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club, with steel spike
club, with steel spike
club, with steel spike
A wooden club with a steel spike and incised lines decorating the handle. Possibly Anishaabe or Eastern Plains, made in the 18th or early 19th century. In the collections of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Donor unknown.
Based on an attribution given by Dr. Sturtevant in 1980 (see above)
Based on museum documentation and the GRASAC research team.
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wood, metal (?steel); hide?; varnish or coating; lead
A single piece of wood carved at an oblique angle at one end, with a triangular steel blade with slightly rounded sides inserted into the outer edge at apex of angle. The blade seems to be wedged into the wood with hide or some other substance. The blade is varnished and this substance has also coated the "wedging" material making it diffcult to tell what it is.
According to the museum's description, "The blade has been fitted into a slot on the lower edge of the handle and soldered with lead."
The handle is decorated with two parallel-incised lines running along the border of the front half on both sides.
According to the museum's online collections database entry, "In 1976, Professor James H. Howard of Oklahoma suggested the club was made in the East Woodlands area, late 18th or early 19th century. However, in 1980 Dr. Sturtevant of the Smithsonian Museum suggested that the club was made by the Ojibwa or East Plains tribes in the late 19th Century."
Provenance
In the collections of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Donor unknown.
About This GRASAC Record
Item to be cited by catalog number, collection and institution.
Created during a GRASAC research trip visit to the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow in April 2007.
On-site researchers: Cory Willmott, Laura Peers, Ruth Phillips, Keith Jamieson, Alan Corbiere, Sally-Ann Coupar
45.6426, -85.036
According to the museum's catalogue record, "in 1980 Dr. Sturtevant of the Smithsonian Museum suggested that the club was made by the Ojibwa or East Plains tribes"