War Club With Spike
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: IN THE LEDGER AND CARD CATALOG, "MINI WAKAN L." APPEARS AS PART OF THE LOCALE DESIGNATION. THIS IS VERY LIKELY A CORRUPTION OF "MINI WAUKON CHANTE," THE OLD INDIAN NAME FOR THE LAKE WHICH EARLY SETTLERS HAD MISTAKENLY GLOSSED AS "DEVIL'S LAKE." FROM CARD: "23729-30. #23729 - ILLUS. IN BAE 13TH AR, FIG. 322, P. 284. A SPECIMEN MARKED BOTH 23729 OMAHA AND DAKOTA BECKWITH 23731 WAS FOUND IN COLLECTION 10/10/1978. IT MATCHES THE ILLUSTRATION CITED ABOVE, WHICH IS ALSO MARKED OMAHA. THIS HAS CONSEQUENTLY BEEN CALLED 23729, WITH A ?." OLD EXHIBIT LABEL: WAR CLUB.--HANDLE OF WOOD, PAINTED IN ZIG-ZAG LINES AND SHAPED VERY MUCH LIKE A GUN. HEAD A PAINTED BLADE OF STEEL. FROM WHICH A SQUARE PORTION HAS BEEN CUT, DRIVEN INTO THE HANDLE AT THE BREECH. L. 31 IN. SIOUX INDIANS. 23729. COLLECTED BY PAUL BECKWITH. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: Bladed gunstock club listed on p. 17 of Feest, Christian. “On the Trail of the Duke's Club. Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württtemberg, Bladed Gunstock Clubs, and Evidence.” ERNAS Occasional Papers 1, 2023; https://www.academia.edu/96108242/On_the_Trail_of_the_Dukes_Club_Duke_Paul_Wilhelm_of_W%C3%BCrtttemberg_Bladed_Gunstock_Clubs_and_Evidence?source=swp_share .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Devil's Lake (Fort Totten) Agency, Benson County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
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: 005272
label: USNM Number
content: E23729-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 79 cm