War Club, With Spear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 13TH AR, FIG. 320, P. 283 (OMAHA CLUB) THIS SPECIMEN BEARS "WAR DEPARTMENT 1841" NOTATION. SIOUX TYPE OF CLUB, JCE 11/1978. DETAIL OF CLUB ILLUS.: EWERS, JOHN C. PLAINS INDIAN SCULPTURE; FIG. 125, PG. 137. IDENTIFIED THERE AS WEASEL EFFIGY WAR CLUB; PAINTED WOOD, METAL SPIKE; UPPER MISSOURI."
label: Notes
content: PROBABLY OMAHA OR OTO, CIRCA 1840, per Colin Taylor, 1994.
label: Notes
content: Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as from the War Department, no cultural designation given. Marked on specimen as War Dept. Length: 21"
label: Notes
content: Ball head club with metal spike.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not given
label: Culture
content: Omaha (Umonhon) (?)
label: Culture
content: Otoe (?)
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: E2649-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club