Club Item Number: 2762/39 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Beaded swinging club. Heavy stone ? ball, covered with skin and four lines of pink, light blue and navy beads that extend up into a beaded rawhide strap, is tied to and hangs from another beaded strap that is nailed into the top of a short wood staff. The staff is covered with a sheath of light brown fabric around which are coiled strings of beads in bands of light blue, navy, green, pink, silver coloured metal, mustard, translucent red, and turquoise. A piece of rawhide leather with fringes is stitched to either end of the sheath.