Powder Horns

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Description:

Currently on display in the Revolutionary War Exhibit at the Museum, this powder horn is made of cowhorn and is outfitted with a wooden charger and a round wooden stopper at the base fixed with a metal strap loop at the center. Engravings of the British Coat-of-Arms accompanied with the motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom, "Dieu et mon droit" ("God and my right") along with the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Shame be to him who thinks evil of it) can be found as well as forts and locations of New York, Albany, "Skanodody" (Schenectady?), Johnston's Fall, Fort Stanwix, Brounton, "Ontari" (Ontario?), Sawmill, and Niagra. The maker's mark of "J. Ewing Colhoon [sic] His Horn John Ewing Colhoun" can also be found.