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| Keywords: Alfred Jacob Miller - Ma-wo-ma - Walters 37194035.jpg Ma-wo-ma whose name was somewhat misleading because it translates Little Chief was leader of the approximately three thousand Snake Indians many of whom came to the rendezvous He was decidedly in every sense superior to any Indian that we had met Miller declared He was a man of high principle in whom you could place confidence Miller and Ma-wo-ma were both artists neither terribly appreciative of the other's work I noticed that all four of the legs of the horses were on one side Miller observed of one of Ma-wo-ma's paintings This arose from a want of knowledge of perspective He also colored them with the stick end of a brush instead of the hair end - not probably having seen before an article of this kind A running commentaary was kept up while he proceeded with the drawing There was a little more of the 'ego' than good taste might have dictated but it sat with exceeding grace on our excellent friend Ma-Wo-Ma And the interpreter so far from softening no doubt exaggerated- as such gentry are wont to do Ma-wo-ma criticized Miller's work for being too much like the vulgar and familiar species of art that he could see in his looking glass between 1858 1860 watercolor and gouache on tan paper cm 31 1 24 1 accession number 37 1940 35 13734 William T Walters Baltimore 1858-1860 by commission Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Commissioned by William T Walters 1858-1860 Alfred Jacob Miller An Artist on the Oregon Trail place of origin USA Walters Art Museum license 2D Alfred Jacob Miller An Artist on the Oregon Trail 19th-century watercolor paintings in the United States Portrait paintings of men of the United States Paintings of Native Americans by Alfred Jacob Miller Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
