Snake Indian Smoking Pipe in Front of Tipi

Generously provided by Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

Miller apparently described the Indian in this version a Snake Indian (the Shoshone were sometimes called the Snake) and depicted him in an even more highly decorated buffalo robe. Since this picture was a part of the album that Miller made for Stewart in 1837, he has pictured a trapper’s tent behind the main figure at the left center with several trappers and traders, rather than Indians, nearby.

Ron Tyler

Object Information
Provenance

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller

Date

1837

Catalogue Number

331A

Medium

Pencil and watercolor on paper

Inscriptions

UL: 15

Dimensions: 8 x 6 1/2 (20.4 x 16.5 cm)
Accession Number: 37.1940.40
Subjects: Snake Indians

The artist; Sir William Drummond Stewart, ca. 1839; Frank Nichols Stewart, 1871; Bonamy Mansell Power; willed to Edward Power, 1900; by descent to Major G.H. Power, Great Yarmouth, 1966; The Gund Collection of Western Art, Cleveland, OH, 1973; present owner

Snake Indian Smoking Pipe in Front of Tipi

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