Smoked and tanned deer skin, porcupine quills (white, red, green and brown/black) moosehair, nettle fibre, beads, metal cones, silk ribbon, Probably vegetable fiber twine rather than sinew for the quill and bead borders.

face is decorated with porcupine quillwork in three techniques: edging, simple line stitch, and zig zag band; back top edge is bound with silk ribbon, sewn with sinew; carrying strap is of Indian hemp in twined weave, decorated with moosehair false embroidery in orange, blue, yellow and white; at strap ends, strands are quill wrapped (white with blocks of red)

Three thunderbirds; LD: Thunderbirds facing left, Anishinaabe face the other way

Pouch made from tanned, black-dyed skin; rectangular shape, with scalloped-edged cuff at front top; opaque white glass beads are incorporated in edging, metal cone and red hair tassels are attached along bottom of pouch, and at base of cuff; design up on side of strap doesn't match design up other side; at strap ends, strands are quill wrapped (white with blocks of red), and there are metal cone and red hair tassels at ends; strap is edged with opaque white glass bead <br/>
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strap: nettle or vegetable fiber base, wrapped with moose hair (false embroidery), design colors contrasting in unusual design, asymmetrical. Not many straps with mooose hair false emboridery. Quillwork very much Anishinaabe style . Strap attached to front rather than back. Ribbon sewn on back.

1780 c.

<br/>(Ted Brasser, Plains Ethnologist, National Museum of Man) "The false-embroidered strap shows the distinctive asymmetric design composition of the Great Lakes Algonkian tribes." <br/>
<br/>(from Speyer, via T. Brasser) Formerly in the collection of Sir John Caldwell, Caldwell was 5th Baronet, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh, Ireland; Caldwell served during the American Revolution as an officer in the 8th Regiment of Foot; he was stationed briefly at Niagara, then sent to Detroit; he was then made a chief of the Ojibwa and given the name "Apatto" The Runner; took park 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 Mus. and they also have a complete set of color slides of the entire coll. (as does the Horniman Mus.)

<br/>Boujou Neejee, April 1976 - August 1979
<br/>Cobourg Art Gallery, September 1979 - October 1979

<br/>1) Benndorf and Speyer (1968);
<br/>2) source of biographical data: Oswald, Arthur "Sniterton Hall, Derbyshire, the home of Mr and Mrs Bagshawe", County Life, 2 Feb 1961, pp. 228-31. Portrait of Caldwell in Indian costume (see Mackinac History, Vol. II, Leaflet 1, 1972) shows him wearing this or similar bag.
<br/>3) Bo'jou Neejee exhibit catalogue #78.

A pre-existing record created by Ruth Phillips. Additional data added by Lisa Truong from CMC research trip Oct 31-Nov 2, 2012.