Sophie Marigeau was half Shuswap Native American and half French. She is a thing of legend, having eight husbands, being a renown business woman and trader, and founder of one of the first trading posts on the Tobacco Plains north of Eureka Montana.
This painting was commissioned for Tim Mikita's private gallery and collection from the Kootenai region. It is a wet-on-wet water color on handmade paper from Porridge Papers Lincoln, Nebraska. It measures 12.5 in by 25 in. in length. The painting was inspired by one of the few photos known of Sophie's camp. The photo is displayed in the book The Story Of The Tobacco Plains by Olga Weydemeyer.
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