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ear pendants, 5 silver discs with openwork designs;;

1775/01/01, 1785/12/31;1780 circa;

(Information from Arthur Speyer to Ted J. Brasser, Plains Ethnologist, National Museum of Man) formerly in the collection of Sir John Caldwell. Caldwell was 5th Baronet, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Caldwell served between 1774 and 1780 during the American Revolution as an officer in the 8th Regiment on Foot. He was stationed briefly at Niagara, then sent to Ft. Detroit. Was made a chief of the Ojibwa and given the name Apatto The Runner. Took part in a council at the Shawnee village of Wakeetomike on Jan. 17, 1780, and supposedly counciled 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 entire collection (as does the Horniman Mus.).

1. TREASURES, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Old Bridge Press, National Museums of Canada, 1988 2. INDIAN CEREMONIAL AND TRADE SILVER, National Museums of Canada, 1980, 168 p.