'Portrait of Akaitcho, and his son' lawyer and carrying a Gladstone bag

and carrying a Gladstone bag

February 4

Botanical studies of the upper part of a stalk of Indian hemp

complete with plump

'Portrait of Akaitcho, and his son' lawyer and carrying a Gladstone bagIn the summer of 1820, the party journeyed from Fort Chipewyan to the Great Slave Lake, where they came under the protection of Akaitcho (Big foot), the local Yellowknife chief. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London, 1823).