Caption on back of photograph reads: This study shows a Shinnecock man standing in front of a native type of cellar or barn as the Shinnecocks called them. This cellar was made by digging holes four or five feet deep and roofing them with poles, thatch or huge chunks of sod, and braced on the outside with poles. A framework of poles inside held the sod in place. Early Southampton colonists used to complain that deserted Indian cellar holes were a menace to their cattle who often fell in the holes and broke legs. John Henry Thompson, an excellent Indian type, was part French. His family have had a tendency to preserve their Indian blood in a tenacious manner. One daughter Lillian, married Ernest Harvey, a Shinnecock. Another Alice, married James Philips, who represented the strongest Indian strain among the Poosepatuks of Mastic. Two sons, Harry deceased, was a strong believer in Indian tradition and married a Shinnecock of Connecticut while August, is married to a Shinnecock of the Carl family of strong Indian stock. Two of John Henry Thompson's great granddaughters have married white men and live away from the reservation. His granddaughter, Effie, married a Wampanoag Indian from Mashpee, Cape Cod.