• Title:

    An-na Chief Peo's mother

  • Description:

    Outdoor portrait of Ipna Solatoh, Chief Peo's mother, posing against a tree trunk. She wears a shawl with a repeating pattern and a head scarf.

  • Culture/People:

    Cayuse

  • Date created:

    1905

  • Photographer:

    Major Lee Moorhouse (Thomas Leander Moorhouse), Non-Indian, 1850-1926

  • Place:

    Oregon; USA

  • Format/Object name:

    Silver gelatin print

  • Collection History/Provenance:

    Lee Moorhouse took up photography as a hobby in 1888 and--during his life as a rancher, engineer, businessman, military officer, and Indian agent--documented life in the Pacific Northwest, including Native people. This print is from an album of Moorhouse photographs formerly in the collection of Grace Schlotterback; acquired by MAI at an unknown date.

  • Dimensions:

    4.5 x 7 in.

  • Catalog number:

    P27388

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