Editing Demasduit (section)

{{short description|Beothuk woman}}
[[Image:Demasduit.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Watercolour on ivory miniature ''Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March)'', by [[Henrietta Hamilton]], 1819 (Library and Archives Canada)<ref>Charlotte Gray 'The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder' Random House, 2004</ref>]]
[[File:The taking of Demasduit.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The taking of Demasduit, drawn by her niece [[Shanawdithit]]]]
[[File:Shanawdithit portrait.jpg|thumb|right|This miniature portrait called ''A female Red Indian of Newfoundland'' and dated 1841 by some sources may have been painted by naturalist [[Philip Henry Gosse]]<ref>Mullen, Gary R., "[http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1659 Philip Henry Gosse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914174434/http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1659 |date=2011-09-14 }}," ''Encyclopedia of Alabama'', 26 August 2008, retrieved 9 September 2011</ref> and is most likely a later copy of ''Portrait of Demasduit'' by Hamilton (above)]]

'''Demasduit''' ({{circa}} 1796 – January 8, 1820<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/demasduwit_5E.html | title=DEMASDUWIT | author=G. M. Story | publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval | accessdate=October 2, 2013 | archive-date=October 4, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004233510/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/demasduwit_5E.html | url-status=live }}</ref>) was a [[Beothuk]] woman, one of the last of her people on [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].