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ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GULF OF GEORGIA AND PUGET SOUND. SMITH, HARLAN I. MEMOIRS, 4, 1907
Museum Expedition 1930, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund and the Museum Collection Fund
The Sioux gun stock club (bottom in photograph) is made of red pipestone too brittle to use for battle. It may have been used in ceremonies since the lead inlays represent potent images; the sun, a bison, a deer, a thunderbird, hearts and arrows. Alternatively, it may have been made for sale. The reverse side at one time also had lead inlays and shows markings that may be more related to astrological signs, half moons, stars and crossed diamonds.
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."