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Strip of band weaving, very small blue and white beads, strung on black hair between six weft strands of red wool yarn. whole originally stained red. edging of white beads at end, warp strands are fingerwoven together into long narrow band, with small white beads, again a strung on black hair, interwoven in straight lines. Two pendant tassels of wool yarn solidly wrapped with alternated white moosehair and black horse hair with small metal cone and bunch of red-dyed hair at end.;;

1780 c;;

(DOCUMENTATION) (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.). (Information from Judy Hall, Curator of Eastern Woodlands Ethnology, CMC) "An independent curator from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Scott Stephenson, on a visit to CMC February 12, 2003, identified this object as a hair garter. Apparently, this is what it is called in the literature. We could use hair ornament as an alternate name. The fingerwoven strap would be wound around the hair and the beaded strip would hang vertically above/over the ear".