Description:
Powder horn inscribed: "ROMAN WETMORE / Oswego Aug 6 1760." The horn has a single cartouche with a scalloped and cross-hatched border containing Wetmore's name. Details of the Hudson River with towns and forts variously inscribed "Albany," “Moon” (for Half Moon), “S-Water” (for Still Water), “Saratoga," and “Miller” (for Fort Miller) extend the lengh of the horn. The horn is also decorated with drawings of vegetation, an owl, and a deer. The border along the plug end of the horn is composed of a row of repeating cross-hatched trianges below a row of repeating leaves connected by arches. The spout end is decorated with a sawtooth pattern border.

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