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      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

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      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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      The paper used in this publication is acid-free and 90 percent recycled from at least 50 percent post-consumer and at least 50 percent pre-consumer waste. It meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

      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.