Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The caption reads:
"Aunt Mary Ann as she was affectionately known to many people, was an excellent type of Shinnecock Indian. Her forebears were Peter John Cuffee and Reverend Paul Cuffee. For many years she was employed as a cook at the Rogers Boarding House in Sagaponack and her recipes and dishes were quite famous. Pictured beside her in a wooden mortar and pestle, which were once a part of every Shinnecock kitchen. Though mortars are no longer used in Shinnecock homes they are very much in use by Nanticokes of Delaware and by the Rappahannock, Pamunkey, Mattanony, and Chickahiminy Tribes of Virginia.
Mary Ann Cuffee died on February 16, 1923 at the age of 95."
