Sabina, a Cayuse

Sabina, a Cayuse

Olin Levi Warner

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Warner modeled "Sabina, a Cayuse" in 1891 while in Oregon. While the six other Native American portraits that Warner executed at that time were of male chiefs, this medallion shows a fourteen-year-old girl. Although the inscription on the relief records that Sabina was a Cayuse, according to Warner's friend Charles Erskine Scott Wood, she was actually the daughter of Kash-Kash, chief of the Walla Walla.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.