82: EUGENE DAUB (BORN 1942) SACAGAWEA BRONZE SCULPTURE

Eugene Daub (Missouri, 20th Century)
Sacagawea (Late 20th Century)
The bronze sculpture on conforming wood base is signed E L Daub verso and numbered 20 of 30.


This seventy pound model is a maquette of the Shoshone guide Sacajawea as she's portrayed in the 18 feet high Corps of Discovery monument commissioned for West Terrace Park in Kansas City Missouri to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark's expedition.

The Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea was pregnant with her first child when Lewis and Clark reached the Mandan villages in present day North Dakota, early in the winter of 1804. After a difficult delivery where, according to Meriwether Lewis' journal entries, she was given a medicine of crushed rattlesnake rattles to help speed delivery, Sacajawea gave birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. Just two months later, she left Fort Mandan with her newborn baby and French Canadian husband to serve as a guide and interpreter for the Corps of Discovery expedition. Over the next nearly two-and-one-half years she would travel nearly 8000 miles, guiding Lewis and Clark through America's newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. She proved to be the expedition's most important guide and interpreter, particularly during the crossing of the Rocky Mountains, and interactions with the Shoshone people, her original tribe.
Measures 27 x 18 x 11 inches.
Very good to fine condition, free from wear, damage, rub or detraction of any type to any degree.
$2,000 - $3,000