- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- stone; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0018
- Description
- A swinging club with head of carved sandstone with deep groove for handle thong and three shallow incised grooves decorating larger side. A flexible handle of twisted buckskin cord is knotted around groove in rock with both ends wrapped together with a buckskin strip just below rock and again in m…
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- Title
- Swinging Club
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- stone; skin
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 9.5 x 43.0 cm
- Description
- A swinging club with head of carved sandstone with deep groove for handle thong and three shallow incised grooves decorating larger side. A flexible handle of twisted buckskin cord is knotted around groove in rock with both ends wrapped together with a buckskin strip just below rock and again in middle of handle. Ends are knotted together with extra length of twisted buckskin hanging below.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- warfare
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.06.0018
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