War-Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. A. B. Campbell
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO JOHN C. EWERS ("THE AWESOME BEAR IN PLAINS INDIAN ART," AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE 7(3):40, 1982) THIS IS DESCRIBED AS: "BEAR TRACKS INCISED AND PAINTED ON THE HANDLE OF A WAR CLUB BELONGING TO MAN-WITH-LEGS-WIDE-APART, CHIEF OF THE YANKTON SIOUX "HALF-BREEDS" [sic, i.e. mixed-blood or Metis?]. COLLECTED BY A.B. CAMPBELL, 1868." NOTES ADDED BY C. GREENE, 1/5/1999. As of 2006, this ball head club with metal spike has faded inked inscriptions on it, which have been transcribed on a typed card stored with the club in this way: "Club of Cha Chine Na, Yankton "Half-breed [sic, mixed-blood]." This club occupied the chief two months in carving it." Someone has added a translation for Cha Chine Na as "man with legs wide apart" on the typed card, and has noted "chief of Yankton Half-Breeds" [sic, mixed-bloods] as well. The typed card notes that white lettering was removed from the black paint on the face of the club. The card indicates the white lettering said: "AMM 92.B.6 Warclub of a Yankton Chief, Dr. A. B. Campbell U.S.A." - F. Pickering 5-24-2006
label: Notes
content: Listed in the original AMM catalog as #92, War club of Cha Chainnah the chief of the Yankton half breeds [sic, mixed-bloods].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Dakota
label: Culture
content: Metis (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8392-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club