wampum belt

wampum belt

wampum belt

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Introduction

wampum belt, warp of thin skin thongs, weft of vegetable fibre string strung with purple and white shell beads

Date Made or Date Range: 1775/1780
Materials

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Other Notes

wampum belt, warp of thin skin thongs, weft of vegetable fibre string strung with purple and white shell beads;;

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

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Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-X-253
Collection Narratives and Histories

(DOCUMENTATION) (from Speyer, via T. Brasser) and they also have a complete set of color 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.

GKS Reference Number: 24856
Approximate Place of Origin

44.16098, -91.78108