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Description
Caption: Sainte-Marie among the Hurons An interpretor dressed as a Donnes uses a shaving bench, with a couple of fellow Donnes's looking on. A Donnes was a layworker who volunteered for the mission. Shaving benches were used to care wood, like a canoe pad
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