musket, flintlock. Marked "Barnett 1869" and with a fox over the initials "EB" in the lockplate. Brass serpent sideplate. Missing top of cock vise and butt plate. 24 gauge (24 bore, or 24 balls to the pound of lead). Authentic "Northwest Gun".
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada and English
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 27, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Muskets
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Type of gun traded to the Indians during the greater part of the 19th century.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
The fox over the initials "EB" is the trademark mark of acceptance of the Hudson Bay Co. E.B. is "Edward Bond, first of a number of inspectors for the Northwest Gun trade. The firm of Barnett produced more trade guns than any other firm. The barrel has been shortened for convenience; or out of necessity after being burst, a common occurence during the rapid loading and firing techniques of the plains Indian while hunting bison from horseback."