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Teshumai Tewindrow
Taffy's fierce Neolithic mother, who reads a picture-letter as a murder confession and rallies the tribe against an innocent Stranger-man.
supporting
Also known as Teshumai
First appearance: How the First Letter Was Written
As a supporting figure in Just So Stories, Teshumai Tewindrow is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Teshumai misinterprets the picture letter as an attack on her husband and rallies the tribe.
She is the mistress of the Neolithic Cave, a woman of swift judgment and quicker temper, who mistakes Taffy's drawn message for evidence that Tegumai has been speared. Her certainty is comic and terrifying: she screams, summons the Neolithic ladies, and has the bewildered Stranger-man sat upon, muddied, and nearly beheaded before the truth arrives. Her misreading of the new art of writing makes her the story's engine of farce and shows how easily a fresh invention can be misunderstood.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Misunderstood letter
- Frame story family
- Domesticated animals and baby
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- Breaking point
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- Closing
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See Teshumai Tewindrow in How the First Letter Was Written