Moses, Chief of the Okinokans

Olin Levi Warner American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

"Moses, Chief of the Okinokans" was one of seven portraits of Native Americans that Warner modeled in 1891 while in Oregon. In 1893, Warner's friend Charles Erskine Scott Wood stated that Moses was chief of the Ilnamehin or Okinakan tribe, a local branch of the Nez Percé nation. In fact, the Okanagons belonged to the inland division of the Salishan linguistic stock in the Pacific Northwest. Because of a striking resemblance, Moses was often nicknamed "Henry Ward Beecher."

Moses, Chief of the Okinokans, Olin Levi Warner (American, West Suffield, Connecticut 1844–1896 New York), Bronze, American

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