Root Club (made for sale)

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Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
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collected 1902-1909

Birch wood and root

Overall: 19 11/16 × 9 in. (50 × 22.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9904

Geography

Place Made: Old Town, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Inscriptions

Written on club "War club Old Town, Maine"

Exhibition History

The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.

Provenance

Unknown maker, Old Town, Maine; collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Old Town, Maine, 1902-1909; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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