War club
This ceremonial club, popularly referred to as a gunstock club, takes the form of a deer leg and is inscribed with cosmological imagery: one side has thirty-seven four-pointed stars, and the other has the graceful image of a comet complemented by four zigzag lines. Holes and channels that span the trailing edge of the club may have held feathers or other adornments.
Artwork Details
- Title: War club
- Date: ca. 1800
- Geography: Made in Nebraska, United States
- Culture: Pawnee, Native American
- Medium: Wood and pigment
- Dimensions: 27 × 5 × 3/4 in. (68.6 × 12.7 × 1.9 cm)
- Credit Line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.456.19
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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