Club

Museum number:
2-15975
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
233 L-53 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.754
Description:
Ovate stone head; hafted on wood handle with red-stained buckskin trim.
Donor:
Guy J. Giffen and Helen Smith Giffen
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Guy J. Giffen and Helen Smith Giffen
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1940
Context of use:
For war. "Traded.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 39.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1943-1944 #2: Mills College, Art Department (September 14, 1943–October 15, 1943) and S1968-1969 #43: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (November 7, 1968–November 7, 1968)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-15975, described as Ovate stone head; hafted on wood handle with red-stained buckskin trim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 2-15975, described as Ovate stone head; hafted on wood handle with red-stained buckskin trim.

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