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>>>>ball-headed
Subject: sachem war chief
Culture: Iroquois & allied Indians
Setting: French & Indian War / Pontiac's War, Great Lakes/Ohio Valley 1754-1764
Object: ball-headed club

Fort Pitt Museum *
"Ball War Club, late 18th or early 19th century
Attributed to the Caughnawaga Mohawk.
  The words 'Th Youngs' are engraved on the handle.
  Young was probably a Native American."


* Royal Ontario Museum > Gallery of Canada -- First Peoples
"Ball-headed club"




Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas *
"Ball-headed Club  Western Great Lakes,
 late 18th century  Wood, metal"

* DR Good
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Yorktown Victory Center *
"Northeast Woodlands ball-headed club, [above] 
American, eighteenth century, wood.  Originally used as weapons,
 clubs such as this took on ceremonial and symbolic functions during the colonial era."


* Royal Ontario Museum > Canada -- First Peoples
"Massue à tête arrondie Joseph Brant, Mohawk  Bois, ruban, plumes  XVIIIe siècle ..."
Royal Ontario Museum > Canada -- First Peoples *
"Massue en bois à tête arrondie, George H.M. Johnson, prop.
Mohawk, mi-XIXe siècle  Six Nations of the Grand River ..."


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