| Summary: | Sketch I. Red Indian Lake, Beothuck village; Sketch II. Capture of Mary March on R.I. Lake, 1819; Sketch III. captain Buchan conveying Mary March's corpse up Exploits; Sketch. IV. Last resting place of Beothucks on Badger River; Sketch V. Murder of Indian woman on Exploits; Sketch VI, VII. Summer and Winter mamateeks. Represents different kinds of food, etc.; Sketch VIII. A variety of subjects, cups, spears, etc.; Sketch IX, X. House in St. John's in which Nancy lived. Mythological emblems. Negatives of Shanawdithit's drawings in James P. Howley's The Beothucks or Red Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland. Cambridge: University Press, 1915. The negatives were prepared for the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Title from the section of the same name in Howley's book.
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