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Description: Native American man working at a belt driven loom. The man is wearing earrings and a necklace that has many strands. He is not wearing a shirt. Behind him on the wall is a blanket with wide stripes. The stripes are made up of geometric patterns. The blanket on the loom is also made up of strips with geometric patterns.

Description: A Native American woman and a Native American man stand at two industrial looms in the Pendleton Woolen Mills in Pendleton, Oregon. The man wears a blanket around his waist and the woman wears a blanket over her shoulders. The man wears his hair in braids and holds a tool, possibly a shuttle, in his right hand.

Description: An interior photograph of a man standing in front of shelves of Pendleton blankets. The man has long braids and is wearing moccasins.

Description: Two Native American women, identified as Mrs. Black and Stella Williams of the Cayuse tribe, are posing outside in front of a cloth backdrop. The woman on the left is seated on a Pendleton blanket. She is wearing a scarf over her head and a blanket around her body. The hem of a Euro-American dress or skirt is visible underneath the blanket. The woman on the right is standing. She is wearing a necklace, a choker, earrings, a native dress, a belt, and moccasins. Her hair is tied into two braids. With both of her hands, she is holding a bag with a beaded, geometric design.

Description: A Native American woman, identified as a member of the Umatilla Tribe, is seated in front of a blanket backdrop. The woman is wearing a beaded buckskin dress with a belt. She has a cloth scarf tied behind her head, and two long braids tied with ribbon. The cloth sleeves of her underdress are visible below the fringe area of the buckskin dress. She is wearing beaded bracelets, necklaces, and a choker and shell earrings. She is holding a beaded bag, that has a deer and two flowers in the design. There is a Pendleton blanket at the base of the backdrop, covering the woman's chair or stool.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Victor William, sits in front of a plain cloth backdrop. His head is turned to the left. He wears only a blanket over his shoulder and wrapped around his torso. His hair is syled in braids.

Description: 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.

Description: A Native American woman, identified as Anna Kash-Kash of the Cayuse tribe, is standing outside in front of a backdrop. She is wearing a cornhusk hat, shell earrings, moccasins, a choker, a necklace, a beaded belt, and a beaded buckskin dress. In her right hand, she is holding a beaded bag with a geometric design. She is standing on a round floor mat. A Pendleton blanket is underneath the mat. A lattice-work fence is to the right.

Description: A Native American man, identified as Tots-homa of the Cayuse tribe, is kneeling outside on one knee. He is wearing a single trail bonnet, earrings, a loop necklace, bracelets, and moccasins. He is holding a hatchet-style pipe in his right hand. He is kneeling on a coiled cedar root mat. A Pendleton blanket is underneath the mat. A studio backdrop is behind him.

Description: A Native American woman, identified as Rosa Parr of the Walla Walla Tribe, is seated on a chair in front of a blanket backdrop. The woman is dressed in a buckskin dress with fringes and beadwork. She is wearing beaded moccasins and a woven cornhusk hat. Her hair is long and divided into two tresses that are either partially braided or tied. Her jewelry includes a beaded choker and bracelet, several copper bracelets, and two rings. She is holding on her lap an unidentified wooden handled tool or implement, with leather straps attached to the base of the handle. The chair she is seated on and the ground under her feet are covered by a Pendleton blanket. The blanket backdrop appears to be suspended by a wooden structural frame and there is some white cloth visible on the sides of the frame, overlapping the blanket. The backdrop is placed in a grassy area next to a wooden plank walkway. Some tall trees and a fence are visible in the background.

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