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>>1754 Iroquois sachem
>>>clubs
>>>>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"

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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 [above] 
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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