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Moccasins, pair. Made from tanned, smoked skin. One-piece construction, with vertical seam at heel and gathered seam down centre front. Narrow bands of woven quillwork edged with white glass beads, on either ankle flap and covering front seam. Black, white, red and yellow quills are used, on cotton string. Fringe of orange/red hair and metal cones on skin thongs attached at ankle flaps. Faded orange silk ribbon binding around ankle flaps and covering heel seam. Cotton string ties.;;

1780 C;;

(from Speyer, via Ted Brasser, Plains Ethnologist, National Museum of Man) 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.).

Benndorf and Speyer (1968)