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Pouch, made from tanned, black dyed skin. Flap-type closure. Porcupine quill decoration: one-quill edging; and zig-zag band and simple line techniques on face. Flap and bottom edges are trimmed with opaque white beads, and with tassels of metal cone, red-dyed hair, and cylindrical white and blue glass beads. Carrying strap consists of 16 skin thongs, bound together in pairs with quills; at top of strap and at either end where joined to bag, thongs are interwoven in netted technique. Thong ends terminate in tassels, as above. Quill colours are orange, yellow, black and white (on pouch) and black, red and white (on carrying strap). Sewing and quillwork are with sinew.;;

1780 C;;

(from Arthur Speyer, via Ted Brasser, Plains Ethnologist, National Museum of Man, Ottawa) 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); TREASURES, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Old Bridge Press, National Museums of Canada, 1988; Bo'jou Neejee exhibit catalogue #67.

duplicate record, replaced with record 3757, this record rendered inactive by Lisa Truong and Heidi Bohaker 11 April 2012