War Club

Object Number:	97-84-1288
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Sioux
Provenience:	United States of America North Dakota Upper Missouri River
Culture Area:	Great Plains Culture Area
Section:	American
Materials:	Wood Iron Pigment Quill Skin
Credit Line:	Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number:	L-84-1288 - Old Museum Number 18547 - ANSP Number II 400 - Gottschall Number

Description

Wooden; ball head with long blade extension, with iron spike, made from a triangular file, and inserted in ball at right angle to haft. Painted with green, red, and yellow stripes and with buckskin wrist-strap beaded blue, green, and yellow on white and edged with red quilling.

Bibliography:

[Book] Gottschall, Amos H. 1909. Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of the Utensils, Implements, Weapons, Ornaments, Etc., of the Indians, Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers: Typical Collections No. 2.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: II 400