Beaded Cap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jan 1974
name: label: Collector
content: James M. Kelley
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Frances K. Lloyd
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Deep skull-cap shaped, made of triangular sections of red wool strouding, each one outlined in opaque white glass beads and having spaced floral designs in several shades of green and clear glass beads. The beads are excessively small, more so than the usual "seed" beads. Thread sewn. On top is a fully beaded rectangular tassel in white, blue and green. Inside are the remains of a paper lining through which the beads were sewn. This was part of a full costume (location unknown) made by Ch. [Charles] Bawgam's daughter for James Munger Kelly, donor's grandfather. Some beading damaged and few moth holes." Letter from donor in accession file indicates: "I think this hat was given to my grandfather, James Munger Kelley, (approximate date - 1849) by Charlie Bawgam, son of Chief Shawano of the Chippewas at or near Marquette, Mighican [sic]. ..."
label: Notes
content: A six-paneled domed beaded hat or cap.
label: Notes
content: "Charlie Bawgam" is presumably the man named Charles (Charley) Kaw-baw-gam/Kawbawgam (1799 - 1902). Charles Kawbawgam (Nawaquay-geezhik, "NoonDay") and his father (Charles Makadoaqua or Muk-kud-day-wuk-kwud, "Black Cloud") appear in early treaties as secondary chiefs. Charles Kawbawgam's stepfather was Shawano Kewainze (or Ka-ga-qua-dung), the last head chief at Sault Ste. Marie ("the Soo"). (Source: Rebecca J. Mead. "The Kawbawgam Cases: Native Claims and the Discovery of Iron in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan." Michigan Historical Review 40, no. 2 (2014): 1-31. doi:10.5342/michhistrevi.40.2.0001.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marquette, Marquette County, Michigan, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 309556
label: USNM Number
content: E416198-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat