Throughout A Paintbrush In My Hand Daphne Odjig's story has been told by herself, as related through R. M. Vanderburgh and M. E. Southcoutt. As a product of an oral tradition that was still flourishing during her childhood in the village of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay, Daphne became a superb storyteller, in the tradition of her elders. It is this inheritance that she has built on as she told her stories...