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Antique Powder Horn

Powder horn

Unidentified maker, made for William Clark

Horn, wood

Centimetres: 37.2 (length), 8.5 (outside diameter)

c. 1760

Area of Origin: Quebec, Canada

Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada

Copy and images from Royal Ontario Museum.

Antique Pressed Buffalo Horn

An unusual pressed buffalo horn. Believed to be one the decorated buffalo horns made around St Louis. Decorated with bone and Catlinite.

Width of butt plug 4 1/2 inch

Outside curve 15 1/4 inch not counting the turned horn stopper

Copy and photos supplied by friend of Contemporary Makers Blog.

Antique Powder Horn

Photographed at the 2013 Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show by Jan Riser.

Powder Horn from The Chiefswood Collection

Powder horn

Iroquois

Hand carved; cow horn, hide, brass, wood

Length 26.5 x width 8 x height 9 cm

18th century

Area of Origin: Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario, Canada

Area of Use: 2.6.3 John Smoke Johnson

Owned by George H.M. Johnson, Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River

Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples

Gift of Miss Evelyn H.C. Johnson; The Chiefswood Collection

Some of the earliest objects in the collection – a ball-headed club, a powder horn and a collection of silver brooches – belonged to her great grandparents, and date to the period of the American Revolution (1776 – 1783) and the War of 1812. In the early 20th century Evelyn H.C. Johnson, a member of a prominent Six Nations Mohawk family, donated to the Royal Ontario Museum a large number of objects named the Chiefswood Collection after the name of the Johnson family home. In this collection, Evelyn Johnson created a remarkable record of her family over four generations, and of events that involved the Iroquoian people at Six Nations from the end of the American Revolution to the Six Nations Agricultural Fair of 1922.