Hammer with Beaded Handle Item Number: 43.201.128 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This hammer has a handle totally covered with hide that extends over the stone hammer. The grey stone hammer has no grooves but is tapered on each end.At one time this might have had a decorative horsetail hanging from it. Such clubs were used in dances before a hunt and had symbolic and ceremonial function not a war function. Members of a society carried these as badges of honor and emblems of office.
Credit Line
Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harlow Brooks
Item History
- Made between 1800 and 1899
What
Who
- Culture
- Plains
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1899
Other
- Classification
- Tool