Consists of a cabinet card photograph depicting two Native American cavalrymen in the United States Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment Troop L. Although the two men are unidentified, they are likely Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, or Arapaho. Troop L was comprised of young men from these four indigenous groups of the Great Plains that the United States government forcibly removed to settlements surrounding Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the wake of the Red River War. It is possible that the soldier on the right may be I-See-O (Tahbonemah, Plenty Fires), a Kiowa 1st sergeant and diplomat.

The photograph was taken by David Rodocker (1840-1919), who was based in Winfield, Kansas. An annotation on the back notes that the two men "attended college and were members of the U.S. Army." Their full calvalry field uniforms with insignia and close-cropped haircuts suggest that these young men experienced white colonizers' violent efforts to assimilate indigenous Americans into the invading European culture.