Seven men, three sitting, four standing, are grouped in a studio before a backdrop which has tipis painted on it. Two of the standing men are white men, identified as John McBain and Lee Moorhouse. Both wear suits and ties and McBain wears a felt hat while Moorhouse wears a high top hat. Both men have moustaches. Moorhouse holds a long pipe and flat geometrically beaded bag with fringe in his right hand, and his left hand is on the shoulder of the man seated in front of him, identified as Young Chief of the Cayuse. A Native American man, identified as Chief Sho-o-way of the Cayuse, stands in the back, also wearing a suit. He has a top-coat with furred lapels over it, and a conspicuous watch chain and medal. He wears no hat, and his gray or white hair hangs to his shoulders, where it is curled. The fourth man in the back row, identified as Chief Wolf, does not seem to be wearing headgear, but the middle section of his dark hair is pulled back from his forehead and puffed up above his head, and there seem to be feathers or other ornaments in it. The hair on the sides hangs at least to his shoulders. He wears a choker necklance and buckskin shirt, with a blanket across his left shoulder to the right side of his waist. He appears to be holding a large white feather or wing with dark spots in his right hand. The three Native American men seated in front are all wearing headgear. The man on the left, seated on a wooden chair, is identified as Chief Peo of the Umatilla. He wears a stand-up bonnet of feathers over his shoulder-length hair, and seven rows of necklaces, and his shirt is decorated with shells or teeth along its v-neck, with a stiff fringe below the shoulders. His hands are crossed on his lap, and the lower hand rests on a patterned blanket hanging between his legs. His upper, right, arm, is crossed over, and he has another blanket draped over it, and a ring on his hand. His pants have wide strips of beading down the outside of the legs. He seems to be wearing plain moccasins. The man in the center has been identifed as Chief Homily of the Walla Walla. He seems to be wearing a military cap, ornamented with beading, feathers, and fringe. His buckskin shirt has rectangular areas of beading on the sleeves and a row of ermine across the chest and shoulders.He seems to be wearing plain buckskin chaps over his pants, and beaded moccasins. His hands are in his lap and in his right hand he holds a pipe, from which a beaded bag dangles. The third seated man, Young Chief, wears a straw or felt hat with a hatband and an ornament standing up in the front, out of which emerge plumes of feathers which curve over the top of his hat. He has dark shoulder-length hair, and an earring is visible. He too wears loops of beads around his neck. He seems to be wearing a military jacket with chevrons at the wrist over a plaid shirt. The jacket is decorated with fringe at the shoulders which depends lower than his elbows. He has a patterned blanket over both legs and rolled in his lap, with patterned trousers underneath and floral beaded moccasins. His hands in his lap grasp a hatchet-style pipe, which has a flat beaded bag with streamers hanging from it. The area beneath the men is covered with a very hairy rug or mat, which is slightly rolled up at the right side of the photograph.
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.
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.
An interior photograph of a man, identified as Lee Moorhouse, standing and holding a sheaf of barley that is taller than the man. He is attired in European-American clothing with vest, trousers, and pocket watch chain., Umatilla County barley. [Lee Moorhouse poses holding sheaf of barley. Image signed by Moorhouse but attributed to Wheeler by Grafe.]
