Club

Museum number:
2-5566
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3732 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Biconical stone head hafted in beaded buckskin with attached feathers; handle hide covered, bearded, painted; beaded carrying loop.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
lead war club carried in dancing
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 62 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-5566, described as Biconical stone head hafted in beaded buckskin with attached feathers; handle hide covered, bearded, painted; beaded carrying loop.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-5566, described as Biconical stone head hafted in beaded buckskin with attached feathers; handle hide covered, bearded, painted; beaded carrying loop.

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