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Might be Comekela and not Callicum

Just a note here for now: According to John Price in "Relocating Yuquot: The Indigenous Pacific and Transpacific Migrations", BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019-20, the person identified as "Callicum" in this engraving might actually be Comekela, Maquinna's younger brother. Not a lot is known about Comekela, but rather amazingly he went to China with James Hanna in 1786-87 and returned with John Meares in 1788. This engraving was made by the artist Thomas Stothard from a sketch done by someone on the *Iphigenia*. Stothard identified the person as Callicum, but the sketch did not, and there's evidence that it might be Comekela (like the discarded clothes at their feet). I'm hoping to make a page on English WP for Comekela soon and will talk about this. An interesting twist to this famous illustration. More info about this, with citations to yet more info and arguments for it being Comekela, at John Price's article "Relocating Yuquot: The Indigenous Pacific and Transpacific Migrations", which can be read, for now anyway, here: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/191643/189025/220955 Pfly (留言) 05:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)