War Club With Knives
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: FROM CARD: "A LONG, RUDE [sic] HANDLE OF CEDAR, PIERCED WITH SEVEN HOLES AND ORNAMENTED WITH FOUR EAGLE FEATHERS. ABOUT MIDWAY IS A WRAPPING OF WIRE, USED TO STRENGTHEN THE SLENDER HANDLE. THE HEAD CONSISTS OF THREE STEEL BLADES ABOUT TWO INCHES APART. A FORMIDABLE WEAPON. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: From note on index card with artifact: "AMM 87 B 5 War club w/knives (mimia-chang-okaHapee). Used by a Yankton in Minnesota Massacre, and killed a Santee with it. Sold by its owner to escape starvation. Presented to Army Medical Museum by Asst. Surgeon A. B. Campbell, USA. Knives marked by "Henry H. Taylor & Brother" Sheffield."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8387-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club