Frederick Henry Townsend

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Frederick Henry Townsend
1868-1920
He's talking with the evil spirits, Day Bird muttered
ca. 1901
Pen and black ink over graphite and touched with white, on paper.
13 3/16 x 10 inches (335 x 255 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2118
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Drawing for an illustration for a short story by W.A. Fraser, entitled "The little sister at Saint's Lake", published in Pearson's magazine, v. 12, 1901, p. 720-727.

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Signed in pen and ink at lower right, "F.H.T. 1901"; in pencil at foot: He's talking with the evil spirits, Day Bird muttered.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Drawing shows an Indigenous man holding a rifle and looking through a window into a room where a young white man is kneeling in the foreground in an attitude of prayer.

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