Slung Shot War-Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John B. White
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. John B. White
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SLUNG SHOT. ---HANDLE MADE OF WOOD AND COVERED WITH DARK-BLUE CLOTH, ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS. THE HEAD IS A ROUGH OVAL STONE AND IS TIGHTLY COVERED WITH RAWHIDE AND SUSPENDED FROM THE HANDLE BY STRIPS OF THE SAME MATERIAL. FROM THE UPPER END OF THE HANDLE HANGS A PLUME OF WHITE HORSEHAIR, A PORTION OF WHICH IS WRAPPED WITH BRIGHT-RED CLOTH. A BUCKSKIN LOOP IS ATTACHED TO THE HANDLE. LENGTH, 17 INCHES; DIAMETER OF HEAD, 3 1/2 INCHES. APACHE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK), IND. TER. 21,507. COLLECTED BY DR. J. B. WHITE. INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Notes
content: "No. 12 [21,507] and 18 [21,517] are about the person of Indians without arms whenever the different tribes are unfriendly to each other and come together.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004869
label: USNM Number
content: E21507-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Diameter - Head
content: 8.9 cm