ball headed club
ball headed club
ball headed club
Ball headed club with animal head motif, and engraved arrow, tipi, and serpent with a janus faced human head on shaft that could possibly be a dodem, Peter Jones Collection, Anishinaabe
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wood, metal black glass bead
leaf shaped metal point inserted into centre of the ball
ball is held in the jaws of an animal whose many teeth are clearly shown, along the shaft are a diamond shape with concave sides, an arrow, and a trianlular tipi motif. a zig-zag line is carved at the top border of the shaft. A serpent with a split tail and a janus faced human head is carved on one side of the base of the shaft
In discussion we queried whether the serpent motif could be a dodem. Alan Corbiere explained that there was a fish dodems in the eastern great lakes with a split tails and others that also referred to splitting
Style of club appears mid-19th century