Ball Head Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Richard C. Adams
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HANDLE ETCHED IN PART WITH HACHURE; APPENDED IS SILVER PLAQUE INSCRIBED 'DELAWARE WAR CLUB OF CAPT. SWANNOCK, WAR CHIEF, CARRIED THROUGH THE FLORIDA WAR OF 1838 [presumably the Second Seminole War], TRANSMITTED TO CAPT. SCONNEDOINE, WAR CHIEF, AND BY HIM CARRIED ON HIS 2 JOURNIES WITH [John Charles] FREMONT ACROSS THE ROCKY MTS., ALSO IN THE MEXICAN WAR, AND ALSO IN THE CIVIL WAR, ALWAYS ON BEHALF OF THE U.S.. PRESENTED BY THE DELAWARE INDIANS IN 1902 TO RICHARD C. ADAMS.' FEATHER PENDANT AT END OF HANDLE." NOTE: CORRECT SPELLING OF SCONNEDOINE SHOULD BE SECONDINE (=SEGUNDAI); ALSO SOMETIMES SPELLED SECOND EYE. INFORMATION PER DONALD H. SECONDINE, JR., GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON OF JAMES SECONDINE ABOVE. - CHANGE PER DR. W. STURTEVANT 12-11-1998. AS OF 1998, SILVER PLAQUE IS NO LONGER ATTACHED TO CLUB. IT AND FEATHER PENDANT ARE VISIBLE IN OLD PHOTO NEG. #31181B. - F. PICKERING 12-14-1998
label: Notes
content: Illustrated on p. xl of Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing, by Richard C. Adams, 1997 edition, Syracuse University Press [originally published 1905]
label: Notes
content: As noted above, this artifact was formerly owned by Richard Calmit Adams, who in 1909 lent it to the Smithsonian under loan acccession no. 49797, catalogue no. 253554. Reference: "Indian Relics For Museum," The Washington Post, February 27, 1909, 5. After Adams' death in 1921, objects from his collection were sold to Victor Justice Evans. See also the remarks in the records for related objects E362061-0, E362062-0, and E362064-0.
label: Notes
content: Club E362066 is probably the one referenced on p. 22 and p. 36 of Adams, Richard C. 1921. Claims of the Delaware Indians; memorial of the Delaware tribe of Indians ... in support of Senate bill 663 and H.R. 6051. http://archive.org/details/claimsofdelaware00adam .
label: Notes
content: Ball head club with metal spike.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Dec 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware (Lenape)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E362066-0