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Souvenir Album of Noted Indian Photographs

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Photographer:
Moorhouse, Lee, 1850-1926  Search this
Names:
A-lom-pum  Search this
Eat-no-meat, Princess  Search this
Etna, Princess  Search this
Fish Hawk, War Chief  Search this
Good-Man  Search this
Ip-na-sol-a-tok  Search this
Joseph, Chief  Search this
Man of the Cayuses  Search this
McKay, Donald  Search this
Pe-tow-ya  Search this
Peo, Chief  Search this
Shap-lish  Search this
Show-a-way, Paul, Chief  Search this
Summer Hair, Rosa  Search this
Tots-homi  Search this
Tox-e-lox  Search this
Tu-slaps, Stella  Search this
U-ma-pine  Search this
Wa-tis-te-me-ne-head  Search this
Wap-a-ne-ta  Search this
We-a-lote, Princess  Search this
We-mix  Search this
Whirlwind, Dr.  Search this
Wo-ho-pum  Search this
Yakima Sally  Search this
Extent:
50 Pages
Culture:
Umatilla  Search this
Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this
Cayuse  Search this
Yakama (Yakima)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
By Major Lee Moorhouse, Pendleton, Oregon, copyrighted 1905. Published album of reproductions of photographs and brief commentary, relating to tribes of northwestern U. S., including Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakima. See also 2nd edition, copyright 1906, in Bureau of American Ethnology Library.
Album page # (1) Portrait of Major Moorhouse. (3) "The Lonely Outpost of a Dying Race" (tipi, with clouds). (5) "Tumwater Falls on the Columbia River". (7) "The Cayuse Twins" A-lom-pum and Tox-e-lox. (9) "The Cayuse Twins". (11-a) "Wal-lu-lah" ("dusky Indian Princess"- doubtful). (11-b) "U-ma-pine"- warrior. (13-a) "Chief Joseph of Nez Perces" (13-b) "Paul Show-a-way, Hereditary Chief of Cayuses". (15) "The Lone Tepee". (17) "Indian Mother and Babe". (19) "Sac-a-ja-wea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone Indian Guide" (doubtful). (21) "Umatilla Reservation, July 4th, 1905." (23-a) "Tots-homi Good Man". (23-b) "Peo, Chief of Umatillas" (Similar to Bureau of American Ethnology Negative 2890-b-16.) (23-c) "Ip-na-sol-a-tok"-- elderly woman. (Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Cayuse: 3073-b-12). (23-d) "Fish Hawk, Head War Chief of Cayuses" (Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Cayuse: 3073-b-7). (25-a) "Bridge of the Gods" (View of Cascades in Columbia River). (25-b) "Indian camp on Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon" (27) "Princess We-a-lote, Cayuse Maiden" (Posed; fake ?) (29) "Mt. Hood, from Cloud Cap Inn."
Album page # (31) "Wa-tis-te-me-ne-head, Man of the Cayuses". (33-a) "Pe-tow-ya/ Cayuse woman who remembers Lewis and Clark" (See Bureau of Anthropology Negative Cayuse: 3073-b-33). (33-b) "Sac-a-je-we-a pointing out the Westward path to Captain Clark" (Re-enacted; fake). (35-a) "Dr Whirlwind" (Umatilla)-- also known as Shap-lish. (See also Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Cayuse: 3073-b-63) (New Smithsonian Institution negative 53508). (35-b) "Princess Etna" (Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Cayuse: 3073-b-35). (35-c) "Donald McKay" (35-d) "Wap-a-ne-ta, the belle of the Umatilla". (39) "Yakima Sally" (Another pose, without hat, is Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number Yakima: 2880-c-13). (41) "Yakima mother and babe". (43-a) "Stella Tu-slaps, Umatilla Girl". (43-b) "Princess Eat-no-meat" (Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number Umatilla 2888-c). (43-c) "Scene on Columbia River, Umatilla Junction" (Mostly tipis). (45) "Rosa Summer Hair and papoose". (47) "Sins of the Redman" (Drinking whiskey). (49) "Wo-ho-pum and papoose". (50-a) "Chief Joseph's home at Nespelim" (Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 2987-b-4). (50-b) "We-mix, sister of Donald McKay, and family (Bureau of American Ethnology Negative 3073-b-79). (50-c) "Young Chief of the Umatilla".
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3426
Local Note:
Filed: Original Prints, "Plateau" box.
Topic:
Photographs  Search this
Umatilla Indians  Search this
Camps  Search this
Umatilla Indians -- (identification uncertain)  Search this
Habitations and other structures -- tipi  Search this
Yakima  Search this
Sahaptin  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3426, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3426
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw33f52527a-a566-4023-8ee7-01f4294b0f59
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3426