Pacific University Historic Photographs

Tsin-is-tum (Jennie Michel), Clatsop woman - duplicate suppressed

A photograph of Tsin-is-tum, also known as Jennie Michel, who was commonly called the "Last of the Clatsops." This image which was probably taken around 1900 at her home near Seaside, Oregon. She is holding a reed mat (or possibly a piece of thatch), next to bundle of reed canes and a lean-to thatched with more reeds. Tsin-is-tum lived from circa 1814-1905. Around 1900, she became well known as a source of Oregon coast Native knowledge as well as for the memories, handed down from her parents, of the visit of Lewis and Clark to Oregon in 1805-6. Photographs of Tsin-is-tum were sold as souvenirs to tourists for many years. They often included erroneous captions, such as those on this example, which states she was a 102-year-old woman named Pricess Jennie Marshall, the Last of the Clatsops. The designation as "the Last" of her tribe was based on 19th century white notions about what it meant to be a member of a tribe: only "full-blooded" tribal members were counted, even though intermarriage between tribes had always existed on the Oregon coast. There are, in fact, still Clatsop peoples alive today.

[Front] Saari Astoria, ORE; Marshall age 102; [Back] Princess Jennie Marshall The Last of the Clatsops;

circa 1900

Native Americans

Indians of North America

Clatsops--Photographs

Michel, Jennie, approximately 1815-1905

Tsin-in-tum, approximately 1815-1905

Seaside, Oregon

gelatin silver prints

English

PUApic_012692

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Saari (publisher)

Still Image