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Shinnecock, People of the Stony Shore Photo Project attempts to reinforce our connection to the land and aims to present ourselves in a web-based portraiture platform.

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Wickham Cuffee, Fanny Bunn, Ellen ca 1914

Collection: Patchogue – Medford Library Rare Eastern Indian Photo Series, [Set 1]

Date: 1913

Type of Material: Photograph

Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in height and 8 inches in width. https://digitalpml.pmlib.org/search.php?search=item&item=368

Language: English

Coverage/Location: Unknown

Creator: Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]

Copyright: No Known Copyright Restriction

Description:

The caption reads: “An excellent photo of three Shinnecocks taken shortly before the year of 1914. Wickham Cuffee is seated on the left and the woman on the right is Fanny Bunn who was the mother of Ada Bunn who appears in Photo 40.
Wickham’s wife Ellen is standing in the center. She has an old walking stick in her hand probably fashioned by her husband.”

 

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