Indian Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Thomas L. McKenney
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS, OR SPECIMEN NUMBERS 5395 OR 5397, MAY BE THE "WAR AX" MENTIONED IN THE FOLLOWING ENTRY OF JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM ORIGINAL CATALOG (IN SMITHSONIAN INSTIT. ARCHIVES).: "AN INDIAN WAR AX AND 2 SPEAR HEADS OF STONE FROM THE ROCKEY MOUNTAINS" COLLECTED BY VARDEN IN ST. LOUIS, AUG. 1830, FROM J. DAUBERMAN. (NO. 43 IN HIS CATALOG). *SEE P. 47 OF THE INDIAN LEGACY OF CHARLES BIRD KING BY HERMAN VIOLA, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1976, WHERE THIS ARTIFACT IS IDENTIFIED AS HAVING BELONGED TO OKEEMAKEEQUID, CHIPPEWA."
label: Notes
content: This club was at one time identified as collected by Thomas McKenney from Okeemakeequid, Chippewa. This identification was made by Herman Viola (1976) and was based on his visual comparison to the club shown in the print of that leader as published in the McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery. However, this club is only 16" long, much smaller than the one show there, which is a typical ball-headed warclub without further distinguishing features. The original catalog ledger lists the source for this as War Department, National Institute, Jno Varden, with the locality given as Missouri Valley (the locality assigned to almost all War Dept material.) Of the various clubs received from the National Institute, it is not known why someone recorded information on the catalog card suggesting that this piece came from Varden's Washington Museum.
label: Notes
content: Ball head club.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5396-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club