club, ball-headed

club, ball-headed

club, ball-headed

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Introduction

A seventeenth century Hodenosaunee ball-headed club with single line engravings and notched triangular motifs on one side. Transferred to the museum from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden (The Royal Cabinet of Curiosities) in The Hague when it closed in 1883.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

Museum documentation

Date Made or Date Range: 1600/1700
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

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Materials

wood with burl

Techniques or Format

Carved from a single piece of wood. Shaft is flat, carved narrower than the handle end, and curves around the burl forming the ball-head. Single engraved line decorates the top edge along the length of the shaft on both sides; one side also has notched triangular, sawtooth or zigzag(?) motifs hear the handle. Single perforation in the centre of the shaft near the handle end.

Motifs and Patterns

triangles, sawtooth or zigzags(?) notched on one side of the shaft near the handle end

Other Notes

Ball-head may have been ornamented(?) - see in photos possibly circular inlay of some kind?

Dimensions: 54 × 16 × 10.5 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Museum documentation.

Current Location: Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 360-1579
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1883
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Koninklijk Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden (The Royal Cabinet of Curiosities)
Collection Narratives and Histories

Transferred to the museum from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden (The Royal Cabinet of Curiosities) in The Hague when it closed in 1883.

GKS Reference Number: 24564
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

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