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Author: Emily Carr

D’Sonoqua

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

I was sketching in a remote Indian village when I first saw her. The village was one of those that the Indians use only for a few months in each year; the rest of the time it stands empty and desolate. I went there in one of its empty…

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Sophie

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

Sophie knocked gently on my Vancouver studio door. “Baskets. I got baskets.” They were beautiful, made by her own people, West Coast Indian baskets. She had big ones in a cloth tied at the four corners and little ones in a flour-sack. She had a baby slung on her…

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Cumshew

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

Tanoo, Skedans and Cumshewa lie fairly close to each other on the map, yet each is quite unlike the others when you come to it. All have the West Coast wetness but Cumshewa seems always to drip, always to be blurred with mist, its foliage always to hang wet-heavy.

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