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club, gunstock
club, gunstock
club, gunstock
Gunstock club, attributed to the Oneida. Wooden shaft set with iron blade. Triangular chip carving forms possible zig-zag or lightning lines. A hawk, eagle or thunderbird carrying an arrow in talons found on each side of upper portion of shaft. Red, and possibly black paint also used. Dr. Oronhyatekha Ethnology collection.
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Wood, red paint, possibly also black paint, iron blade
Triangular chip carving along sides, carved inset area at handle end
Triangular chip carving border forms zig-zag or lightning lines, a thunderbird or eagle carrying arrow in claws on each side of upper portion
Thunderbird/eagles more representational in style than earlier images
Provenance
F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904), p 66, Item 415. "Elbow War Club, iron blade inserted. Hawk totem of Oneida band."
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, club, gunstock. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 911.3.172. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 1343.
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