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War club with a stick handle attached to a rock head with a secure wrap of rawhide / Native American; Sioux

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War Club -- The club is constructed of a stick handle attached to a rock head with a secure wrap of rawhide. A buckskin band at the butt end of the handle is decorated with blue and white seed beads. There is a long streamer of hair attached to the butt end of the handle.

Many Plains tribes used stone-headed clubs in warfare. These clubs often had a wooden handle, which would attach to the stone head with rawhide thongs. The handles of war clubs were often decorated with beads or quills and hair.

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Title(s): 
War club with a stick handle attached to a rock head with a secure wrap of rawhide
Culture: 
Native American; Sioux
Date: 
19th century
Period: 
Historic
Place: 
Great Plains, United States of America
Materials/Techniques: 
wood, leather, horse hair, beads, sinew, stone
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Accession No: 
84.1073
Department: 
Not On View

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