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Sarah Cheney Willoughby drawings, approximately 1885-1886
Overview of the Collection
- Artist
- Willoughby, Sarah, 1841-1913
- Title
- Sarah Cheney Willoughby drawings
- Dates
- approximately 1885-1886 (inclusive)18851886
- Quantity
- 14 drawings
- Collection Number
- PH0568
- Summary
- Drawings of Quinault Indians and Quinault Indian Reservation and village at Taholah, Washington by University of Washington instructor in art and music
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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The collection is restricted.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1841, Sarah Cheney sailed for Seattle via Panama in 1862 to become an instructor in art at the brand-new University of Washington. The school had no art students, so the versatile Cheney taught music. She soon took a teaching job in Port Townsend where, in 1865, she married Captain Charles Willoughby of the United States Coast Guard Survey. In the 1870s and 1880s, Captain Willoughby served as Indian agent at Neah Bay among the Makah, and on the Quileuete and Quinault reservations. During this time, Sarah Cheney Willoughby made the pencil and crayon sketches in the collection.
Sarah Willoughby died in Port Townsend in 1913.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Drawings of Quinault Indians and Quinault Indian Reservation and village at Taholah, Washington.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
It is not clear where the alternate titles came from.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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item | ||
1 |
Sunset near Point Elizabeth
[alternate title Quinault women gathering wood on beach
at Point Elizabeth, Washington] Crayon, colored pencil and graphite on wove paper, 1886, 5 ¼ x 6
5/8” (13.3 x 16.8 cm).
|
1886 |
2 |
Quinault woman & boy on beach at
Taholah Washington [alternate title Wreck of the
British bark off Point Elizabeth, SIR JAMSETJEE FAMILY / Quinault Woman and
Boy] See the Charles Willoughby papers, Accession No. 4972-001 for an
account of the shipwreck written by Willoughby's daughter Adeline Willoughby
McCormack.
Crayon, colored pencil and graphite on wove paper, 4 ¾ x 6 9/16”
(12.1 x 16.6 cm).
|
1886 |
3 |
Quinault woman carrying wood on
beach at Point Grenville Washington [alternate title
Woman carrying firewood. Point Grenville, three miles
south of the Quinault River] Crayon, colored pencil and graphite on wove paper.
|
1885? |
4 |
Beach at Taholah [alternate
title Quinault Reservation at Taholah
Washington] Colored pencil, crayon and graphite on wove paper, 4 5/16 x 6 5/16”
(11 x 16 cm).
|
1886 |
5 |
Quinault Village of Taholah
[alternate title Village of Taholah, with agents house at
left and old boiler from a wrecked steamship] Colored pencil, crayon and graphite on wove paper, 5 x 7” (12.7 x
17.8 cm).
|
1885? |
6 |
Quinault Chief Salmon napping Caption on drawing: "Botcher's statuary repose. Old Salmon".Old Salmon is featured in Willoughby's ca. 1885 draft manuscript
description of Quinault Reservation events and legends. See the Charles
Willoughby papers, Accession No. 4972-001.
Colored pencil and graphite on wove paper, 4 ¾ x 6 11/16” (12.1 x 17
cm).
|
1885? |
7 |
Quinault sea otter derrick, on beach
between Copalis & Point Grenville Washington [alternate title
Tower for hunting sea otters, between Copalis and Point
Grenville] Crayon, colored pencil and graphite on wove paper, 9 ¾ x 5 11/16”
(24.7 x 14.4 cm).
|
1885? |
8 |
Quinault men netting and spear
fishing at low tide, mouth of the Quinault River, Washington [alternate
title Extreme low tide at the mouth of the Quinault
River, Point Elizabeth in the distance] Crayon, colored pencil and graphite on wove paper, image: 5 11/16 x
7 5/16” (14.4 x 18.6 cm).
|
1886 |
9 |
Quinault graveyard across the
Quinault River [alternate title Indian graves
across the river from the village of Taholah] Note from accompanying material: In the large ocean-going canoe
are the remains of eight brothers and sisters out of one family. When an Indian
died before the corpse was cold a rope was put under the hulls and around the
back of the neck be which the body was drawn up and tied in as small a bundle
as possible. All belongings of the deceased were placed in and on the grave to
be used in the happy hunting grounds.
Pen and ink on wove paper, 4 5/8 x 7 1/8” (12.4 x 18.1
cm).
|
1885? |
10 |
Quinault houses and a canoe on the
Quinault River, near Taholah Washington Crayon, colored pencil and graphite on wove paper, 5 1/8 x 7 1/16”
(13 x 17.9 cm).
|
1886 |
11a-b |
High tide (top),
Beach Scene with heavy surf (bottom) [Quinault
Indian Reservation in high water, showing small wooden houses with wooden
fences with flooded yards] 2 drawings: graphite on wove paper; and crayon, colored pencil and
graphite on wove paper; mounted together on a single sheet, 10 1/16 x 7 15/16”
(25.5 x 20.2 cm).
|
1885? |
12 |
Homes and fields along the river,
Quinault Indian Reservation [alternate title Quinault Indian Reservation] Graphite on wove paper.
|
1885? |
13 | Houses with orchards, Port Gamble, Washington | 1885? |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Colored pencil drawing--Specimens
- Indian Reservations--Washington (State)--Quinault Reservation
- Pen drawing--Specimens
- Pencil drawing--Specimens
- Quinault Indians--Washington (State)--Quinault Reservation--Portraits
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Geographical Names
- Grenville, Point (Wash.)
- Quinault Reservation (Wash.)
- Taholah (Wash.)