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Sash, finger woven, using threads which were made by twisting together ravellings from commercial wool cloth. Non-aniline dyes have been used: main colour is deep ochre red, with two transverse bands in yellow - the latter are produced by either discharge or resist dye technique. White pony beads of irregular size strung in blue cotton have been worked in with yarn, producing diamond shaped patterns. Edges trimmed with black wool. At either end of weaving, line of blue cotton is twined across width. Fringes are 2 strands twisted.;;

1780 C;;

(DOCUMENTATION) (from Speyer, via T. Brasser) and they also have a complete set of color slides of the entire coll. (as does the Horniman Mus.)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.