War Club Item Number: 50.67.75 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This wooden club is the gunstock type but it is without a metal blade. It is ornamented with chip carving and brass tacks, but one side is decorated with incising applied by fire or a hot metal tool. The original Jarvis (collector) inscription for the piece reads," Chippeway War Club."
Credit Line
Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund
Item History
- Made between 1800 and 1825
What
- Name
- War Club
- Identification Number
- 50.67.75
- Type of Item
- war club
- Material
- wood and brass nail
- Overall
- length 30.5 in, width 6.5 in, height 0.75 in
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1825
Other
- Classification
- Arms and Armor