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DURING MY TIME
Florence Edenshaw Davidson
A HAIDA WOMAN
Florence Davidson, 1980
DURING MY TIME
Florence Edenshaw Davidson
A HAIDA WOMAN
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Margaret B. Blackman
University of Washington Press
Seattle and London
Douglas & McIntyre
Vancouver/Toronto
This book was published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright © 1982 by the University of Washington Press
First paperback edition, 1985
Fourth printing, 1990
Revised edition copyright © 1992 by the
University of Washington Press
Printed in the United States of America
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Cover photograph by Ulli Steltzer.
Frontispiece photograph of Florence Davidson by Margaret Blackman.
For her children, their spouses,and all who know her as “Nani”
Chapters 4 through 9 constitute Florence Davidson’s first-person account of her long and rich life. The ornament that introduces her narrative is a dogfish shark by her grandson Robert Davidson.
CONTENTS
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
3. Florence Edenshaw Davidson: A Biographical Sketch
4. Those Before Me (1862–1896)
5. Before I Could Walk (1896–1897)
6. I Am Yet a Girl (1897–1909)
7. I Become a Woman and Marry (1909–1911)
8. I Become a Mother and Have Lots of Children (1912–1938)
9. I Quit Having Babies: My Later Years (1939–1979)
Epilogue 1992: “One More Time”
ILLUSTRATIONS
Map of Queen Charlotte Islands