War Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "War Club. - Made of a strip of wood with a series of eleven big iron spikes partly driven in the lower end of the club. A strip of rawhide and a strip of tin, both daubed with yellow, green, and red, paint, are nailed on the side of the club opposite the spikes. Length, 31 inches; width, 2 1/4 inches."
label: Notes
content: The wooden section resembles a furniture part?, and has been studded with large nails to form a club. This may have been constructed by or for Catlin, instead of being of Native American construction? Compare to E73282 - F. Pickering 9-17-2020
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain), North America (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E73279-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club