Souvenir album of noted Indian photographs

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THE PETER AND ROSELL HARVEY

MEMORIAL FUND

SOUVENIR ALBUM OF NOTED
INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHS

By MAJOR LEE MOORHOUSE

PENDLETON, OREGON.

COPYRIGHTED 1 906
By Lee Moorhouse

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Pendleton, Oregon

Jin Indian tepee in the wilderness,
The lonely outpost of a dying race
That once Were strong and conquerors of men;
^Perhaps some sachem, faring westward ever,
His tribe dispersed, his gaudy braves all gone,
Hath reared his nomad home in this far place.
Tif mote from striving men and (he fierce world
Here museth he upon the days that were
Before an alien people drove him forth
And all his tribe to wander and to die;
Here museth he upon the days that Were
'Uhat mooeth ever toward the western sea,
Like his own drioen people — there to cease.
Perhaps some Indian maiden in this place
Dreameth the blushing dreams of maidenhood,
Hopeful as youth, not thinking of the past.

— Eustace- Cullinan.

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The Indian's Reverie.

Darkly and moodily by the wild Water,

Tossing their mists at his feet on the shore,
'Dreams the lone son of the war chieftain's daughter,—

Dreams of the glory of tribesmen of yore!
'Vanished the lodges that decked the green mountain.

Silent the song from the tepee and plain,
Cometh no warriors to drink from the fountain,

Cometh no shout of the huntsman again!

Thirsting for vengeance the fierce hosts assemble,

Wildly they're chanting the battle-mad hymn;
Ah, but the war trails beneath the hoofs tremble,

They gather like clouds on the horizon's rim!
Far in the distance the tepees are guarded;

War steeds are tethered and signal fires bright-
Down the dim trails like an eagle from heaven,

Sweeps the wild horde on the foeman at night.

Yet, as he lingers in silence and listens,

There, where the Cascades make merry all day;
Watches and Wails where the tinted mist glistens,

He hears the wild shouts of the children at play;
Tfjsing before him the dim, clustered legions,

Spreading in glory upon the broad place
Teeming with Warriors the desolate regions, —

Ah, in his dream he bsholds the old race!

Then the closed eyes of the dreanier are opened —

Only the music and mist of the stream,
Only the mountains forbidding and lonely,

Only the flush of a heartbreaking dream.
Singing so blithely the TumWater whispers —

"/ am the voice and the spirit of yore!
Here let the redman in reverie linger,

Dream and drink deeply my song, evermore!"

— Bert Huffman.

Tumwater Falls on the Columbia River.

Wal-lu-lah.

Ere the pale face saw the Westland in its grandeur by

the sea,
Lived a dusky Indian princess, fair as fairest flower to

see!
By Columbia's thundering Cascades, o'er the beauteous

upland plain,
Wandered lone the fair Wal-lu-lah, chanting e'er

some wild refrain.

suitors thronged about her, pleaded for

lu-lah's hand,
But she wept her absent lover — pointed to yon western

strand!
By Columbia's murmuring Cascades, long and lone her

tireless quest.
Now she sleeps, but still awaits him with her face to

ward the West!
Drifting sands above her mingle, happy homes bedeck

her plain,
But her spirit sings and murmurs in Columbia's wild

refrain.

— Bert Huffman.

U-ma-pine.

Wal-lu-lah.

Chief Joseph the Younger.

Chief Joseph the Younger, was one of the
greatest Indians of the Pacific Coast, and well
merits a place in history. He was hereditary
chief of the Nez Perce Indians and was born at
the mouth of the Imnaha river in what is now
Wallowa county, Oregon, in June, 1837, and
died at his lonely place of exile on the Colville
reservation, in Northern Washington, on Sept
ember 21, 1904, at the age of 67.

The most remarkable period in the history of
Joseph's life was his conduct of the Nez Perce
war in 1877. With a barrd of warriors, women
and children, he held at bay and successfully
evaded for three months the United State troops
sent against him under General Howard, and
was only captured at last at Bear Paw Mountain,
in Northern Montana, by the intervention of
Colonel Nelson A. Miles, with a strong force of
fresh troops from Fort Keogh, Montana.

The retreat and running fight of Joseph's band
of warriors in this war was the most remarkable
in the history of Indian warfare. He was held a
prisoner of war from the time of his capture in

1877, until his death, having spent nine years
in the Indian Territory. He was never allowed
to look upon the Wallowa valley for which he
fought the Nez Perce war. Joseph, and his
brother, Olicut, inherited the name and power of
his father. Old Joseph called the two sons to his
death bed and requested them to hold forever the
beautiful Wallowa valley, in Oregon, and it was
in defense of this valley and protest against its
settlement by the whites that the famous Nez
Perce war was fought.

Joseph was a wise and just Indian and was as
resourceful in council as in war, and the one
burning desire of his life was to look upon the
valley of his youth which his father had left him
as a heritage and for1 the defense of which Joseph
the Younger became a prisoner and an exile from
his people. He died on the Colville reservation,
surrounded'by a band of his intimate friends who
never deserted him. A splendid monument
erected by the state of Washington now marks
his grave..

Paul Show-a-way, Hereditary Chief of Cayuses.

Chief Joseph of Nez Perces.

The Lone Tepee.

How cold and bleak the barren wastes appear;
No singing birds, no beauteous flowers to greet
The dying year with clouds of fragrance sweet.
No fresh surprise, no fondling, keen delight —
Only the weight of fast descending night,
Only an awe, almost afon to fear.
jJfar the sun and far the gloomy sky,
jQnd silence, save for whispers, all around;
No graceful trees, no broods go laughing by,
No signs of life; no merry, joyful sound.
Cold and deserted, 'gainst the sombre sky.
The lonely tepee of a brace appears;
We pass in silence with a whispered sigh,
j4nd offer all T»e have — our tears!

Statue in Bronze.

The Lone Tepee.

Lament of the Umatilla.

Spirit of the Yesterday •

Hovers near and croons;
Brings my heart the hunting grounds

Of the long lost Junes!
Sings of years forgotten,

Chants of races dead —
Weep my wond'ring baby,

For the good moons fled!

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By the silvery river

A II your race has died
Sleep and dream niy baby,

By its lisping tide!
Comes no more the huntsman

From the glorious chase —
O'er yon templed mountains

Swarms the paler face!

III.

Harty I hear a whisper
Calling from the past!

Hear the Warrior's frenzied cry
On the tempest cast!

Hush, my heart, and listen!
Calling, calling still!

Ah, 'tis but the moaning wind

O'er the silent hill!

IV.

Hark,! the hurried hoofbeats
Of the Warrior band!

Ah, my heart betrays me
In this empty land!

Sleep and dream, my baby,
By the tepee fire!

Nothing for thy kindling hope-
Nothing to desire!

V.

Broken, let thy young heart ache!

Crushed, thy spirit brood!
What to thee the while man's ways?

Worse than solitude!
By a dying watch fire,

Crooning in the night —
Let he Vanquished tribesmen

'Pass from human sight.

— Bert Huffman.

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SACAJAWEA.

The following poem, written by Bert Huff
man, editor of the EastOregonian, of Pendle-
ton, Oregon, and dedicated to the Shoshone
Indian girl who guided Lewis and Clark across
the Rocky Mountains, was first published in
the East Oregonian in May, 1904, and since
that time has been published in all the leading

Behind them toward the rising sun

The traversed wildernesses lay —
j4boiit them gathered — one by one

The baffling mysteries of their way!
To Westward, yonder, peak °n peak

The glistening ranges rose and fell, —
Ah, but among that hundred paths

Which led aright? Could any tell?

papers in the East and Northwest, besides
having been recited over 200 times in women's
club meetings and Sacajawea Monument As
sociation entertainments. It was recited by
Mrs. George H. Pettinger at the unveiling of
the Sacajawea monument at the Lewis and
Clark Fair, Portland, Ore., on July 6, 1905:

Lewis and Immortal Clark!

Bold spirits of that best Crusade,
You gave the matting world the spark

That thronged the empire-paths you made!
{But standing on that snowy height,

Where Westward yon mild rivers Tohirl,
The guide who led your hosts aright

Was that barefoot Shoshone girl!

You halted by those dim arcades —

You faltered by those baffling peaks —
You doubled in those pathless glades,

But ever, ever true she speaks/
Where lay the perilous snows of Spring,

Where streams their westward course forsook,
The wildest mountain haunts to her

Were as an open picture-book/

Where'er you turned in wonderment

In that wild empire, unsurveyed,
Unerring still, she pointed West —

Unfailing, all your pathways laid!
She nodded towards the setting sun —

She raised a finger toward the sea —
The closed gales opened, one by one,

And showed the path of Destiny!

The wreath of Triumph give to her;

She led the conquering Captains West;
She charted first the trails that led

The hosts across yon mountain crest!
Barefoot, she toiled the forest paths,

Where now the course of Empire speeds.
Can you forget, loved Western land,

The glory of her deathless deeds?

In yonder ci!y, glory crowned,

Where art will vie with art to £eep
The memories of those heroes green —

The flush of condous pride should leap
To see her fair memorial stand

jlmong the honored names that be —
Her face toward the sunset sfill, —

Her finger lifted tywards the sea!

Beside you on Fame's pedestal,

Be hers the glorious fate to stand —
Bronzed, barefoot, yet a patron saint,

The keys of empire in her hand!
The mountain gates thai closed to you

Swung open, as she lead the way, —
So let her lead that hero host

When comes their glad memorial day!

Pe-tow-ya, a Cayuse Patriarch.

IE-TOW-YA, a Cayuse squaw of the
Umatilla reservation, lived to be 114
years of age, having died on the reservation
near Pendleton in 1902.

She remembered having seen the Lewis
and Clark expedition as it passed eastward
up the Columbia river after having spent the
winter near Astoria. She once related to
Major Lee Moorhouse her remembrance of
York, the colored servant who accompanied
the Lewis and Clark expedition. She said
that although she was but a girl of 12 or 13
at the time, she ventured to get close enough

to the big black man to wet her finger tips
and rub his skin to ascertain if it was real
skin or just a paint on the negro. Her
wonder was excited when she found that it
would not "rub off."

She was reared in the vicinity of Pendle
ton, Umatilla and Wallula and was finally
allotted on the Umatilla reservation, where
she passed the last years of her life. She
was the last of the old Cayuse tribe to
speak the pure Cayuse language. This
limpid language was formerly one of the
most widely spoken of any of the Indian
languages in the Northwest.

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Dr. Whirlwind.

Dr. Whirlwind, or Shap-lish, one of the most
prominent and historic Indian characters in the
West, is now 81 years old and is yet as straight
as an arrow and shows his great age but slightly.

He was born on the banks of the beautifu
Umatilla in 1824, and when the Whitman mass
acre occurred in 1847, was a young man of 23.
He knew Dr. Whitman and when the news of
the massacre reached the Umatilla river where
Whirlwind lived, he was one of a party of friend
ly Indians to go to the mission and verify the
truth of the report of the massacre. He remem
bers the awful scene which met the gaze of the
friendly Indians as they neared the burned
mission. The murdered victims were scattered
about the premises and the once prosperous
and happy mission was in ruins.

Whirlwind says that is was not the Indians
who incited the murder of the Whitman party,
and grows indignant when he speaks of that
tragedy.

During the "Sheepeater" campaign in the Sal
mon river mountains in Idaho, in 1879, Whirl

wind was chief of scouts for the United States
government and was instrumental in capturing
that murderous band of renegade Indians.

With 20 faithful Indian scouts, in which party
were a number of still living Umatilla Indians,
including Peo, Captain Sum-kin, Talou-kiakts,
Seu-sips, To-ki-e-kan and Homily, accompanied
by Lieutenant Farrow and five white soldiers,
Whirlwind went into the almost inaccessible
mountains on Salmon river in Northern Idaho,
and after a hard chase in which brilliant Indian
strategy was used on his part, succeeded in cap
turing the entire force of the murderous
"Sheepeaters."

The "Sheepeaters" were renegade Snake
river and Piute Indians which infested the rug
ged mountains and raided the scattering settle
ments, murdering whites and stealing stock on
every hand. White soldiers had tried in vain to
capture or dislodge the murderous band, but it
was not until Whirlwind and his Umatilla scouts
invaded the fastnesses that they were captured.

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The Song of the Bow.

To the Master of all the woods I came

Where a forest monarch stood.
"O, give me," I cried, "for a warrior's fame

Jl bow of the sacred wood;
Of the sacred cedar that lifts and sings

On the high reared cliff where the eagle Kings.

Then the God of the Forest answered me:

"O, son of a prophet's line,
Not only a bow from the sacred tree,

But the song of it, too, be thine,
The Voice of the cedar thy bow shall own

To sing all songs that the air hath known. "

I climbed to the cliff where the eagles nest

jJnd clave at the cedar's hide:
I ripped me a rib from its bleeding breast

jJnd bore it away in pride:
I hewed it and shaped it from noon till noon,

Jlnd it shone in my eye like a new-born moon.

And now if I rest in the purple light

When the Autumn day is done,
Or follow the panther up niountain height,

Or steal where the mild deer run,
Or fly with my steed, or plunge in the sea,

My bow hath ever a voice to me.

My bow sings ever in sun and rain,

As soft as the river's flow,
To tell of the spirits of mood and plain

only the soul may know,
my hands on the stars of the sky take hold
And all of the world to my heart I fold.

- Charles Eugene Banks.

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Way of the Umatilla.

The Umatilla laughing and singing,

Flows to the Columbia below
Among the tall pines like a silver thread

As a 'wayward child to it's mother is led
'Uo the Bridge of the Gods it would go.

Mayhap the river is seeding

As we of earth seek higher spheres —

Like the children of earl h it is jostled and tossed
On the pathways of fate till its yearning is lost

In the far afaay ocean of years.

— Lula R. Lorenz.

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The Medicine Man.

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Alone he stands in primal solitude,

In grace a child, in majesty a king,
jlfar his people wait nor dare intrude

Where he invites the spirits counseling.
Long days of fasting in the solemn wood;

Long nights of gazing on the tranquil stars,
Have purified the passions in his blood

jJnd made a Moses of a son of Mars.
Jin instrument of twice ten thousand strings

To Nature's ruthm delicately attuned,
He trills responsive to the noiseless Mings

Of messengers with whom he has communed.
Then suddenly a subtle essence flows

Through all his being, and he all things knows.
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Camp of Indians on

Umatilla Reservation.

Umatilla County Old and New.

It is late October. The noonday sun still re
tains suggestions of its mid -summer ardor but
the mornings and evenings have a touch of the
north — a hint of frost is in the air. Perfect days
are followed by no less perfect nights.

Before the sun has disappeared behind the
bare brown hills the full round moon looks palely
from the eastern sky. The air is hazy and in
the west the clouds are banked in heavy masses
of beauty. With their everchanging tints which
constantly merge and blend into new color
schemes they are fair as an artist's dream. Dusk
does not follow twilight; instead there comes a
milder day of moonlight and starlight. Here on
these rolling hills of Eastern Oregon the stars
seem nearer and brighter than elsewhere.

Pause for a moment on the summit of this little

knoll and look about you. In all directions may
be seen the golden stubble or the rich brown of
the newly-plowed earth. No need to turn to the
musty pages of your histories to read of the
"Field of the Cloth of Gold" that famous meet
ing place of the French and English kings, for
here before you, mile on mile, toward the far
horizon stretches a limitless field of gold. Not
only is the high wheat stubble golden in its au
tumn dress, but to the farmer it has yielded a
rich store of gold, for these fertile fields are well
termed "golden acres."

Turn your gaze southward. Scattered across
the well -worked field are sacks of grain. They
look like soldiers lying where they fell as they
charged across the plowed ground. A seeder is
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the field, leaving in its wake long rows of
mathematically straight lines where it has de
posited the wheat. Here it will lie awaiting the
vivifying, life-giving touch of Nature's kindly
forces - the sun and the rain, the frosts and the
thaws.

Here and there is a field of Fall -sown grain al
ready showing a touch of vivid emerald against
the rich brown earth. Ere long it will settle
down for its long sleep of winter, protected by its
coat of eiderdown, its snowy mantle. Next
May will see the tiny shoots knee high, full of
ripening beauty before the breezes of spring.
But now, one must plant in faith and in faith see
the heavy-headed grain of the summer to come.
Now Nature is at rest. After a season of growth
and fruition, after a bountiful harvest Nature has
paused before her Winter trance. She sits in
the gloaming with folded hands after the heat

and stress of her summer day's -work. She is
basking in the mellow beauty of a Calm and rest
ful Indian Summer. Thistledown and milk weed
seed drift by toward unknown harbors. From
every gatepost stream the tiny cables of the busy
spiders. The sheen and shimmer of silver is
seen where the sunshine glints on the interlac
ing threads that run from weed to weed. The
thick-standing stubble is a gleam with the filmy
gossamer lace-work. Here by the stream one
may see Nature's annual miracle. Here Nature,
the greatest and most ancient of alchemists, has
transmuted the green of the leaf into gold or
crimson. Moses saw the burning bush aflame
yet unconsumed. Here we see the miracle re
produced a thousand fold.

Against the grey trunks and yellow leaves of
the poplar, the sumacs flame a vivid crimson
ablaze with color yet unconsumed. The haw

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and chokecherry are glad in Highland plaid.
Against their many-hued coats the purple clus
ters of the elderberry stand out sharply. Here
on the grassy banks of the Umatilla are a group
of smoke-stained tepees, from which the smoke
is curling up. By yonder spring Whirlwind was
was born four score years ago, long before the
first wagon creaked its way across the unknown
desert to the shores of the western sea. The
Indians are here yet, picturesque, dignified, but
the old regime has passed away.

The French Canadian trapper and his batteau
are both dust. The Hudson Bay trader and his
buckskin-clad men have taken the long trail, the
one-way trail whose travelers return no more.
The war path and the buffalo are both but

memory. About the lodge fire the chief dreams
of the departed glory of his tribe. His lodge
fire died down to embers. Soon he too will
go over the divide to the happy hunting
grounds to the land of the departed. Where Peo
ruled the council of his braves the school house
of the paleface stands. Where the beaver built
his dam now gleams the pumpkin- among the
shocked corn. Here as of old the magpies are
chattering in the patch of sarvis berry bushes.
A bob white skurries to shelter beneath the brush.
The red apples are gleaming redly from their
carpet of orchard grass, the amber liquid flows
from the cider press, the big bronze turkeys are
strutting in the barnyard. Plenty and prosperi
ty reign in old Umatilla. — Fred Lockley.

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The Mound on the Hilltop.

In the coulee below me are half a dozen tepees.
Here and there may be seen a squaw gathering
firewood, while the men, vivid patches of color
in their gaudy blankets, sit in front of their lod
ges smoking in dignified silence. Near at hand
the ponies are grazing. On the crest of the hill
are several small mounds.

When I gain the crest of the hill I find the
mounds to be graves. Here is a little mound.
Upon it lies a few simple toys and a pair of tiny
moccasins. Here some Indian mother has left
her little one, part of her very life. She has
gone down from this hilltop leaving her baby
here, bearing in her heart a wound that time
may heal, but the scar of which will ever remain.
Her little one that had scarcely been out of her
sight — to leave it on this lonely hilltop alone!

As she lays the little muccasin and clothing
upon the grave, as she puts the playthings there,
what are her thoughts? Her little one will be

lonesome in that far land in that great beyond.
The spirit of these things that he knew and lov
ed here will go with him to serve him in the hap
py hunting grounds. Since he has gone she
often looks at the western skies when they are
tinged with the glory of the dying day. Far in
the West, beyond the sunset, in that unknown
land of the spirts, is her child.

Her arms are so empty — she stretches them
out toward the mysterious West. Her eyes are
dim, her cheeks are wet. This little one was to
have been a great warrior. How proud she
would have been of him! The red in the West
fades to neutral tints of grey. The wind arises
as the twilight falls. Far off she hears the long
drawn mournful wail of a dog. She draws her
blanket close about her and with bowed head she
leaves the hilltop. Slowly darkness gathers and
blots out the rounded mounds.

— Fred Lockley.

The Old Emigrant Road.

j*Jged and desolate, grizzled and still,

It creeps in slow curves round the base of the hill;

Of its once busy traffic is left little trace,

Not a hoof-print or wheel-track is fresh on its face.

ff^anlf brambles encroach on its poor, ragged edge,
And bowlders crash down from the mountainside ledge;
The elements Join to efface the dim trail,
T?he torrents of springtime, the winter's fierce gale;

Yet, with pioneer sturdiness, patient and still,
It lingers and clings round the base of the hill:
Outlasting its usefulness, furrowed and gray,
Gaunt phantom of Yesterday: haunting 'Uo-day.

— Carrie Blal^e Morgan.

IVo-ho-pum and Papoose.

The Chinook Wind.

White and cold was the robe that lay
Over the Oregon hills away;
Coldly the mountain's lifted face
Q learned in its wintry crown's embrace.
'Uhe white-robed hill as a sentinel stands
Lifee a waiting nun with folded hands:
Hushed is the pulse of the singing stream,
Coldly brilliant the forests gleam;
Wierd and ghastly, with frozen lips
The earth front its flagon of Silence sips;
The heart of the hills beats low, beats low,
For cruel and heavy its burden of snow ;
The Voice of the hills is faint, is faint,
But never is lifted in sad complaint,
For a patient jade is (he humble earth
Meekly waiting the Springtime's birth!
Jlnd then on the western sea afar,
The Gate of the Winds is left ajar,

And softly stealing on timid wing,
A soft wind comes from the Garden of Spring!
And oh, the kiss of her passionate mouth,
Warm with the breath of the languorous South!
And oh, the touch of her thrilling hand,
Soft as a lover's upon the land!
She steals to the wintry tyrant's lair
And tangles her fingers into his hair;
Her hot breath k'sses his pallid cheek —
His lips of Silence in wonder speak!
And oh, how the quivering touch of her hand
Stirs and awakens the pulseless land!
Jlnd oh, how the heart of the World leaps wild
By the Warm Chinook of the West beguiled!
For Life and Wonderment, Joy and Spring
jJre the gifts that her pinions ever bring!

—Serf Huffman.

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FAIR OREGON

/ know not whence thy mystery came,
Nor whence the niagic of thy name,
Thou haunted land of whispering pine,
Whose heart beats answer unto mine!
So near to thee my spirit dwells,
Its every mood mine own foretells;
Thy Very shadows have the art
Of leaving imprint on my heart,
jflnd where thy myriad minstrels sing
There doth my answering anthem ring!
Thou sainted land where sleep the brave
Crowned and embraced by cloud and wave,
For thee I would all perils meet,
For thee the wildest deserts greet,
Or breast yon sea where hearts grow faint,
Or barefoot, thread without complaint,
The fartheresl borders 'nealh the sun
If but for thee it needs be done!

— Bert Huffman.

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Moorhouse Collection of Indian Curios.

The article prized most highly by Major Moor-
house, and which stands at the head of the list
of curios in his large collection of Indian relics
and curios, is a buckskin war dress, elaborately
beaded and decorated with a large number of
scalp locks, both Indian and white. One lock
attracts unusual attention because of its soft
brown color and is undoubtedly that of a white
woman.

The history of this suit is that in a battle be
tween the Crows and Sioux Indians near Fort
Union, Mont., in 1865, a Sioux chief wearing
this suit was killed by the Crows.

Lieutenant Charles Buckner, Co. 1, 30th regi
ment Wisconsin volunteers, was with the Crows
in the battle, and because of his bravery the
Crows stripped the suit from the dead war chief
of the Sioux and after arraying Buckner in it,
presented it to him in token of the esteem of the
victorious Crow warriors.

Major Moorhouse secured the suit a number of
years ago from members of Lieutenant Buckner's
. family in Pendleton.

The suit consists of a buckskin garment for the
body, beaded and decorated with scalps, an otter
skin cap or head dress and a large otter skin qui-

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ver for arrows and with the suit is seen the dead
chieftain's strong and artistic war bow, with
which he was able to pierce the body of a man
at 50 yards.

It is highly prized by Major Moorhouse because
of the fact that it has seen actual service and was
worn by a murderous Sioux, who was perhaps a
terror to the white settlers for years on the
Montana frontier.

Another war suit now owned by Major Moor-
house is one worn by Young William Sitting Bull,
a nephew of Sitting Bull, and supposed to have
been in the Custer massacre. It is an elaborate
suit of buckskin with ornaments and grotesque art
and is a valuable possession.

A historic war bonnet worn by the Peo family,

including Chief We-nap-snoot, father of the
present Chief Peo of the Umatillas, and also by
Peo himself, in his palmy days on the Umatilla
reservation, is another highly prized possession
in the Moorhouse collection. The family of chief
tains to which Peo belongs, was historic in the
inland emprire and took part in making history
and for this reason the war bonnet, an heirloom
of the family, has great historic value.

It is made of eagles feathers and reaches from
the head to the ground, when the wearer is sitting
on horseback, making it an imposing and artis
tic dress.

A number of other beautiful and elaborate war
bonnets are found in the collection, many of
which have historic interest because of the part

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they have played in the wars of the west.

Another article of peculiar interest is the dress
of an old Indian woman, a most elaborate gar
ment, ornamented with beads sold by the Hudson
Bay trappers on the Pacifice coast 75 years ago,
and not seen in any markets on the Pacifiic coast
for the past 50 years

It required months to make this buckskin suit,
because of its tedious bead work and intricate
parts, and since it represents the better work
manship of the Indians of the Umatilla reserva
tion almost a century ago, it has intrinsic value.

A wedding robe of black velvet, trimmed with
pink satin and beautifully beaded in fantastic
figures and designs, and decorated with hiqua
shells, is another valuable relic of the old-time
Indian of the inland empire. This robe is made

full length, and while the colors and figures are
strikng, it would scarcely be selected by a
modern bride as part of her trousseau,

Representing in the highest degree the handi
work of the Indian women of the northwest, is a
large collection of grass caps and baskets and an
especially fine collection of baby boards, or Indian
cradles, made of buckskin and beautifully beaded.
The skill and taste shown in construction of the
baby boards is remarkable, and this is a very
valuable part ot the Moorhouse collection.

Peculiar interest attaches to a cavalry sword
from the Custer battle fiield. This relic was
presented to Major Moorhouse by Col. E. S.
Godfrey, formerly of the famous Seventh cavalry,
who secured it from a Sioux chieftain soon after
the Custer battle.

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Securing Indian Photographs.

jEARS of close friendship, association
and confidence are necessary to secure
photographs from the Western Indian tribes.
They are extremely superstitious and
strangers may spend weeks before getting
a picture worth developing.

The women and children have an especi
ally strong prejudice against the camera and
it is not uncommon to see them turn their
backs upon the amateur photographer who
goes among them snapping promiscuously.
After close acquaintance they become more
reconciled to it, but even then are usually
more or less afraid of its mysteries.

On the reservation in their native sur
roundings the Indians are stolid, taciturn,
haughty and unyielding toward the stranger
who goes among them with a photographic
outfit. It is well nigh impossible to secure
consent to photograph an Indian unless the
artist is vouched for by some one in the
confidence of the Indian.

And after you once have gained the en
tire confidence of the Indian and can secure
a pose at your request, then the trouble
has only actually begun.

Although the Indian wears but few gar
ments, yet each must be in exact place,
without a flaw, wrinkle, or crooked line.

The hair must be arranged in the most fas
tidious manner, the moccasins must be
immaculate and the. clothes " just so."

It requires at least three hours for an
Indian woman to prepare properly to have
her picture taken. If a white woman used
as long a time in proportion to the number
of garments worn, it would require a day to
properly array her for pose.

The Indians, both men and women, are
extremely vain and give much attention to
their personal appearance when posing for a
picture. The women stain their faces more
or less and put on all the gaudy beads, dec
orations, shining spangles and bright colors
at their command.

The men bring out their newest blankets
and comb and braid their hair with great
care before submitting to a pose. After an
Indian once becomes infatuated with the
idea of having his photograph taken, it be
comes a mania. He then visits the studio
of the photographer friend frequently and is
always willing and even anxious to pose.

Such cases, however, are extremely rare.
Most of the members of the various tribes
shun the camera, and it is only through the
most tactful management that a natural,
unembarrassed pose can be secured.

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