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Robert Griffing (b. 1940) Oil on Canvas

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Robert Griffing (b. 1940) Oil on Canvas
Robert Griffing (b. 1940), Through the Straits of Mackinac (2010), oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches, signed and dated lower left.

According to Robert Griffing, “Two birch bark canoes suddenly appear out of the early morning mist over the Straits of Mackinac. Paddled by Odawa warriors, they skim across the waters, laden with beaver pelts and other valuable furs destined to be traded for European-made goods at Fort Michilimackinac. The Straits, where lakes Huron and Michigan meet in the five mile gap separating Michigan’s lower and upper peninsulas, was known to the natives as Michilimackinac, or “Land of the Great Turtle.” During the French, British, and later the American occupation periods, it was truly the Crossroads of the Great Lakes, where except for one brief incident during the Pontiac Uprising, Indians and whites met in peaceful commerce that benefited both cultures.”