A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. A gold lace cap band obtained from the Inuit at Pelly Bay by the Rae expedition on 21 April 1854. The Inuit said that they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation. A strip of gold lace has been joined up with a piece of caribou skin and a thong. The item is shown in the drawing by Edward Pulleyn (AAA3972). It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 2 December 1854.