A Young Woman of the Flat Head Tribe

Description One of the social highlights of the rendezvous occured when this young woman ("quite a belle," Miller thought) ran off with a "stalwart Canadian trapper." Not knowing that the trapper had already begun paying court to the girl, one of Miller's friends, a young man from St. Louis named Phillipson, decided that she would be his. His presents and attentions were "kindly received," Miller noted, encouraging the young man. Phillipson felt embarrassed before the whole camp when the "simple Indian girl," realizing that her future was with the trapper, stole off quietly. Phillipson initially was "crest-fallen and melancholy," Miller recorded, but later regained his serenity.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/15/1964	Treatment	re-housed

Exhibitions

• Alfred Jacob Miller: An Artist on the Oregon Trail. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody. 1981-1982.
• Alfred Jacob Miller: Watercolors and Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.
• 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.
• Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. 2008-2009.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1858-1860, by commission; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1858-1860