Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste
By Glenna Goodacre
2001
Location: South side of the building / South entrance (open in summer)
Glenna Goodacre’s sculpture depicts Sacagawea with the infant Jean Baptiste on her back. Sacagawea’s husband, trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, was enlisted as Lewis and Clark’s interpreter along the journey, chosen in part because his wife spoke Shoshone.
Shown gripping her buffalo robe to her, Sacagawea looks out ahead onto the western front, her gaze tilted upwards as if surveying the landscape left to traverse.
Glenna Goodacre (b. 1939). Sacagawea and Jean Baptiste, 2001. Bronze, H 83.75 x W 42 inches. L.359.2011.2
