Miniature of Mary March (Desmasduit)

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This miniature is an extraordinary value, the only portrait painted with once living on the islands of Newfoundland Indians Biotuk

Desmasvidt (1796-1820), an English name Mary March, was captured when the British colonialists attacked her village. Marie could not get away with all due to a small child. Husband, who tried to help her, was shot dead at her feet. The child died several days later

The portrait was the governor's wife Lady Henrietta Martha Hamilton.
Learning the history of the abduction of a young woman, the governor ordered to return to the place of Mary, but the two expeditions to the island did not yield any results, none of the settlement was found. And in the second expedition Marie died of tuberculosis

Known fact that during the entire time living away from their seats, received food Marie divided into 16 parts, the number of members of her former group

Tribe Biotukov completely disappeared in 1829

Size miniature 6.5 cm x 8.5 cm, made watercolor on ivory,
There were many copies made from this portrait of himself as the original disappeared in 1976 and emerged at an auction in New York, where he was bought by the Canadian National Archives for $ 9 500