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Nuu-chah-nulth -- pn4732

Photograph No: pn4732

Nation: Nuu-chah-nulth

Location: Barkley Sound

Date: 1862

Photographer: C. Gentile

Collection:

Additional Info: "an Indian girl - from an original and unpublished photo taken in 1862 for Mrs. Caroline Smyth, formerly Mrs. Arthur Fellows, and daughter of the Postal Reformer Sir Rowland Hill". "Tu-te-ma (Lucy)(lightening) and her mother in a canoe, Barkley Sound, Shee-shadt tribe".

"But my chief friend from the village was Lucy, a girl like her parents, had come under the influence of Bishop Demers...and his catholic missionaries. No walrus tooth in chin, no hideous malformation of cranium, no painted face, had Lucy; and she was as good a girl and sweet-tempered, capable, industrious as any maid could be. She used to paddle her small canoe across from the village, draw it up, and leave it on the pebbly shore, appearing at our door punctuality personified." From An Octogenarian's Reminiscences. Eleanor Caroline Fellows, privately published in London, 1916, p. 95.

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