Clubs and Pipes

Description

1. Wooden club, Oto or Omaha. Decorated with brass nails, a skunk tail, and strings with human teeth attached. Reproduced as a woodcut in Travels in the Interior of North America. 2-7. Pipe bowls and stems, Sioux. Bowls carved of catlinite, two decoratively inlaid with lead. Numbers 4 and 5 were reproduced in Tableau 48 of the aquatints, the remainder as woodcuts in Travels in the Interior of North America. Numbers 4, 6, and 7 now in the Linden-Museum collection. 8. Club. Carved of catlinite with lead inlay; intended for show or ceremonial use rather than battle. Now in the Linden-Museum collection, attributed to the Mandans. 9. Club. Stone head, wood and rawhide haft. 10. Wooden club, Ponca. See Plate 345. Reproduced as a woodcut in Travels in the Interior of North America.