Description
Senauki, an elite Yamacraw woman from what is now known as Savannah, Georgia, travelled to London in 1734 with a delegation that included seven other Yamacraw dignitaries. While she was most likely the most important member of the delegation, given the status of women in her culture, her husband Tomochichi and nephew Toonahawi garnered most of the public attention during their time in the city. One exception to this came during a visit to the Tower, however, when it was noted that, unlike the British women present, Senauki refused to look under the codpiece of Henry VIII’s armor. Indeed, while Indigenous women only rarely traveled to Britain in this early period, when they did, they were often compared positively to their English counterparts, who were routinely characterized by British men as bawdy, rowdy, and uppity. Unlike the two earlier delegations, who stayed in London, Oglethorpe brought the Creek to his estate in Surrey after the death of Hinguithi from smallpox. While there Oglethorpe caused a stir by taking the party to Diné at the Old White Hart Inn (originally The Antelope) in Godalming, our map location here.
Bibliographic sources
Thrush, Indigenous London, 82-91. Image by William Verelst – http://www.pantherslodge.com/indians.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4753036