BLACK MOCCASIN George Catlin Engraving from Catlin's Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians (1841). Black Moccasin was a village leader in the Awatixa (Hidatsa) community called "Metaharta," which Lewis and Clark sometimes referred to as the "first Minnetaree village." Today this site is often called "Sacagawea village" because it was there that the Shoshone woman lived with her husband, trader Toussaint Charbonneau. When artist George Catlin visited the Mandan and Hidatsa villages in the summer of 1832, Black Moccasin was one of the few remaining people who had known Lewis and Clark nearly 30 years earlier. A calumet similar to the one depicted here was collected by Lewis and Clark

 

	h o m e i n t r o d u c t i o n o b j e c t s m a p r e s o u r c e s c r e d i t s The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: Native American Objects and the American Quest for Commerce and Science Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Copyright ©President and Fellows of Harvard College