Description
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Collective Title: William Drummond Stewart expedition paintings
Image Licence
Public Domain
Image Credit
Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Location
Columbia River, Washington state, USA
Country
USA
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
People & Society
TWW Comment
Chinookan peoples include several groups of indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. They reside along the Lower and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) (″Big River″) from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent portions of the coasts, from Tillamook Head of present-day Oregon in the south, north to Willapa Bay in southwest Washington.