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Garter: woven porcupine quills on skin thong base; edged at top and bottom with green glass beads and at either end with double row of blue beads; quill-weaving is backed with birchbark which is covered at back and ends of garter with red stroud; ends are bound with black and white bird quills, and there are tie strings of tanned skin, one of which has five strand fringe sewn to end, each strand beaded in black, white, and yellow, with bunch of red hair and quill-wrapping at end; fringe along lower edge of garter, of fine, tanned skin strands, each strand quill-wrapped, and knotted around bunch of red hair at end; thong ends are stained red; sewing with sinew and cotton thread;;

1780/12/31 C;;

(Information from Arthur Speyer, via Ted J. Brasser, Plains Ethnologist, NMM) formerly in the Caldwell Collection, Caldwell served during the American Revolution as an officer in the 8th Regiment of Foot; he spent a winter at Ft. Detroit, was made a chief of the Ojibwa and given the name "Apatto" The Hunter; 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 Musuem and they also have a complete set of colour slides of the entire collection as does the Horniman Museum)

Treasures / Tresors. Canadian Museum of Civilization. Canada: NMC and Old Bridge Press. p 110