corner area of an interior room is covered with a net, from which is strung an assortment of Native American artifacts and decorations. There are baskets in many shapes and sizes; bags, woven and beaded; necklaces of beads or shells; antlers; some beadwork and leatherwork; woven mats and wall hangings; bow and arrows; two quivers with fringe; a pistol; a rope; drums; a miniature of a canoe decorated with a floral design; some portraits, one drawn in charcoal and several photographs; a carved wooden spoon; and other assorted objects. The interior of the room that is visible is wallpaper on the ceiling and upper wall area, a bench with cusions, and some ornate picture frames to the left and right of the display of goods.

Description: Fourteen Native American men on horeback are riding through an encampment. All are wearing some sort of headdress and tribal costume. Some are carrying staffs with feather adornment. The horses have beaded harnesses. They are riding through a meadow edged by a line of trees where people stand watching. There are five tipis spaced along the tree line on the meadow. On the opposite side of the photo is a photographer dressed in European-American clothing and a camera. Some of the people watching are wearing cowboy hats and are wrapped in blankets.

Description: A Native American boy, identified as Pope Leo White Bull of the Cayuse tribe and the Umatilla tribe, stands on a blanket in front of a backdrop. He wears Native American clothing or costume, including a headdress or hat, a bead and hairbone bandoleer, a cloth shirt, a breechcloth with a geometric motif, a shirt, leggings, and moccasins. On the blanket at the boy's feet are eagle feathers and an object that is possibly a fan.

Description: Young Native American man, identified as Joe Bennet of the Walla Walla tribe, poses, standing, on a Pendleton-style blanket, his left hand raised to his brow, amid grass and trees. He wears a hat that appears to be handmade, with a long ponytail flowing out from it on one side, and two braids intertwined with pieces of cloth on the other. He is bare-chested and wears a long, multi-tiered beaded necklace. Various pieces of cloth and a long strip of fur are wrapped diagonally about his hips, and he wears wool leggings and plain moccasins.

Description: A Native American woman, identified as Lacy Luton of the Cayuse tribe, stands in front of a backdrop in costume. She wears a hat with a geometric motif, a beaded cloth dress, a wide belt with a striped design, a sash with a geometric motif, leggings with a geometric motif, and moccasins. She wears her hair in braids and wears jewelry, including a choker and a bracelet. In her right hand she holds a beaded bag or handbag with a geometric motif. In her left hand she holds a bow and an arrow. She stands on a round mat on a blanket with a geometric motif.

Oregon Digital