Cooshaipunjiz (James Button Sulivan) (James FitzRoy Button)
b. c. 1871
Fuegian. Grandson of Orundellico (Jemmy Button). Orphaned at the age of 6. Lived at the orphanage established by the South American Mission Society at Ushuaia in the Beagle Channel, Patagonia. Given (in error) the name James Button Sulivan when support was provided for him by Bartholomew James Sulivan and others; later renamed James FitzRoy Button.
Sources
Correspondence vol. 27, letter from B. J. Sulivan, 13 October 1879
Hazlewood 2000, p. 343
South American Missionary Magazine, 1 October 1879, p. 223
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hazlewood, Nick. 2000. Savage. The life and times of Jemmy Button. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
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