Pawnee Indians Watching the Caravan

  • Miller painted a version of this for his Baltimore patron, William Walters, around 1858. He wrote similarly about both iterations, that the Pawnee deserved extremely close watching or one’s horses would disappear. For Alexander Brown he wrote that both Indian and Anglo were constantly watching each other, one as predator and one as potential prey. “When we were ‘en routé,’ we were continually under surveillance. From the tops of the bluffs, behind rocks, and out of the long grass of the prairie, they watched us ….” (Bell, 136)

    Peter H. Hassrick

    Artist
    Alfred Jacob Miller
    Date
    ca. 1867
    Catalogue Number
    397C
    Medium
    Watercolor, gouache, and pen ink over pencil on paper
    Inscriptions

    LL: AJMiller 

    Dimensions
    11 11/16 x 9 1/2 (29.7 x 24.1 cm)
    Accession Number
    1946-138 PIC 00001
    Subjects
    Indians, Pawnee Indians

    The artist; [?]; Alexander Brown, Liverpool, England, 1867; by descent to Mrs. J.B. Jardine, Chesterknows, Scotland; present owner