Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes
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Yeeh-Ye

Alternative Title
  • Yee-Yee, Umatilla indian, with various costumes and implements, including war bonnet, pipe
  • PH036_4075
Tribal Title
  • Yeeh-Ye
Photographer
Date
  • 1900/1910
Description
  • An outside photograph of a Native American man identified as Yee-ye. He is standing in front of an unadorned blanket backdrop hanging from a wooden frame. He is wearing moccasins and standing upon a round flat coil mat that is lying on another blanket on the ground. To the left of the man there is a pipe on the blanket. He is wearing a porcupine roach with one eagle feather on his head. His hair is braided, with fur strips braided into or extending the natural length of his braids. He is wearing a neck choker and a multi-layered loop necklace. He is dressed in a buckskin shirt that has a beaded strip down both sides of his shoulders. The ends of his sleeves and shirt are fringed. He is holding an eagle tail fan, wrapped in leather, in his left hand. The eagle feather has long leather strips decorated in beads. He is wearing a woven plaid cloth strip around his waist, which hangs over buckskin leggings.
  • Yee-ye Umatilla Indian, with various regalias and implements, and pipe. In Moorhouse yard.
Tribal Notes
  • An outside photograph of a tribal member identified as Yeeh-Ye by the photographer. He is standing in front of a blanket used for a backdrop and dressed up in regalia. He is dressed in a buckskin shirt that has a beaded strip down both sides of his shoulders. On the edge of the beaded strips are pieces of hair on both sides of the shirt. He is also wearing buckskin legging with some ermines on both sides. He is holding an eagle tail fan in his left hand. On his head is a porcupine roach with one eagle feather in the roach. He is standing on a wool blanket and on that is a round flat coil mat. On the edge of the blanket is a pipe leaning against the wooden frame that holds up a blanket backdrop. The writing on the photograph is "Yeeh-Ye" and "Major Moorhouse." In the bottom left corner is the number "4075."
Source Condition
  • silver mirroring
MODS Note
  • Joint Project of the University of Oregon Libraries and the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Subject
Tribal Classes
  • Outside Photograph
  • Buildings
  • Person
  • Regalia
  • Moorhouse Props
Tribal Terms
  • Shirt, Buckskin--Beaded
  • Fan, Eagletail
  • Feather, Eagle
  • Pipe
  • Hider, Blanket
  • Ermines
  • Moccasins, Beaded--Geometric
  • Mat, Coiled Ceder Root
  • Choker
  • Necklace, Loop
  • Leggings, Buckskin
  • Roach, Porcupine
  • Man
Ethnographic Term
Rights
License
Identifier
  • PH036_4075
Repository
Local Collection Name
Local Collection ID
  • PH036 / A82
Series Name
  • Series I: Glass Plate Negatives
Archival Box Number
  • 162
Finding Aid
Version
  • Glass-plate negative
Media
Institution
Submission Date
  • 11/13/2014
Modified
  • 02/06/2025
Resolution
  • 125 dpi
Collections

APA

Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes, University of Oregon. (06 May 2025). Yeeh-Ye Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df665k45g

MLA

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Chicago

Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes, University of Oregon. "Yeeh-Ye" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-05-06. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df665k45g

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Moorhouse, Lee, 1850-1926 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010153709
2 Shirt, Buckskin http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/ShirtBuckskin
3 Necklaces http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090567
4 Fur--Hair Wraps http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/FurHairWraps
5 Roach, Porcupine http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/RoachPorcupine
6 Feathers, Eagle http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/FeathersEagle
7 choker (necklace) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300209298
8 headdress, roach http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300262738
9 Shirt, Buckskin--Beaded http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/ShirtBuckskinBeaded
10 carpets, flag http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300186112
11 Indians of North America http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065184
12 Beads http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012617
13 Yeeh-ye http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/Yeehye
14 prop (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263853
15 Regalia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112334
16 Moccasins http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086397
17 Men http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
18 Pipes (Smoking) http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/graphicMaterials/tgm007846
19 outdoor photographs http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/outdoorphotographs
20 Leggings, Buckskin http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/subject/LeggingsBuckskin
21 fringe http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/ethnographicTerms/afset007489
22 No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
23 Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
24 University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003116678
25 Moorhouse (Major Lee) Photographs http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/MoorhouseMajorLeePhotographs
26 Image http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Image
27 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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