A few examples of appraisal values for
WAR CLUB

• WALNUT CARVED WOOD EAGLE TALON WAR CLUBca.
  WALNUT CARVED WOOD EAGLE TALON WAR CLUBca. 18th-19th century; "Skull Cracker"-type war club carved from highly grain limb union and shaved handle, the eagle talon form relief carved depicting grasping round ball head, excellent polished dark brown patina, 3"d head, 3 3/4"x 14"; Condition: nice form with excellent patina
• CARVED CHESTNUT/HICKORY WOOD WAR CLUBca.
  CARVED CHESTNUT/HICKORY WOOD WAR CLUBca. mid 19th century; ball shaped war club with relief carved snake head wrapping on ball mallet, flute carved collar and painted with blue and red, handle has relief carved four-point star or floral design, stained and oil varnish finished, attributed to Eastern Sioux tribe, 4"x 22"x 3 1/4"; [Provenance: ex-Monroe Museum, NY]; Condition: good
• SIOUX WAR DANCE CLUBca. 1890-1910; birch
  SIOUX WAR DANCE CLUBca. 1890-1910; birch handled socket mounted stone celt crafted war club for dance, attributed to Sioux tribe, appears to be an old granite stone celt with shaved crooked birch branch, hand drilled, sawn and shaved to form an eye for stone head, 5 1/2"x 17 3/4"; Condition: good
• 2 PENOBSCOT ATTRIBUTED WOODEN WAR CLUBSca.
  2 PENOBSCOT ATTRIBUTED WOODEN WAR CLUBSca. mid-late 19th century; both dug birch sapling with gnarled root balls, each with peeled shaft with chip carved designs and shellacked surfaces: one carved with animal head and fine carved multiple frond designs on shaft and one diamond center star design, 6"d, 19 1/2"l; one simple hound head carved on club head with chip carved shaft with coil wrapped design that has painted accents, the heel of handle with fine relief carved star design, 7"d, 23 1/2"l; Condition: both appear to be birch species wood with extensive surface oxidation, good forms
• SIOUX SKULL CRACKER STONE WAR CLUB WITH
  SIOUX SKULL CRACKER STONE WAR CLUB WITH BEADWORK Hca. 19th century; massive pointed stone with elongated and tapered point on both ends, wooden handle that is central point mounted and beaded hide wrapped, the shaft of handle with strung beads on cloth wrap with red, white and green beadwork, 6"x 21"x 2"; Condition: small knick from one point, thong wrist wrap missing from end of handle
• APACHE-TYPE PONYTAIL WAR CLUBca. 19th
  APACHE-TYPE PONYTAIL WAR CLUBca. 19th century; hide covered stone and stick design war club with free swinging circular disc shaped stone and tipped with horse hair tipped end of handle, wooden shaft handle with braided horse hair grip band on handle, 24"; Condition: fine dark patina, appears correct
• CARVED AND PAINT DECORATED CEREMONIAL
  CARVED AND PAINT DECORATED CEREMONIAL WAR CLUBca. late 19th-early 20th century; war club of dug rootball sapling with chip carved and paint decorated Native chief head with headdress, two shaved spikes on reverse of painted face, sapling handle bark stripped and carved with decorative accents, finished with light varnish finish, attributed to Penobscot Nation, 22"; Condition: good
• Lakota Sioux War Club, 19th/early 20th
  Lakota Sioux War Club, 19th/early 20th century with an ovoid stone head on a rawhide wrapped haft length 24.6 in — 62.5 cm
• Fiji "Bowai' War Club, 19th century
  Fiji "Bowai' War Club, 19th century the flaring barrel with incised linear pattern, the banded knob with similar pommel length 39.5 in — 100.3 cm
• Fiji Islands Sali (Gunstock) War Club,
  Fiji Islands Sali (Gunstock) War Club, Melanesia, Oceania, 19th century spurred head with geometric carved decorations to curved shaft and butt end length 42 in — 106.7 cm
• NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE WAR CLUB Engraved
  NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE WAR CLUB Engraved tiger maple and iron.
• PENOBSCOT WAR CLUB Carved and painted
  PENOBSCOT WAR CLUB Carved and painted wood with burl and stylized buffalo.
• NATIVE AMERICAN WAR CLUB 19th century,
  NATIVE AMERICAN WAR CLUB 19th century, probably Iroquois. With stone head and animal-hide-wrapped wooden handle.
• 2pc Old Polynesian Carved Wood Fijan
  2pc Old Polynesian Carved Wood Fijan War Clubs 30''
• PENOBSCOT STYLE BIRCH ROOT WAR CLUB,
  PENOBSCOT STYLE BIRCH ROOT WAR CLUB, MID-20TH C. Mid-20th century birch root war club in the style of the Penobscot of Maine, made in classical form, the standard stripped of bark and chip carved with trailing fern fronds, the head of the club carved to resemble a buck with multiple pointed antlers, apparently unmarked, with a custom black metal stand. Provenance: From the Private Collection of Laura E. Gossage, Atlanta, Georgia. Approximate dimensions: club h. 26.75", dia. 10".
• PAIR OF WOOD, STONE AND HIDE WAR CLUBS13
  PAIR OF WOOD, STONE AND HIDE WAR CLUBS13 x 4 1/2 in. Condition Each with minor wear and losses to the wooden ends.Not withstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.
• (4) War clubs to include gun stock club
  (4) War clubs to include gun stock club with cast iron spike through haft, in engraved arrow, figure and bow decoration and rivet decoration, 25 3/4"L, a New Caledonian male phallus Kanak war club, 29"L, what appears to be a Polynesian Tongan war club in limited decoration, 25"L along with a Maori war club with carved face at end of handle, 12 1/2"L
• ANTIQUE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIFACT
  ANTIQUE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIFACT COLLECTION. A museum collection of 60 plus pieces of antique Native American artifacts, including; approx. 42 carved stone arrow and spear heads, catlinite pipe, 1 stone war club, 22 carved stone club heads and more.
• ANTIQUE NATIVE AMERICAN WAR CLUB. Ca.
  ANTIQUE NATIVE AMERICAN WAR CLUB. Ca. 1900 war club, wooden handle with leather stone attachment, red painted designs, horsehair and leather wrapped handle, 18”L.
• Northern Plains Indian War Club, 19th/early
  Northern Plains Indian War Club, 19th/early 20th centuy with spherical stone head on a hide-covered haft with horse hair and beadwork drop (detached) length 33.75 in — 85.7 cm
• PLAINS INDIAN WAR CLUB & PIPE TOMAHAWKCondition The
  PLAINS INDIAN WAR CLUB & PIPE TOMAHAWKCondition The stone head of the war club is chipped at one end, and the leather-wrapped handle is well worn. The tomahawk is in good condition, with some general wear from handling.
• MAORI WAHAIKA WAR CLUB Maori Wahaika
  MAORI WAHAIKA WAR CLUB Maori Wahaika war club, late 19th century, the curved blade with incised decoration, above the handle having mother of pearl inlay, 16.5"l Provenance: acquired in London in the 1960's.
• (LOT OF 2) AMERICAN INDIAN EASTERN WOODLANDS
  (LOT OF 2) AMERICAN INDIAN EASTERN WOODLANDS STONE HEAD WAR CLUB (lot of 2) American Indian Eastern Woodlands stone head war club, late 19th to early 20th century, having a well formed granite head, with a fur wrapped shank and bindings, 13"l, together with a bound reed. Provenance: From the Collection of Walt Moreau, San Francisco, CA
• PLAINS INDIAN WAR CLUBPlains Indian
  PLAINS INDIAN WAR CLUBPlains Indian war club having a double cone stone head with lead tracings, a hide wrapped wood handle and beaded "tail" (now detached); measures approximately 29" long (with tail), club only 14" long.
• A LOUIS XIV MAP, "L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE,"
  A LOUIS XIV MAP, "L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE," HUBERT JA...A LOUIS XIV MAP, "L'Amerique Septentrionale," HUBERT JAILLOT, PARIS, 1696, hand colored engraving on paper, "Divisée en ses principals parties, ou sont distingués les uns des autres Les Estats suivant qu'ils appartiennent présentement aux François, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois, Danois, Hollandos, Tirée des Relations de toutes ces nations. Par le Sr. Sanson geographe ordinair du Roy.," Présentée à Monseigneur Dauphin, parson tres humble tres obeissant, et tres fidele serviteur, Hubert Jaillot.," the title cartouche centering a royal crown over the Coat of Arms of the Dauphin of France within baroque scrolls, fruits, and perched parrot and cockatiel, the sides upheld by two terminal figures modeled after John Smith's earlier published 1612 depictions of Powhatan in his court lodge; the female draped in beads holds a recurve bow and arrow, the male with a bead and feather collar and sash upholds a war club, below a grotesque issued from feathery mustached nostrils flanked by an armadillo and bobcat, the mile chart with seated figures of war, one shown in the reverse and the other wearing a shield and shell arm and leg bands centering fruiting cornucopia, the border with scale of sea leagues and half leagues and the map overlaid with latitude and longitude lines. 22 1/2" x 34 1/2" Note: Created for use by the Monseigneur le Dauphin, son to King Louis XIV, after Nicolas Sanson's original map. This edition uniquely points out the seat of the Powhatan Confederation located in Virginia. Jaillot spells the seat of Algonquin power "Pou'hatan" in French and places it on a small arm of the York River, just north of the labeled "Powhatan" river. This is likely the site of "Werowocomoco." The French cartographer acknowledges the indigenous culture before the English territorial claim of the Tidewater Region of colonial Virginia. The seat of "Pou'hatan" does not appear on Sanson's earlier version of this map, and is an update that Jaillot added. The Tidewater Region of Virginia was an area destined to become a crucial land space in early colonial American history. The Dauphin died before inheriting the throne, just fifteen years after this map was published. A rapidly changing "New World" is drawn incorrectly with an island California and unfinished northeastern coastline. Condition: Some creasing and mild tear at margins near neat line, mild fading of hand color, some toning and foxing, but overall in good to very good condition, wear commensurate with age and use. Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS." NO REFUNDS will be issued based on condition.
• EARLY 1800 SOUTHERN PLAINS BURL HEAD
  EARLY 1800 SOUTHERN PLAINS BURL HEAD WAR CLUBThis is a fantastic early 1800s burl ball head war club in an enormous size from the Southern Plains region. The war club is carved from a single piece of wood with the very large head being carved from the root burl. The handle is expertly carved with a tapered gripping area with pommel end having a triangular taper to a cylindrical end. The head is noted by the collector as having an animal shape, which is indiscernible. The entire piece has nice honest patina,with crackling to the outside from honest age and deep color. Provenance: From a private Native American collection in Paris, France. Measures overall 22.5"L with the head being approx. 11.5" x 6" x 5.5".*
• RARE BLACKFEET QUILLED & BEADED BUFFALO
  RARE BLACKFEET QUILLED & BEADED BUFFALO HEADDRESSThis is an incredible, large buffalo horn headdress with polychrome painted buffalo trailer along with beadwork and quillwork from the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. This is truly a large, heavy head dress / headdress that features a long polychrome painted and decorated buffalo / bison hide trailer that hangs off the back of the headdress. The headdress is comprised of an Indian tanned buffalo hide cap that hangs down the back around 18-inches along with two full, polished buffalo horns affixed to the cap with thick buffalo hide lacing. There is a beautiful beadwork blue brow band showing a wonderful hour-glass or snake pattern done with early glass trade seed beads in cobalt and sky padre light blue. There are several drops of old trade clothe, beads, trade ribbons and two drops of what appears to be human hair, but could be horse tail hair tied onto the side temple areas along with older brass sewing thimbles. The inside of the cap bonnet is lined with old trade clothe. The buffalo hide trailer is attached to the cap with thick hide lacing and measures 58 inches in length by about 12 inches in width. It is artfully decorated with painted designs and symbols, strips of hide lacing and twenty-four large tarnished metal trade sleigh bells / large hawk bells. The painted symbols are in a wonderful Blackfeet / Blackfoot fashion, said to represent the owner’s war exploits and life experiences. There is a pictorial scene with a Blackfoot warrior holding a tomahawk and what appears to be a gunstock war club and a horse. The horse scene has a unique object painted in front of the horse that is noted by such scholars such as John Ewers wrote about it being some kind of “thing” or mystery object. Some theorize that it could be a medicine bundle, but mainly nicknamed the “thing”. It appears in other documented Blackfeet rock art pictographs and paintings with horses, similar to how it appears here in the scene with the horse. There are other painted symbols and designs which are documented as Blackfoot in colors of yellow, green, red and blue. The artwork is extensive and masterfully done. Above the beaded brown band shows large solid brass concho button spots in a long row on trade clothe muslin. The tip of each polished buffalo horn shows four Indian tanned hide fringes wrapped in porcupine quill, quillwork with natural ocher / ochre mineral pigment dyes having small rolled tin jingle dangle cones and brass covered metal hawk trade bells. The headdress was noted by the Ted Levy collection as being from the Indian Wars era of the 19th Century, circa 1880, please examine the pictures and preview the piece in order to deduce your own representation of age and origin. The headdress or war bonnet shows a combination of early 19th Century materials and manufacture with some later repairs or additions, but overall a historic, large and impressive war bonnet headdress. Some stiffening to the back hide, the top is soft, little to no hair loss to the hide, only slight bead and quill loss, some fading to the paint, but overall the piece displays beautifully. Taylor and Levy noted the piece was likely used later on, on the Indian Reservations for ceremonial purposes. Measures overall 68”L from the tip of the horn to the bottom of the trailer and about 18 inches wide. Total weight of 4 lbs. 10 oz.
• CA. 1775- RARE LENAPE BALL HEAD WAR
  CA. 1775- RARE LENAPE BALL HEAD WAR CLUBThis is a phenomenally rare and historically important early Lenape-Delaware ball head war club collected in the late-1700s in Coshocton, Ohio. This is rare and early piece was carved from one piece of wood, the root burl of a tree with burl ball head. As on many early Eastern Woodlands Indian examples, there is a minimum of brass trade tack decorations with a few simple circles on one side and a large “X” on the other side. The large “X” symbol is documented as a Native American symbol for war. The club has several carved symbols on the right side of the club below the tacking which appears to tell a story, possibly of a Warrior’s exploits. Many of these Lenape-Delaware symbols have been verified and compared to the Project Gutenberg book of Early Lenape-Delaware Legends and symbols by Daniel Brinton. The war club is from circa 1775-1800 and has a nice, deep patina over the entire piece with small pierced holes that likely held a drop of feathers or beads at one time. The piece shows an impressive carved gunstock pattern. The gripping area has wear to the finish and there are some possibly kill-tally marks carved into the club as well. This club was reportedly taken from a slain Lenape warrior at the 1781 Broadhead Massacre at Coshocton, Ohio by one of the soldiers, who’s family many generations later donated it to the White Eyes Township Historical Society. Then the historical society was disbanded and the building and property were sold to the Amish, a noted Indiana Native weapons collector acquired the club. This is truly one of the most important ball heads currently offered for sale in well preserved condition with beautiful display. Measures 26 ½ inches in length and the ball head is 4 inches long.*
• 19TH C. INDIAN WOOD RELIEF PANEL OF
  19TH C. INDIAN WOOD RELIEF PANEL OF VISHNUSouth Asia, India, ca. 19th century CE. An impressive, hand-carved wood relief panel with openwork design depicting a ceremonial procession surrounding the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu. Capped with a conical headdress, Vishnu sits in half lotus position at the center of the piece and holds out two hands with the fingers of his right pointing upwards and the fingers of his left downwards. His other two arms hold war clubs. The tranquil deity sits atop his mount Garuda, the eagle, and is flanked by his consorts, Lakshmi and Bhumi. Further from the center, two men walk towards the deity, each with a large bird wearing a leash behind them. The background is filled with swirling vegetal designs and the entirety of the narrative is enveloped by a lovely geometric motif border. Size: 31.125" W x 8.625" H (79.1 cm x 21.9 cm) Provenance: ex-private Boulder, Colorado, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #138238 Condition: Repairs to lower border with 2 areas of metal backing on verso. Fissures and losses to lower corner areas. Loss to upper left side. Some minor chips and nicks to peripheries. A few nicks and abrasions to relief, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent with lovely patina. Suspension wire on verso.
• 18TH C. NATIVE AMERICAN ALGONQUIN WOOD
  18TH C. NATIVE AMERICAN ALGONQUIN WOOD / IRON WAR CLUBNative American, Midwestern United States, Indiana, Eastern Woodland, likely Algonquin people, ca. late 18th to 19th century CE. This deadly weapon is a gunstock type of war club with an iron spike, leather straps, and a tooth totem attached to the top. The name stems from the shape of the wood, curved like the butt end or back stock of a rifle, with a piercing through the "barrel" end for suspension with a cord. The thick wooden block end could certainly deal some blunt force trauma, while the long iron spike set into the elbow could punch and stab. The spike likely came from railroad construction or trade- the introduction of European iron and steel helped propel the popularity of these types of clubs. The mid shaft and spike are wrapped with leather bands, and a large canine tooth tied to the elbow may have added fierce power and strength to the warrior. The upper face has a label that states this piece was purportedly collected in Indiana in 1927. Size: 22" L x 7.5" W (55.9 cm x 19 cm) Provenance: ex-Dr. Goldberg collection, Virginia, USA, before 2000 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm. Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping. #170118 Condition: Stable pressure fissures throughout the wood. Old and inactive insect bore holes. Leather is intact and very good. Some pitting and russet patina on spike. Descriptive label on wood surface with find site.
• ENORMOUS 20TH C. SHIPIBO POLYCHROME
  ENORMOUS 20TH C. SHIPIBO POLYCHROME PORTRAIT JARSouth American, Upper / Western Amazon Basin, Ucayali River, Peru, Shipibo people, ca. mid-20th century CE. Wow! A marvelous pottery portrait jar of a tremendous size featuring a dramatically wide hip, a sloped shoulder, a conical neck, and a flared rim, all sitting upon a narrow base. Quite captivating, the neck of the vessel presents the visage of an individual, displaying petite eyes with round pupils, a pinched nose with delineated nostrils, and a slender mouth held in a gentle smile, all flanked by a pair of cupped ears. A lovely burnt orange slip envelops the area below the hip as well as the interior rim, while the exterior of the shoulder, neck and rim are adorned with a mesmerizing, mazelike design of black and orange painted interlocking motifs atop a creamy beige ground. Size: 20.5" Diameter x 19" H (52.1 cm x 48.3 cm) These symmetrical geometric patterns, known as kene, are not only said to represent the paths of life, but are also inspired by nature, such as in the coils and scaled skin of a snake, which are also symbolic of the coiling of the pottery as the vessel is constructed. Layers of zigzag patterns arch below the jutting chin of the face, possibly representing a beard or collar necklace, while black resin embellishes the interior walls of the jar. The Shipibo-Conibo tribe are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Shipibo vessels are visually distinctive and instantly recognizable, the result of a tempering technology that is millennia old, allowing for some of the largest, thinnest-walled vessels produced in the New World. These vessels are made by Shipibo women in a style that grew out of the pre-Columbian Marajoara. The chomo is a vessel that can be placed into a hole dug in the ground to store and ferment masato, a ceremonial beverage used in ceremonies like the Joni-Ati, an initiation ritual to mark a girl's passage into womanhood. The Shipibo, unlike many other Amazonian tribes, are matriarchal. This massive vessel would have played an important role in the life of these fascinating people. Shipibo art generally appears in multimedia enveloped in elaborate geometric designs in a baroque trilevel style. Decorated first, the upper level is comprised of broad form lines in rectilinear (pontequeneya) and curvilinear (mayaqueneya) patterns. Artists are inspired by covering her eyelids with the leaves of an iponquene plant - named after a small but complexly patterned armor-headed catfish - in an effort to absorb their intricate tracery, as well as via dreams and visions. The original designs were from hallucinogenic visions of shamans using ayahuasca (or nishi) and strong tobacco. According to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, "In mythic times these patterns covered everything - the sky, trees, huts, people, animals, et cetera - in a continuous tissue of design. But due to the misdeeds of failed protohumans, this idyllic union ruptured and differentiated into floating, superimposed planes: Nete shama (the sky world), Mai (the earth world), and Jene shama (the subaquatic underworld). Simultaneously, periodicity (day and night, or time), mortality, and speciation appeared. And the geometric lineaments ruptured. Now they appear only on specific design fields, such as the upper parts of fineware pottery, people's faces, or the blades of war clubs. All these designs are pre-existent; the artist has only to grasp and fix them in her mind (shinan picotai, 'the thoughts emerge'), lay them over the design field, and cut where they match that field, letting the rest of the design fade back into invisibility. The visible design remains as a window into the vast reticulate intricacy of the universe." Cf. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, 26/3329 and 23/9608. Provenance: private Hidden Valley Lake, California, USA collection; ex-Clark's Auction Company, Scotts Valley, California, USA, "CA Estates Native American & WWII Collections," April 26th, 2020, lot 133 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm. Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping. #170428 Condition: Expected nicks, abrasions, scratches, and pitting in some areas, commensurate with age. Loss to some black resin on interior. A few scattered areas of minor peeling to surface. Otherwise, intact and excellent with impressive remaining pigments and nice preservation of painted detail.
• NATIVE AMERICAN OJIBWA BALL WAR CLUB
  NATIVE AMERICAN OJIBWA BALL WAR CLUB W/ IRON SPIKE**First Time At Auction** Native American, Midwestern / Northeastern United States, Great Lakes region, Ojibwa / Algonquin / Iroquois, ca. 19th century CE. A hefty ball headed club carved from a single piece of wood, with an iron stud - ideal for both war and carrying as a symbol of strength or prestige. The ball is carved into a anthropomorphic face, the iron spike protruding from the mouth like a deadly tongue, although rounded at the tip - this may have been sharpened or purposefully left dull to inflict more pain. The thick handle is carved with abstract geometric and face motifs. This type of weapon was used by tribes in the northern woodlands region and were used for warfare, ritualistic death / execution, and duels. Size: 20.5" L x 7.25" W (52.1 cm x 18.4 cm) Please note this item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States. IMPORTANT NOTE: This item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States. Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #160493 Condition: Stable striations on ball head and pressure fissures. Minor nicks and abrasions to wood, otherwise intact and very good. Iron has russet patina and wood is lustrous and smooth.
• WAR CLUBWar club, includes a subtle
  WAR CLUBWar club, includes a subtle relief resembling a snake or other long animal along almost the whole length of the club, and a geometric design (perhaps of stylized fish) at the center of the club. Similar item gifted by Louis Pierre Ledoux in 1936 to the American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9059) Locale: Lower Sepik River Country: Papua New Guinea Date: 1936 or earlier Material: Wood Dimensions: H 5' 11" x W 2" Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection Similar items: American Museum of Natural History - Division of Anthropology (80/9059) https://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/common/image_dup.cfm?catno=80%2E0%2F%209059 Giraudeau Tours 2017, attributed to the 1934-36 La Korrigane expedition to the Sepik. https://www.artkhade.com/object/p4q237Gj
• STANDING BRONZE INDIAN CHIEF CARRYING
  STANDING BRONZE INDIAN CHIEF CARRYING SHIELD & WAR CLUB SCULPTURE SIGNED KAUBA: Casting appears to have significant age, possibly by Carl Kauba, signed & marked Geschutz, #6254 CONDITION: War club has slight bend.
• CIRCA 1900 PENOBSCOT NATIVE AMERICAN
  CIRCA 1900 PENOBSCOT NATIVE AMERICAN WAR CLUB: Maine Native American Indian carved figural birch root war club, featuring a wolf's head. Some bark remaining. Handle has a chip-carved foliate design with a figure in center of wreath. Approx. 27.5'' l x 10.5'' w. CONDITION: Loss at tips of club consistent with age and use. Nail at end of handle for display.
• 19TH C. CHIPPEWA SPIKE WAR CLUB: Ball
  19TH C. CHIPPEWA SPIKE WAR CLUB: Ball head war club with spike, attributed to the Chippewa Native American Indians of Wisconsin, of solid root burl. Tapered handle adorned with brass trade tacks. Approx. 18.75'' l x 7'' l x 2.5'' w. CONDITION: Wear commensurate with age and use.