Signed L.R Laffitte Watercolor Painting of Yankton Sioux Native American
Signed L.R Laffitte Watercolor of Yankton Sioux on silk mounted on laid paper, Signed at the bottom in pencil. According to local legend, when Meriwether Lewis learned that a male child had been born near the expedition's encampment in what is today southeastern South Dakota, he sent for the child and wrapped the new born baby boy in an American flag during the council at Calumet Bluff in late August 1804. Lewis declared the baby an American. This boy grew up to become a headman (chief) of the Ihanktonwan Dakota (Yankton Sioux), known as Struck By-the-Ree. However, the journals of the expedition make no mention of this incident.
Image 26 x 15.7 in. (66 x 39.9 cm.), Overall: 31 1/2 x 20.8 in. (80 x 52.8 cm.)
Signed L.R Laffitte Watercolor of Yankton Sioux on silk mounted on laid paper, Signed at the bottom in pencil. According to local legend, when Meriwether Lewis learned that a male child had been born near the expedition's encampment in what is today southeastern South Dakota, he sent for the child and wrapped the new born baby boy in an American flag during the council at Calumet Bluff in late August 1804. Lewis declared the baby an American. This boy grew up to become a headman (chief) of the Ihanktonwan Dakota (Yankton Sioux), known as Struck By-the-Ree. However, the journals of the expedition make no mention of this incident.
Image 26 x 15.7 in. (66 x 39.9 cm.), Overall: 31 1/2 x 20.8 in. (80 x 52.8 cm.)
Signed L.R Laffitte Watercolor of Yankton Sioux on silk mounted on laid paper, Signed at the bottom in pencil. According to local legend, when Meriwether Lewis learned that a male child had been born near the expedition's encampment in what is today southeastern South Dakota, he sent for the child and wrapped the new born baby boy in an American flag during the council at Calumet Bluff in late August 1804. Lewis declared the baby an American. This boy grew up to become a headman (chief) of the Ihanktonwan Dakota (Yankton Sioux), known as Struck By-the-Ree. However, the journals of the expedition make no mention of this incident.
Image 26 x 15.7 in. (66 x 39.9 cm.), Overall: 31 1/2 x 20.8 in. (80 x 52.8 cm.)
