This man and "his marshal" are on hand when Mohataha and her people leave Yoknapatawpha for the "Indian Territory" in the "West" - presumably to make the Chickasaws' 'removal' official, though the novel does not specifically mention the Removal (170).
Owned by Mohataha, the matriarch of the Chickasaws, this "Negro slave girl" holds "a French parasol" over her master when Mohataha comes to town in a wagon (169).
This icon represents the "successive overlapping generations" of "men and women and children" who live in Jefferson over "twelve generations" (159), between the time it was a settlement and the present of the novel (i.e. c1950). One passage specifically divides the town's population along racial lines: the advent of "screens in windows" means that "people (white people) could actually sleep in summer night air" (190).
This is the "white man" whom the Negro widower kills "in a dice game" (156). (In "Pantaloon in Black," 1940, where Faulkner earlier told this story, the white man's name is Birdsong.)
