Coming of the White Man

Coming of the White Man is a bronze sculpture by American artist Hermon Atkins MacNeil, installed in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon in the United States.

It depicts two Native American men, including Chief Multnomah, looking towards the Columbia River upon the arrival of Lewis and Clark.

Coming of the White Man is a bronze sculpture designed by Hermon Atkins MacNeil (1866–1947), an American artist most known for depicting indigenous peoples of the Americas and Western pioneers.

[1] It depicts Chief Multnomah and another Native American man looking towards the Columbia River upon the arrival of Lewis and Clark.

[3] A plaster cast of the sculpture, donated by MacNeil, resides in the Poppenhusen Institute in College Point, Queens, New York.

The sculpture in 1922