Hammer Item Number: 43.201.130 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This hammer has a wood handle covered with rawhide. The hammer is grey and brown stone, elliptical shaped.This club has some wear and tear but it has nice coloring and is interesting as the handle is so long. 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
- Name
- Hammer
- Identification Number
- 43.201.130
- Type of Item
- hammer
- Material
- stone and rawhide hide
- Measurements
- “29 1/2 with stone 7 1/16in. (75 x 18cm) Other: 29 1/2 with stone 7 1/16in. (75 x 18cm)” ?
Who
- Culture
- Plains
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1899
Other
- Classification
- Tool