Model of war club: wooden straight club with small hole accomodating a cord of striped cotton in red, white, and blue. Club made of mesquite wood.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
circumference 18 centimeters, circumference 10 centimeters, and length 52.3 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Illustrated on p. 9 of Mohave Culture Items by Leslie Spier 1955 Bulletin 25 Museum of No. Arizona.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #25: California State University, Chico (October 18, 1973–July 3, 1975) and S1981-1982 #57: Department of Anthropology (CSU Chico) (April 5, 1982–February 24, 1983)