PAUL, MARY CHRISTIANNE (Christina, Christy Ann) (Morris), Micmac artist and artist’s model; b. c. 1804 in Stewiacke, Colchester County, N.S., or Ship Harbour, Halifax County, N.S., daughter of Hobblewest Paul; d. 1886 in Halifax, N.S.

As a young girl, Mary Christianne Paul married Tom Morris, a Micmac of McNab Island, Halifax; he was considerably older than she, and an invalid for most of their married life. They had no children, but did adopt an orphaned niece, Charlotte, and a boy, Joe. Mrs Morris did exquisite work in the traditional Micmac crafts, supporting her family by the sale of quillwork and basketry. Her needlework, quillwork, splint basketry, and a full-sized canoe and paddles all won first prizes at various provincial exhibitions and she once sold two beaded costumes to Indian Commissioner William Chearnley for the impressive sum of $300. In 1854 she was living in Dartmouth, N.S., and a year later had moved across the harbour to the Northwest Arm, Halifax. There, “by her own industry,” she built and furnished a green frame house and kept a few farm animals. When her niece married in 1857, Mrs Morris served wine and cake to a large crowd, and provided flute and violin music. Accounts of this ceremony describe her as “a lady well known and respected in this community,” as indeed she was. Samuel and William Caldwell, mayors of Halifax, and Chearnley, the Indian agent, were her personal friends. [source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography.]
Quin-cha-ke-cha: 
1855 - c. 1955. Ute Chief. [sources: National Portrait Gallery of America, Harvard University.]