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| Keywords: Alfred Jacob Miller - Hunting Buffalo - Walters 371940190.jpg It is true that various Plains Indians would occasionally chase buffalo over a small cliff but Miller probably never saw this scene and therefore exaggerated it a bit The Indians when they found a suitable bluff would conceal themselves behind the rocks with hides When the herd would start to move towards the bluff the Indians would jump up from behind their rocks shouting and waving the hides keeping the buffalo moving toward the cliff In later versions of this picture Miller exaggerated the cliff even more Had the Indians driven buffalo over such precipices the meat would have been too badly smashed to eat and the bones would have been broken between 1858 1860 watercolor paper cm 21 1 36 accession number 37 1940 190 16002 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 Alfred Jacob Miller Maryland and the West The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Frostburg State University Frostburg; Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington Rockville; Washington College Chestertown 1988 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 Bisons in art Buffalo jumps Horses of Native Americans in art Hunting by horse in paintings Paintings of Native Americans by Alfred Jacob Miller Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
