...continued
It is hard to tell whether the two rooms in the attic where connected at one point making it easy for Emily to move from one the room to the other. It is the room above the Doll's House suite that has the eagles and this is the room that Emily would sleep in, safe under them. Today, the only way to get to the room above the Studio suite is to crawl between the ceiling and the roof getting covered in coal dust and cobwebs for your troubles.
The original entrance into the attic was from the the Studio. This entrance and its original door are still there, but when the ceiling was lowered, the entrance was covered up and the door was removed from its hinges and left on the floor.
There is a bed-like ledge built into this attic room, but whether or not it was ever used as a bed is another thing entirely. Perhaps it was but it seems more likely that Emily Carr only slept under the eagles in the other attic room.
And finally, wedged with nails by the window sits a small mirror. Could Emily have used this mirror to tidy her hair in the morning when she slept in the attic?
