Women's Wabanaki Peaked Cap, Intricate Traditional Bead Design P St John -Mohawk

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This is a traditional Wabanaki women's peaked cap worn c/1700's-1920. It has elaborate traditional beadwork design.  This is the 4th Wabanaki style peaked cap by Paul I have offered in the past year or two. (others are sold) This one has beautifully detailed beadwork and also features a wide bottom border of black wool with separate beadwork designs. It is longer than most of the previous peaked caps by Paul.  It is of vintage red wool - a darker red than most of the previous peaked caps made by Paul have been. Those were red trade wool which is closer to a scarlet red.  Black silk ribbon binds all the edges. The bottom black wool border is separated from the red wool top by a yellow silk ribbon. The cap is lined with a red calico cotton material that has fine black floral design. Paul used designs on a mid-1800's MicMac bag - (Mi'kmaq is the Canadian spelling).  This bag which is in a Canadian museum has similar designs in the white, yellow and blue beads.  - Other designs are in white, red and green beads.<br>(As I list this peaked cap - I also have and will soon list - a matching collar with similar bead design, same red wool and same inner lining calico material.  -  If you are interested in regalia...  this set would be a great start toward a complete outfit.)<br>This cap is decorated with a traditional Wabanaki beadwork design featuring double curves, trifoliate designs and more. This peaked cap is made by Paul St John, Mohawk craftsman.   The early Wabanaki beadwork design on the sides is made of double curves with some diamond and trifoliate shapes. The design is of vintage glass seed beads in white, light blue and yellow.  -  It is gorgeous!<br>The Wabanaki confederation tribes include Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Maliseet and MicMac (Mi'kmaq or Mi'kmaw are Canadian spellings of MicMac). All Wabanaki tribes use the double curve design as do the Iroquois.<br>4th photo is of  Christina Paul,  Mi'kmaq (1804-1886).  She is wearing Victorian dress - and an intricately Wabanaki beaded peaked cap.  She was a famous porcupine quill worker, one of her pieces is on a table beside her.<br>The cap is 18.75" high from top of peak to bottom of cap and 10.5" from side to back of cap.<br>Women of the Wabanaki tribes wore these caps from the 1700's until as late as 1920's.  Later use has been as part of a woman's regalia for dance and ceremonies.<br>You can use this as part of your regalia, or as a purse or shopping bag or as a beautiful display piece.<br>Recently Paul St John made a Glengarry man's cap (Wabanaki & Iroquois made/wore these) with similar beadwork design (Glengarry is sold), a smaller Wabanaki wom3n's peaked cap with different beadwork designs (sold)  as well as a few small bags also similarly beaded.  These are some of my favorite beaded pieces by Paul.<br>Paul St. John now lives in Maine, near his mother's  Passamaquoddy/Maliseet/Micmac relatives.  He is an enrolled Mohawk and grew up on the Mohawk lands in New York, his father's tribe.   2nd from last photo in slideshow is of Paul St John and 2 of his other works.  Last photo is of his Mohawk grandmother, Amelia St John who taught him beading.<br>Paul St John also makes birchbark, porcupine and coiled sweetgrass baskets, beaded knife cases, barrettes and moccasins among numerous other traditional crafts - check out more of his work in this ebay store.<br>