Lot, Chief of the Spokanes

Olin Levi Warner

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Lot, Chief of the Spokanes" was one of seven portraits of Native Americans that Olin Warner modeled while in Oregon in 1891. According to Warner's friend, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Lot, a chief of the Spokane, was thought to be in his late fifties when this portrait was modeled.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art