Object Number | 38-8-42 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sioux |
Provenience | United States of America |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Stone | Rawhide |
Description | War club. Spherical stone head and haft covered with skin, shrunken on and coloured blue. Broad buckskin band, fringed, beaded and wrapped with strung beads, encases the shaft at each end; pendent from the head is a tassel of sinew-wrapped horse hair dyed purple; pendant of cow's hair and cut feathers attached to proximal end. |
Length | 83.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Rodman Wanamaker III, 1938 |
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