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Club
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Artist/Maker
Datec. 1875
MediumStone, wood and leather
DimensionsOverall: 32 × 4 1/4 × 2 in. (81.3 × 10.8 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineTransferred from the Knox Hall of Natural History, Hamilton College
Object number1984.545
Not on view
DescriptionOne of four red and yellow stone head war clubs.

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2011
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future," September 15 - December 16, 2011 (no cat.).

Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
by 1979 - 1984: Hamilton College (Anthropology Department), by transfer from the Knox Hall of Natural History;
by 1925: Hamilton College (Knox Hall of Natural History), by gift from an unknown donor (research pending).
Inscribed Inscribed in ink on leather strap around stone: NAPl 20 / E101 [crossed out]
Club
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Stone, wood, leather, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.544
Club
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather, wood, stone, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.547
Club
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Wood, leather and stone
Object number: 1984.546
Fragment of a Beaded Loop
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather; blue and white glass beads
Object number: 1984.537
Doll Head
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: White stone with human hair
Object number: 1984.510
Knife
Unknown artist
Date: 1850-1900
Medium: Wood, leather, and metal
Object number: 1984.512
Photograph by John Bentham.
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1870-75
Medium: Leather with dentalium shells and trade beads
Object number: 1984.456
Fragment of a beaded loop
Unknown artist
Date: unknown
Medium: Leather and glass beads
Object number: 1984.536
Spoon
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1850-1900
Medium: Mountain sheep horn with leather
Object number: 1984.462
Knife sheath
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and sinew
Object number: 1984.543
Knife Sheath
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with rawhide, glass beads, and tin cone dangles
Object number: 1984.542
Pipebag
Unknown artist
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Leather with sinew, porcupine quill, yarn, and glass beads
Object number: 1984.533