Club

Museum number:
2-5705
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005705
Alternate number:
2300 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13
Description:
Ovate stone head; hafted on hide covered wood handle; red/blue bead strings attached to handle.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
For war.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 54 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-5705, described as Ovate stone head; hafted on hide covered wood handle; red/blue bead strings attached to handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-5705, described as Ovate stone head; hafted on hide covered wood handle; red/blue bead strings attached to handle.

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