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Nutioc ( - 1577)

Infant daughter of Ginoct, the two were taken from their home in Northern Canada and brought to England by Martin Frobisher. Nutioc died within a short time of arriving in England. Platter refers to a painting of mother and "daughter," titled "Ginoct Nutioc." See Miller, 275. Cheshire et. al. idenitfy Nutioc as a boy (30). Relevant locations: Residence at Bloody Point, York Sound
Visited Bristol, Bristol
Relationships: Nutioc was a unspecified Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 or 1539-15 Nov 1594)
Nutioc was a daughter of Ginoct (-1577)

Ginoct (-1577) was a mother of Nutioc
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony.
as Mentions or references - Thomas Platter's Travels in England, 1599: Rendered into English from the German.
as Subject of/in a document - Frobisher's Eskimos in England.
References in Documents:
Thomas Platter's travel diary (1599)

After leaving this extensive and pleasant garden, and presenting our gratuity to the gardener, the governor of the royal palace, one of the nobility, to whom we had previously sent in our letter of introduction, received us, and after he had returned our letter he presented us to his wife and daughters, who were to take us over all the inner royal apartments and cabinets, and show us all the treasures then in the place, and whatever the woman and daughters pointed out was all told us in French by an interpreter who was with us. The first room they showed us into contained the lively and lifelike portrait of the wild man and woman captured by Martin Frobisher, the English captain, on his voyage to the new world, and brought back to England alive. The man’s face was much waled, and both looked like savages, wore skins, and the woman carried a child in Indian dress in a linen cloth upon her shoulder. Above the woman were the words: "Ginoct Nutioc."