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ball-headed club
ball-headed club
ball-headed club
Ball-headed club made from light, soft wood. Adorned with zigzag patterned lines, feather motifs, and lines of x's carved at the top of the shaft on both sides. Haudenosaunee.
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Made of light, soft wood, red pigment rubbed in
Constructed using one piece of wood
The ball is knotched at the top of the shaft, where there is zigzag line with a line with a feather motif. There is a line of X's , and another X on the feathers. The other side of shaft has a feathered line and a zigzag, with broad zigzag with rayed lines inside and above, and another zigzag and a cross.
Johann Georg Schwarz collected this item, possibly when he traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.
Provenance
Johann Georg Schwarz traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, ball-headed club. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 11964. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 58988.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in November 2021 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.