Sarah Cheney Willoughby drawings, approximately 1885-1886
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- Overview of the Collection
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Biographical Note
- Other Descriptive Information
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Sunset near Point Elizabeth [alternate title Quinault women gathering wood on beach at Point Elizabeth, Washington], 1886
- 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], 1886
- Quinault woman carrying wood on beach at Point Grenville Washington [alternate title Woman carrying firewood. Point Grenville, three miles south of the Quinault River], 1885?
- Beach at Taholah [alternate title Quinault Reservation at Taholah Washington], 1886
- Quinault Village of Taholah [alternate title Village of Taholah, with agents house at left and old boiler from a wrecked steamship], 1885?
- Quinault Chief Salmon napping, 1885?
- Quinault sea otter derrick, on beach between Copalis & Point Grenville Washington [alternate title Tower for hunting sea otters, between Copalis and Point Grenville], 1885?
- 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], 1886
- Quinault graveyard across the Quinault River [alternate title Indian graves across the river from the village of Taholah], 1885?
- Quinault houses and a canoe on the Quinault River, near Taholah Washington, 1886
- 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], 1885?
- Homes and fields along the river, Quinault Indian Reservation [alternate title Quinault Indian Reservation], 1885?
- Houses with orchards, Port Gamble, Washington, 1885?
- Names and Subjects
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
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The collection is restricted.
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
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 Description
Drawings of Quinault Indians and Quinault Indian Reservation and village at Taholah, Washington.
Other Descriptive Information
It is not clear where the alternate titles came from.
Use of the Collection
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Restrictions on Use
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Administrative Information
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Description: 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).
Dates: 1886Container: Item 1 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1886Container: Item 2 -
Description: 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.
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 3 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1886Container: Item 4 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 5 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 6 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 7 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1886Container: Item 8 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 9 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1886Container: Item 10 -
Description: 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).
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 11a-b -
Description: Homes and fields along the river, Quinault Indian Reservation [alternate title Quinault Indian Reservation]
Graphite on wove paper.
Dates: 1885?Container: Item 12 -
Description: Houses with orchards, Port Gamble, WashingtonDates: 1885?Container: Item 13
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.)
