Subject: sachem war chief

Culture: Iroquois & allied Indians

Setting: Great Lakes/Ohio Valley 18th - early 19thc

Object: ball-headed club

Fort Pitt Museum *

"Ball War Club, late 18th or early 19th century Attributed to the Caughnawaga Mohawk.

The words 'Th Youngs' are engraved on the handle. Young was probably a Native American."

* Royal Ontario Museum > Gallery of Canada -- First Peoples

"Ball-headed club"

Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas *

"Ball-headed Club Western Great Lakes,

late 18th century Wood, metal"

* DR Good

Yorktown Victory Center *

"Northeast Woodlands ball-headed club, [top]

American, eighteenth century, wood. Originally used as weapons,

clubs such as this took on ceremonial and symbolic functions during the colonial era."

* Royal Ontario Museum > Canada -- First Peoples

"Massue à tête arrondie Joseph Brant, Mohawk

Bois, ruban, plumes XVIIIe siècle ..."

Royal Ontario Museum > Canada -- First Peoples *

"Massue en bois à tête arrondie, George H.M. Johnson, prop.

Mohawk, mi-XIXe siècle Six Nations of the Grand River ..."