Demasduit
Sign in to saveright|thumb|250px|Watercolour on ivory miniature Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March), by Henrietta Hamilton, 1819 (Library and Archives Canada) right|thumb|250px|The taking of Demasduit, drawn by her niece Shanawdithit thumb|right|This miniature portrait called A female Red Indian of Newfoundland and dated 1841 by some sources may have been painted by naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and is most likely a later copy of Portrait of Demasduit by Hamilton (above)
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of death
- Botwood
- Languages spoken
- Beothuk
- Image
- Demasduit.jpg
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- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- date of death
- 1820-01-08
- date of birth
- 1796-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- Beothuk people
- Commons category
- Demasduit
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right|thumb|250px|Watercolour on ivory miniature Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March), by Henrietta Hamilton, 1819 (Library and Archives Canada) right|thumb|250px|The taking of Demasduit, drawn by her niece Shanawdithit thumb|right|This miniature portrait called A female Red Indian of Newfoundland and dated 1841 by some sources may have been painted by naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and is most likely a later copy of Portrait of Demasduit by Hamilton (above)
Demasduit ( 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on Newfoundland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Demasduit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.