Wood, black, red, green paint

Chip carving technique used to inset the diamonds

Carved with jaws of a serpentine animal grasping ball; shaft carved with parallel diagonal lines, graduated diamond shapes, cross-hatched crosses, ball and handle painted black, three diamonds on centre of shaft painted green, red, black

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection, Toronto: Independant Order of Foresters, 1904, p 66

414. "War Club, Oneida, a snake holding the ball at head in its mouth."

Unknown artist, ball-headed club. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, HJ 186. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 504.

GRASAC team research trip to the Royal Ontario Museum, Dec 15-19 2008, funded by SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant. Participants: Heidi Bohaker, Alan Corbiere, Lewis Debassige, Anne De Stecher, Darlene Johnston, Stacey Loyer, Trudy Nicks, Ruth Phillips

Ethnography team, Dec 18: Cory Willmott, Trudy Nicks, Anne De Stecher, Ruth Phillips assisted by Tracey Forester