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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)

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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
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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.

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