Although photos of old jawbone warclubs are rare, several museums in the West having elk jaw clubs on display attribute them to various other Plains tribes. The teeth on these were not flattened, assumedly to enhance the wounding effect of a misplaced blow. This warclub interpretation uses a buffalo jawbone as the club head. The round hole becomes the eye of the club's bird-like silhouette. The gunstock warclub, in its many forms, was a prominent item in both the Plains and Woodland regions.
Development seems to have started in the early seventeenth century.
Interpretation of this form was highly individual, ranging from broad, highly ornate, radically flared slabs of wood to slender, barely curved clubs mounted with two or three knife blades. Whether for battle or ceremony, the gunstock warclub represented martial readiness, authority and accomplishment. It became a highly visible palette for a warrior's personal medicine. Paint, brass tacks, carving, hair, feathers and hanging appendages were favored decorations. This gunstock warclub is of a type found in areas between the western Woodlands and the eastern Plains.