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Garters, pair, tightly finger woven, of greyish blue wool, with narrow border of faded red. opaque white beads interwoven. at one end, binding with olive green, silk ribbon, and edging of white beads at opposite end warp strands are braided together for 3.5 cm then wrapped with porcupine quills, and strung at ends with metal cone and red-dyed hair. Quill colours are white, dak red and black.;;

1780 c;;

(DOCUMENTATION) (from Speyer, via T. Brasser) and they also have a complete set of colour slides of the entire coll. (as does the Horniman Mus.)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.