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Headdress. Base of two double rawhide strips, of equal depth, stitched together at either end. To exterior of this are secured three (on one side two) narrow wooden strips solidly wrapped with broad flattened quills, with smaller quills in contrasting colours inerwoven at right angles in diamond pattern. At either seam is attached an upright cylinder of wood, also quill wrapped. Loop of cylindrical black glass beads at one end. Bunches of split and unsplit feathers, some dyed red, are attached at one end, in upright fashion, between layers of rawhide. Quill colours are red, orange, black and white. Sewing is with cotton thread.;;

1780 c;;

(Information 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 entire coll. (as does the Horniman Mus.)