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War club
Date
ca. 1800
Medium
Wood and pigment
Dimensions
27 × 5 × 3/4 in. (68.6 × 12.7 × 1.9 cm)
Culture
Pawnee, Native American
Department
The American Wing
Gallery
746
Location
746
Credit
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019

Description

Overview War club Pawnee, Native American ca. 1800 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 746 This ceremonial club, popularly referred to as a gunstock club, takes the form of a deer leg and is inscribed with cosmological imagery: one side has thirty-seven four-pointed stars, and the other has the graceful image of a comet complemented by four zigzag lines. Holes and channels that span the trailing edge of the club may have held feathers or other adornments.