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Breechcloth, made from blue blanket cloth, covered in middle portion with natural canvas, edged with silk ribbons at one end, solidily applique faded red worsted tape in transverse strips. Edging of opaque white beads sewn with cotton thread.;;

1780 C;;

(from Speyer, via T. Brasser) formerly in the collection of Sir John Caldwell. Caldwell was 5th Baronet, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He served from 1774-1780 during the American Revolution as an officer in the 8th Regiment on Foot. He was stationed briefly at Niagara, then sent to Fort Detroit. Was made a chief of the Ojibwa and given the name Appato, The Runner. Took part in a council at the Shawnee village of Wakeetomike on Jan. 17, 1780; and supposedly councilled with Munsee, Delaware, Iroquois, Shawnee, Huron, Illini. A few pieces from his collection are in the Liverpool Mus. and they also have a complete set of color slides of the coll. (as does the Horniman Mus.)