Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 28, 1809
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 44
Additional Source Text:
"Who attacked Captn. Lewis and were killed by himself and party on the 27th of July 1806. near the Rocky Mountain."
This artifact appears on a long list of "Articles collected by Meriwether Lewis Esqr. and William Clark Esq. in their voyage and Journey of Discovery, up the Missouri to its source and to the Pacific Ocean, presented at different periods, through the president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson."
Notes:
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) undertook their western Expedition in 1804-1806.
Lewis engaged in a firefight with a group of Blackfeet on 26 July 1806 and kept the amulets as war souvenirs. See Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (NewYork, 1996), pp. 381-382.
