Described in a 1653 letter by the Puritan John Eliot, no known version of this object exists today.
Creators: Unknown, likely French.
Date of Creation: ca. 1650s
Place of origin: Likely France
Physical measurements: Unknown.
Materials: Brass
Process by which it was made: Casting
Current location: N/A
Further Reading
Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: Remapping a New History of King Philip’s War. 2018. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press.
Cipolla, Craig, editor. 2017. Foreign Objects: Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American
Archaeology, Tuscon, AZ, University of Arizona Press.
Clark, Michael P., editor. 2003. The Eliot Tracts. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Greer, Allan, editor. 2019. The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth
Century North America, Second Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Information contributed by Marie B. Taylor.