Native American Powder Horn
By kind permission of the Royal Sussex Regimental Museum Association Trust
This container was for storing gunpowder used in muskets in the 18th century and was made from cow, ox or buffalo horn. It was taken from the body of a Native American guide (most likely, Mohawk, Huron or Mohican) working for American colonials. He was killed by Major William Gaull at the Battle of White Plains on the River Bronx, near New York in 1776. The cutler’s mark on the blade is from the French foundry at St Étienne in France and was probably traded to Native American by French fur traders.
