A group of Native Americans, including five men and two women, are posing in two rows in front of a canvas lodge. The men are standing shoulder to shoulder in the back row. The man on the far left is wearing a horned headdress, a necklace, a blanket around his legs, and a buckskin shirt. He is holding a brush and other unidentified items. The second man from the left is wearing a shirt, earrings, bracelets, a necklace, bells on his legs, and a blanket strip around his waist. He is holding a brush in his hands. The man in the middle is wearing a hat, a choker, a Euro-American shirt, and a strip of fur around his neck. The second man from the right is wearing a hat, arm bands, a necklace, a Euro-American shirt, and a blanket around his waist. The man on the far right is wearing a Euro-American shirt, a choker, a necklace, arm bands, a sash, a strip of fur around his waist, a blanket strip around his waist, and bells attached to his ankles. His hair is tied into two braids. Two of the men are identified as Paul Showaway and Francis Lincoln of the Umatilla tribe. The two women are seated on blankets in the front row. The woman on the left is wearing a cornhusk hat, earrings, a necklace, and a shirt with hanging beads. Her hair is tied into two braids. A beaded item lays on the ground in front of her. A feathered headdress is on the ground to the left of her. The woman on the right is wearing earrings, a choker, and a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. A Euro-American dress is visible underneath the blanket. Her hair is tied into two braids. A beaded item with a floral design is on the ground in front of her. A feathered headdress is on the ground to the right of her. A few trees are visible in the background behind the canvas lodge.
An outside photograph of two Native American women posing in front of a plain blanket backdrop. They are standing on a round flat coiled cedar root mat that is on a Pendleton blanket. To the right of the backdrop is a wooden walkway. In the background are deciduous trees and the hazy outlines of miscellaneous buildings. Both women have their hair in braids and are wearing cornhusk hats with a "v-shaped" geometric design. The woman on the pair's left has been identified as Ruth Coyote; she is dressed in a fringed, short-sleeve, beaded buckskin dress. Decorative beads are attached to the fringes on her shirtsleeves, knee and hem areas. She is wearing a necklace and a choker. She has bracelets on both arms and an armband on her left arm. She has a beaded belt and is holding a beaded bag in her left hand with the design of a deer. From under her dress can be seen leggings and beaded moccasins. The woman on the right is wearing circular earrings, and a cloth dress with decorative beads that extend below her waist. There are beads on her shoulders and bells at the end of her three-quarter length sleeves. She has a wide beaded belt. She has a bracelet on her right wrist and is holding a cornhusk bag in her right hand. She has beaded moccasins and may have bells at the hem of her dress., 'Umatilla Belles.' Billy Barnhart's camp on the Umatilla. [Lucy Luton and Ruth Coyote, Cayuse tribal women.]
Three Native American girls, of the Umatilla Tribe, are standing on top of the gate of a small wooden dam over a river. The young woman on the left has a pendleton blanket wrapped around herself. She is wearing a headdress with feathers and her hair is loosely tucked under the blanket. The young woman in the middle also has a pendleton blanket wrapped around herself. She has two long braids and is carrying a woven bag over one arm. The design on the bag is of a deer and two flowers. The young woman on the right is wearing a buckskin dress with a belt and a woven cornhusk hat. The dress has two tiers of beaded fringe. She has two arm band style bracelets on her wrist and forearm; the one on her forearm is copper. All three girls are wearing beaded moccasins. The dam spans an inlet between the bank and a sandbar. There is a pile of rocks on the sand on both sides of the dam. The background of the image shows more of the river, a wooden dock or platform, and some shrubs and deciduous trees., Umatilla Indian girls 1904 [Three Umatilla girls in regalia, standing by irrigation flume. One wears bear claw circlet, one has cornhusk bag with deer, one wears cornhusk hat and shoulder-beaded dress with dangles.]
An interior photograph of a young woman dressed in Native American regailia posing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop. Her hair is unbound and she is wearing either a choker or short necklace around her neck. She has a wide metal armband on her right arm. She is wearing a beaded buckskin dress with fringe on the neckline, sleeve ends, seams, and possibly hemline. There are decorative beads attached to the fringe. She is wearing a beaded leather belt and has multiple bracelets on both wrists.
An outside photograph of a Native American woman posing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop. She has been identified as Ruth Coyote. She is standing on a round flat coiled cedar root mat that is lying on a Pendleton blanket. To the right of the backdrop is a wooden walkway. She has her hair in braids and is wearing a cornhusk hat with a "v-shaped" geometric design. She is dressed in a fringed, short-sleeved, beaded buckskin dress. Beads are attached to the fringes on her shirtsleeves, knee and hem areas. There are rows of decorative beads that extend from her shoulders down the front of her dress. She is wearing a necklace and a choker. She has bracelets on both arms and an armband showing on her right arm. She has a beaded belt that has a square geometric design. She is holding a beaded bag in her right hand that has the design of a deer. From under her dress can be seen leggings and beaded moccasins., Umatilla Maiden [Ruth Coyote, Cayuse woman. She wears a beaded buckskin dress with dangles, bear claw necklace, cornhusk hat, beaded moccasins, and holds bag with deer design. Moorhouse yard.]
